Review: Lords of the Deep.
Caught this on Tubi. This was one of several underwater creature movies released in 1989, along with The Abyss, The Rift, Leviathan and Deepstar Six. It went into production after The Abyss, but because it's a Roger Corman produced quickie, it was released first.
The premise is that, in the future, humans have wrecked the surface of Earth, so they've set up research stations underwater to see if man can live in the oceans. One station encounters a strange species that seems to attack them but eventually turn out to be benign aliens. Turns out the company that owns the station wants the aliens and the scientist who figured them out dead. The commander of the station is in on it.
This movie sucks. The acting sucks, the writing sucks, the production design sucks, the special effects suck, the direction sucks and even as a Corman powered rip off of The Abyss, the story sucks. Priscilla Barnes and Bradford Dillman show up and it says something I found myself embarrassed for and by both of them throughout this film..My guess is they saw the script, realized what an absolute trainwreck they were in, needed the cash and decided to just show up and do whatever the hell they felt like with their performances. At least I hope that's what happened. If someone actually directed them into the performances they deliver here, that person should be banned from the industry.
The entire movie is boring and joyless. The pacing is leaden and nothing really happens until the end and even then the explanation of what's going on with the aliens isn't worth the effort. This isn't " so bad it's good" b movie trash. It's just bad. It's not fun. It ends with a half baked ecological warning punctuated by crappy visuals. Every copy of this movie in existence could be erased and not only would no one really notice, the human experience might actually be noticably improved as a consequence.
Apparently, Mystery Science Theater 3000 tackled it. If so, I can practically guarantee that episode represents the only time this utter disaster was even remotely watchable.
Zero out of ***** stars. I didn't even pay to watch this and I still want everyone involved to pay me the price of a streaming rental to compensate for the 77 minutes that got flushed down the commode watching this mess.
Caught this on Tubi. This was one of several underwater creature movies released in 1989, along with The Abyss, The Rift, Leviathan and Deepstar Six. It went into production after The Abyss, but because it's a Roger Corman produced quickie, it was released first.
The premise is that, in the future, humans have wrecked the surface of Earth, so they've set up research stations underwater to see if man can live in the oceans. One station encounters a strange species that seems to attack them but eventually turn out to be benign aliens. Turns out the company that owns the station wants the aliens and the scientist who figured them out dead. The commander of the station is in on it.
This movie sucks. The acting sucks, the writing sucks, the production design sucks, the special effects suck, the direction sucks and even as a Corman powered rip off of The Abyss, the story sucks. Priscilla Barnes and Bradford Dillman show up and it says something I found myself embarrassed for and by both of them throughout this film..My guess is they saw the script, realized what an absolute trainwreck they were in, needed the cash and decided to just show up and do whatever the hell they felt like with their performances. At least I hope that's what happened. If someone actually directed them into the performances they deliver here, that person should be banned from the industry.
The entire movie is boring and joyless. The pacing is leaden and nothing really happens until the end and even then the explanation of what's going on with the aliens isn't worth the effort. This isn't " so bad it's good" b movie trash. It's just bad. It's not fun. It ends with a half baked ecological warning punctuated by crappy visuals. Every copy of this movie in existence could be erased and not only would no one really notice, the human experience might actually be noticably improved as a consequence.
Apparently, Mystery Science Theater 3000 tackled it. If so, I can practically guarantee that episode represents the only time this utter disaster was even remotely watchable.
Zero out of ***** stars. I didn't even pay to watch this and I still want everyone involved to pay me the price of a streaming rental to compensate for the 77 minutes that got flushed down the commode watching this mess.