Rating: ***
The Abyss is a perfectly watchable psychological action thriller until director James Cameron leaps into fantasy in the end. It also went through a pretty troublesome production.
The Abyss is a perfectly watchable psychological action thriller until director James Cameron leaps into fantasy in the end. It also went through a pretty troublesome production.
The film concerns a team of oil riggers located deep within the depths of the ocean in an underwater craft, coincidentally when a US submarine suddenly disappears and, of course, they start blaming the Soviets. Instead, it becomes apparent that something more mysterious could be behind it all…and to add to it, a psycho US Seal is preparing to bring everything all crashing down.
The Abyss received praise at the time for its gorgeous underwater sequences. Quite frankly, I wasn’t overly impressed. The somewhat ensemble cast does keep the film going, which includes: Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Michael Beihn.
This is not one of James Cameron’s more memorable films. He did much more popular movies with Aliens, the Terminator, T2, Titanic and much more recently Avatar. Cameron does mainly good work with sci-fi movies, and for that reason the Abyss can be viewed off as a disappointment.
The first two thirds or so of the movie go reasonably well, but the 3rd and final act mostly ruins it all (I won’t release spoilers), and goes too far, marking the Abyss as a far fetched movie.
The Abyss did just okay at the box-office; recovering it’s budget but not at all matching up to other blockbusters of the year (Batman, the Last Crusade, License to Kill and Ghostbusters 2).
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