Directed by:
Peter YatesCinematography:
Christopher ChallisComposer:
John BarryCast:
Nick Nolte, Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Shaw, Dick Anthony Williams, Earl Maynard, Louis Gossett Jr., Eli Wallach, Robert Tessier, Peter Benchley, Bob MinorVOD (1)
Plots(1)
New Yorkers, David Sanders (Nolte) and Gail Berke (Bissett) are enjoying a much-needed vacation; while diving one day they discover the sunken wreck of a WWII freighter and unearth a gold coin as well as a mysterious glass ampule. Excited, they believe their discovery could be a long lost treasure, but they soon learn that their most valuable discovery is actually an ampule of morphine, one of thousands left behind on the medical supply ship. This discovery leads them into the hands of Henry Cloche (Louis Gossett Jr.), an extremely dangerous and powerful Haitian drug dealer who will stop at nothing to unearth the dangerous treasure. With the help of Romer Treece (Robert Shaw), an old treasure hunter, David and Gail soon realize that they have made a much more important discovery than the morphine and set out to keep their actual treasure a secret. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Reviews (4)
The underwater shots are great, adding on some proper suspense. Add in an Indiana Jones-like story and you get The Deep. It’s more of an adventurous and mysterious movie than a horror, but most of all it is a really well-made film that I enjoyed from start to finish. Not only because of its story, but also because of Jacqueline Bisset or the nice acting performances by Nick Nolte or Robert Shaw.
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Beautiful underwater shots (including shots of Jacqueline Bisset, of course), the hilarious duo of Nolte and Shaw, the scruffy schemer Eli Wallach, the mystery of sunken shipwrecks, treasure, morphine, mobsters, John Barry's haunting music... The Deep is an adventure film the way it should be. Maybe it’s a bit long and with a bit of a throwaway final underwater fight, but whatever. The final death of one of the villains erased all the awkwardness of the previous ten minutes.
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Jacqueline Bisset, who with her boycott of neoprene leaves little to the audience’s imagination, Nick Nolte with a mustache repelling moray eels, deep-sea wolf Robert Shaw, and the exotic setting of Bermuda (underwater British Virgin Islands and the Great Barrier Reef). With John Barry's music playing, you occasionally feel like you're watching a Bond film with Connery. It would be a nice adventure if it weren’t dragging like slime from seaweed, and if the appeal had been more fully explored. Plus, Nick is a terrible softie here. It takes him forever to get to Arianna, who is being toyed with by Karpof’s voodoo villains. That wouldn’t have happened to Bob Saint-Clair.
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An average and not very entertaining adventure thriller.
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