The Abyss is mysterious, thrilling, eerie and tense, set down in the depths of the ocean. A team of research divers go down under the ocean to find a US submarine that mysteriously sank. But a hurricane leaves the researchers trapped underwater in a big underwater station. A lot of things happen—a mentally troubled Navy SEAL trying to blow the place up for no apparent, a few encounters with an alien machine think that pops up once and a while, communications are down with the outside world, and so on.
The Abyss has a problem in that it could have been told from a wider range of more characters; it is only mentioned that the US and USSR are angry at each other (the US are blaming the Russians for the loss of one of their submarines). The movie could have shown a couple scenes with the leaders of both nations arguing with each other, and more scenes of the men on the ship caught in the middle of the hurricane. Eventually, once all of the action thriller stuff is over, the movie takes a step into fantasy and we discover that there is a ‘magical’ alien kingdom living underwater, who have been watching the humans on earth and who possess better technology (like we haven't seen that before). The underwater sequences which I had heard praise for weren’t as neat as I had expected. For a big thriller like this, it had a small and inconclusive ending.
While the Abyss could have been more rounded, telling the story better, it was sufficiently entertaining as those other well-executed thrillers. James Cameron directed this thriller flick who also directed such well-known films such as The Terminator, Aliens, Titanic and Avatar.
Grade: C+
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