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An obvious attempt to cash in on the success of Jaws, this 1977 thriller was also based on a best-seller by Peter Benchley, and it features a memorable performance by Robert Shaw (the doomed shark hunter in Jaws) in one of the last roles of his career. Looking very tanned and healthy, Nick Nolte and Jacqueline Bisset play a young couple enjoying a tropical vacation who discover a glass ampoule while scuba diving off the coast of Bermuda. It takes a seasoned treasure hunter (Shaw) to identify the ampoule as part of a valuable shipment of World War II morphine lost at sea, coincidentally, atop the even greater treasure of a sunken Spanish galleon. Thus begins a race for drugs and treasure pitting Nolte, Bisset and Shaw against a ruthless drug lord (Louis Gossett Jr) who will do anything--even resort to Haitian voodoo--to get what he wants. It's all rather contrived and exploitative (after all, the movie's best known for Bisset's wet T-shirt scuba-dive), but as escapist entertainment goes it's got some exciting highlights including a moray eel that attacks on cue and... well, uh, Jacqueline Bisset in a wet T-shirt. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Peter Benchley wrote Jaws and Deep both ,but this book has a subtle morality which seeped both the taut script and made the scuba diving adventure, which Peter Yates moulded from the best-selling book a humane drama cum a thriller .
Set off the boisterous and charming beaches of Bermuda ,a scuba diving couple played by Nick Nolte as a blond frisky yankee and his gorgeous wife Jacqueline Bisset are in search of an underwater bounty treasure sunk in a french 17th century ship, and they find not one but two treasures to mark a scalding adventure ,one is a world war 2 ship stashed with morphine,a drugs haven and the other an eighteenth century french royal merchantman conveying crown jewels .
They of course immediately are endangered by local thugs headed by Louis Goussett,who wants both the treasures and has no qualms to acquire either from indulging in rape to murder to vodoo ,but here comes the moral innuendo in the form of an excellent performer played with gusto by Robert Shaw -a conscientious metaphor for the pure,deep blue, infinite sea who is out to defeat the immoral yet he is no saint himself and this makes him credible as he is not depicted as a saint but a flawed human being.
The atmosphere created on land and on the yacht is both turgig and chilling ,and yet humoresque and the superb acting by all is convincing to say the least ,whether the conniving villains who despite being the Jamaican stereotypes are rather convincing.
The underwater sequences with sharks infesting the vessels and the pyrotechnics are spectacular and have never been seen after this endeavour to the same dextrous display of technical finesse .
Yates was fortunate to have a great talent Robert Shaw who gives this tale of adventure a raw but definitive moral edge and Bisset looks glamour galore which can hail any ship to a halt in any high sea from bermuda to bombay .
The underwater adventure scores with a deadly divine morality which is heart warming and the stunts are irrevocable which can never be doubled again in the present Hollywood .
Set off the boisterous and charming beaches of Bermuda ,a scuba diving couple played by Nick Nolte as a blond frisky yankee and his gorgeous wife Jacqueline Bisset are in search of an underwater bounty treasure sunk in a french 17th century ship, and they find not one but two treasures to mark a scalding adventure ,one is a world war 2 ship stashed with morphine,a drugs haven and the other an eighteenth century french royal merchantman conveying crown jewels .
They of course immediately are endangered by local thugs headed by Louis Goussett,who wants both the treasures and has no qualms to acquire either from indulging in rape to murder to vodoo ,but here comes the moral innuendo in the form of an excellent performer played with gusto by Robert Shaw -a conscientious metaphor for the pure,deep blue, infinite sea who is out to defeat the immoral yet he is no saint himself and this makes him credible as he is not depicted as a saint but a flawed human being.
The atmosphere created on land and on the yacht is both turgig and chilling ,and yet humoresque and the superb acting by all is convincing to say the least ,whether the conniving villains who despite being the Jamaican stereotypes are rather convincing.
The underwater sequences with sharks infesting the vessels and the pyrotechnics are spectacular and have never been seen after this endeavour to the same dextrous display of technical finesse .
Yates was fortunate to have a great talent Robert Shaw who gives this tale of adventure a raw but definitive moral edge and Bisset looks glamour galore which can hail any ship to a halt in any high sea from bermuda to bombay .
The underwater adventure scores with a deadly divine morality which is heart warming and the stunts are irrevocable which can never be doubled again in the present Hollywood .
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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The Deep is one of those sure-fire box-office hits that has all the right elements put together well enough to entertain but which still manages to seem just a little flat despite all the money and talent onscreen. There's Robert Shaw and novelist Robert Benchley back in business together after Jaws, Nick Nolte back in the days when he was seen as a wild man rather than a downright eccentric one, a sensuous John Barry score and, of course, Jacqueline Bisset in that wet t-shirt. There's no Great White on this voyage, though there is a school of smaller sharks in one sequence as well as a particularly nasty giant eel, but this time it's treasure that Shaw's hunting with a pair of unlikely companions in the waters off Bermuda. The Maguffin itself isn't a bad one either, with two tourists stumbling on not one but two shipwrecks: a Spanish galleon that lies underneath a WW2 supply ship full of morphine that Louis Gosset's local crime kingpin wants for himself. The underwater footage, mostly shot on sets constructed on the seabed, impresses but it's never quite as exciting as it could be and, as if taking its lead from the underwater scenes, the pace is never quite as urgent as it could be for a thriller. Sadly a lot of the blame for that seems to rest with the erratic Peter Yates' direction, which gets the job done professionally enough but could do with a bit more fire to it. It's enjoyable enough but it's one of those films that seem better after you've seen it than it does while you're watching it.
Columbia's original Blu Ray disc boasts some (but sadly not all) interesting deleted and extended scenes from the longer TV version restored to their original 2.35:1 ratio, mostly adding character background but including the original WW2 prologue where Cameron Mitchell's ship sinks in a storm and, in a neat touch, Robert Shaw and Eli Wallach's sons play their younger selves along with a below decks cameo from Benchley. There's also a vintage 50-minute TV special about the making of the film hosted by Shaw that details just what an impressive feat it was shooting the film's underwater scenes largely on location with a cast and crew initially inexperienced in diving. The quality isn't great but it's more than acceptable, with the widescreen transfer of the film itself a considerable improvement on the old extras-free DVD. But beware of Image's recent US Blu Ray release, which drops all of the extras and only contains the film.
Columbia's original Blu Ray disc boasts some (but sadly not all) interesting deleted and extended scenes from the longer TV version restored to their original 2.35:1 ratio, mostly adding character background but including the original WW2 prologue where Cameron Mitchell's ship sinks in a storm and, in a neat touch, Robert Shaw and Eli Wallach's sons play their younger selves along with a below decks cameo from Benchley. There's also a vintage 50-minute TV special about the making of the film hosted by Shaw that details just what an impressive feat it was shooting the film's underwater scenes largely on location with a cast and crew initially inexperienced in diving. The quality isn't great but it's more than acceptable, with the widescreen transfer of the film itself a considerable improvement on the old extras-free DVD. But beware of Image's recent US Blu Ray release, which drops all of the extras and only contains the film.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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I just happened to catch this film by chance on TV a few years ago and was glued all the way through - from the dreamy opening sequence to the climactic end encounter, with sharks and baddies swarming around the heroes.
Made on the back of the success of Jaws, this is an often underrated and far superior tale to its predecessor - skillfully told on-screen, over the course of nearly two unhurried and totally absorbing hours; without ever dragging or feeling over-long in any way. The look of the movie may appear a little "retro" now, over 30 years after it was made; but it has outlasted so many of its comtemporaries, with a story that could be set at any point in time from the late sixties onwards, which would make a more than half-decent remake today.
Jacqueline Bisset's character (just forget the T-shirt for 5 minutes, will you?) serves as way more than cliched eye-candy-cum-damsel-in-distress; her feminine insight moving the story forwards at a key moment.
A finely-woven combination of adventure, romance and historical detective work makes this a film with something for everyone; to be enjoyed by singletons, couples and families alike. An absolute must-see - add it to your collection today!
Made on the back of the success of Jaws, this is an often underrated and far superior tale to its predecessor - skillfully told on-screen, over the course of nearly two unhurried and totally absorbing hours; without ever dragging or feeling over-long in any way. The look of the movie may appear a little "retro" now, over 30 years after it was made; but it has outlasted so many of its comtemporaries, with a story that could be set at any point in time from the late sixties onwards, which would make a more than half-decent remake today.
Jacqueline Bisset's character (just forget the T-shirt for 5 minutes, will you?) serves as way more than cliched eye-candy-cum-damsel-in-distress; her feminine insight moving the story forwards at a key moment.
A finely-woven combination of adventure, romance and historical detective work makes this a film with something for everyone; to be enjoyed by singletons, couples and families alike. An absolute must-see - add it to your collection today!
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great to look at,3 star film,needs full version.
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Published 12 months ago by Graham
I must have bought a duff one!
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As good as I remembered it
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A stunning film perfect on Blu Ray
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