Deep Rising

A group of heavily armed hijackers board a luxury ocean liner in the South Pacific Ocean to loot it, only to do battle with a series of large-sized, tentacled, man-eating sea creatures who have taken over the ship first.

• Director: Stephen Sommers
• Genre:Action / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller
• Runtime:102 minutes

Cast

Treat Williams : Finnegan
Famke Janssen : Trillian
Anthony Heald : Simon Canton
Kevin J. O’Connor: Joey Pantucci
Wes Studi : Hanover

The film opens with a title card informing the viewer of the massive chasms at the bottom of the South China Sea and the unexplained disappearance of numerous vessels in the area throughout the centuries.

The story opens on a dual-engine boat being piloted in these waters through a storm on by John Finnegan (Treat Williams), a freelance rogue chartered to transport a group of suspicious men led by Hanover (Wes Studi) and a cargo to a specific destination in ‘the middle of nowhere, squared’. Despite Finnegan’s determination, Joey Pantucci (Kevin J. O’Connor) and his girlfriend Leila (Una Damon) are unhappy with the situation, especially after Joey discovers that the “cargo” consists of torpedoes.

Out in the open sea is an ocean liner named the Argonautica, a luxurious vessel on its maiden voyage with a full passenger list of wealthy patrons. The ship is the dream and brainchild of the wealthy and petulant Simon Canton (Anthony Heald) and is under the watchful eye of the seasoned Captain Atherton (Derrick O’Connor). Mingling among the guests and taking full opportunity of the facilities and entertainment is Trillian St. James, (Famke Janssen) a glamorous thief who pilfers Atherton’s wallet by bumping into him. During Canton’s christening address to the passengers in the ballroom, Trillian utilizes Atherton’s pass card to access the ship’s vault and sample the valuable jewelry, but is interrupted by Canton, Atherton and their stewards; alerted to her presence with Interpol documents, they have awaited her intrusion. Because the brig is incomplete, she is locked in a food storage room.

As the party continues, an unknown person sabotages the Argonautica’s entire operations mainframe and destroys the control disks before departing. While Atherton and Canton watch the ship’s systems shut down, the sonar operator detects a massive signal approaching the ship from over 160 meters below at 31 knots. The signal source closes on the vessel and the entire ship comes to a violent stop, knocking a speed lifeboat loose and causing massive damage and multiple injuries to the passengers, who begin to run for the lifeboats in a panic. A frightened woman locks herself in a unisex bathroom and is pulled down the toilet by an unseen force. Read more

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