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The Abyss (1989)
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Two former married oil engineers are tasked with helping the US naval superiors during a highly secretive recovery process, each doing a good job. However, a nuclear ambush was set up and the submarine sank mysteriously into the deepest waters. Immediately afterwards, the search for the submarine begins with a civilian crew charged with searching for the sunken submarine to find the missing and rescue them, but they will face some difficulties through the emergence of a strange species and may cause a certain risk.
Two former married oil engineers are tasked with helping the US naval superiors during a highly secretive recovery process, each doing a good job. However, a nuclear ambush was set up and the submarine sank mysteriously into the deepest waters. Immediately afterwards, the search for the submarine begins with a civilian crew charged with searching for the sunken submarine to find the missing and rescue them, but they will face some difficulties through the emergence of a strange species and may cause a certain risk.
Actors:
Ken Jenkins,
Michael Beach,
Chris Elliott,
Mikhail Gorbachev,
Joseph C. Nemec III,
J. Kenneth Campbell,
Christopher Murphy
Ken Jenkins
28 August 1940, Dayton, Ohio, USA
Michael Beach
30 October 1963, Roxbury, Massachusetts, USA
Chris Elliott
31 May 1960, New York City, New York, USA
Mikhail Gorbachev
2 March 1931, Privolnoye, North Caucasus Krai, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Stavropol Krai, Russia]
Joseph C. Nemec III
1948, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
J. Kenneth Campbell
22 July 1947, Flushing, New York, USA
Christopher Murphy
16 February 1963
Country:
United States
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Ken Jenkins
28 August 1940, Dayton, Ohio, USA
Michael Beach
30 October 1963, Roxbury, Massachusetts, USA
Chris Elliott
31 May 1960, New York City, New York, USA
Mikhail Gorbachev
2 March 1931, Privolnoye, North Caucasus Krai, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Stavropol Krai, Russia]
Joseph C. Nemec III
1948, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
J. Kenneth Campbell
22 July 1947, Flushing, New York, USA
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June 06, 2007
What ultimately saves the film are its extraordinary sets and phenomenal Oscar-winning visual effects.December 14, 2009
One need not be a Cameron acolyte to recognise that The Abyss has aged better than some of the films that outshone it back in the day.
Chicago Reader
June 06, 2007
The attempt to extract the essences of several genres (cold-war submarine thriller, love story, Disney fantasy, pseudomystical SF in the Spielberg mode) and mix them together ultimately leads to giddy incoherence.
ColeSmithey.com
May 11, 2007
Great blending of spectacle and drama.February 09, 2006
This overlong concoction is scuppered by dire dialogue, histrionic performances and maudlin sentimentality.August 04, 2010
The Abyss gains in some ways from its own Achilles heels, in a way most movies don't... its formal technique, its reckless obsessiveness, and its gutsy emotionalism are what I can't stop turning over in my mind.March 10, 2015
Colossally ambitious, this logistically boggling and technically brilliant film from writer-director James Cameron is a visual tour de force, featuring overall, the greatest underwater sequences ever seen on film.August 26, 2009
The movie was a bear to make and it shows onscreen, parading around a series of mesmerizing set-pieces that look deliciously hard-earned in ways our current CG-drenched filmmaking climate never allows.
Rolling Stone
May 12, 2001
Anyone looking for a discouraging word about this stupendously exciting and emotionally engulfing film should read no further. The Abyss confirms James Cameron as a world-class filmmaker.September 19, 2007
As a follow-up to Cameron's great sci-fi Aliens, The Abyss is too verbose for an actioner and the special effects, striking as they are, are not well integrated into the narrative, but it's still worth seeing.June 19, 2008
A firstrate underwater suspenser with an otherworldly twist, The Abyss suffers from a payoff unworthy of its buildup.January 01, 2000
I'd sooner believe that Moby Dick could swim up the drainpipe.