i saw this movie a long time ago, but i definitely remember loving it. sleek and stylish underwater sci-fi flick with some really great performances. back before james cameron turned into a turd.

James Cameron gave me an enjoyable ride to the bottom of the ocean in the special edition of The Abyss in which an underwater oil rig crew is tasked to look for survivors in a sunk nuclear submarine. While the film is quite long, and the message at the end lacks all subtlety, having little to do with the film itself, the rest of the movie was filled with clever special effects, a strong story line and an atmosphere that felt cramped and timeless, just as it should be underwater.

It's really really good up until the end where it turned into children theater.. Other than that, quite a good watch, not a boring second (except the end). I watched the DC by the way, i read that the original ending is a bit different.

Pretty cheesy but pretty fun.

2/5

James Cameron gave me an enjoyable ride to the bottom of the ocean in the special edition of The Abyss in which an underwater oil rig crew is tasked to look for survivors in a sunk nuclear submarine. While the film is quite long, and the message at the end lacks all subtlety, having little to do with the film itself, the rest of the movie was filled with clever special effects, a strong story line and an atmosphere that felt cramped and timeless, just as it should be underwater.

good story line and good special effects.

When I saw this as a teenager in 1989 the special effects were mind-blowing and the movie (in 70 mm in a huge cinema theatre) was in-fucking-credible. Now, the story was stupid, the actors and characters flat, the special effects look cheap, and the "special extended version" that I saw was asinine in its attempts at philosophically judging humanity. My six year old son thought it was OK but nothing special - he's looking forward to Cameron's Avatar instead...

My usual complaint with James Cameron is that he is all 'action', but little substance, he forgets about things like emotion and atmosphere. But after watching this slow moving, sentimental heap of shit I think that I know why he usually sticks to action first, everything else later. Really James, the "evil" Military trick? Really James a heap of electronic jellyfish in Marvin the Martian costumes threatening to make waves?

People shouldn't leave James Cameron alone with a pen for a time long enough to write this drivel. Impressive effects for its time, hence the awards, but there's not much else to this inordinately dull "action sci-fi" movie.