Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

Bea Swanson This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Jenna Walter The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Cissy Évelyne It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

FountainPen Fab on all points. See it, many times, as I have done.

bkoganbing I guess someone saw the big box office of Jaws and decided that Peter Benchley's new sea novel The Deep would be ideal if Robert Shaw got to star again. He's here again, this time as a historian of the sea and part time treasure hunter who's clued in by vacationing treasure seekers Nick Nolte and Jacqueline Bissett about treasure in The Deep.But what exactly is the treasure? As it turns out a World War II era ship was sunk and landed on top of a Spanish galleon. Both have different kinds of treasure. If they can get to it maybe they'll find those gold and jewels and pieces of eight from the days of the Spanish Empire. But what's in the World War II warship is explosives but also medical supplies which include hundreds of ampules of morphine. The local criminal in Bermda Lou Gossett Jr. is already counting the profits. Shaw's not immune from the lure either.Putting the human players in second place is the underwater location photography and the sound which got an Oscar nomination.The humans do their best and The Deep is a good modern yarn of the sea.

weblynx-1 I don't know why IMDb is carrying such a negative review of this classic film on the front page. But I'm happy to note a lot of very positive reviews thereafter. Not much more I can add, but this is one of the classics of the golden era of film-making, without the CGI, hyped-up violence, obsessive sexuality and general lack of any kind of emotional depth of current popular cinema. While being in that category (popular cinema), this film is still great entertainment, often going pretty "deep". And there are of course the bonuses of the legendary Robert Shaw, the unforgettable beauty of Jacqueline Bisset, a young Nick Nolte full of promise, a wonderful score by John Barry, and plenty of evocative scenery, both below and above sea level.

wadechurton It was based on a Peter Benchley novel and had Robert 'Captain Quint' Shaw but despite these and many other references to 'Jaws' (including a brazenly misleading 'monster movie' styled poster), 'The Deep' was a beached whale. Long, drawn-out and tedious in the extreme, 'The Deep' was everything 'Jaws' wasn't, sporting everything from stunningly dull editing to ropey special effects (the lunging 'moray eel' looked like it was carved out of something very wooden) thinly-sketched and unlikeable characters. Robert Shaw is all shouty and hammy with a wobbly 'Irish' accent, Nick Nolte is as wooden as a barge-pole and Jaqueline Bisset is totally wasted (except as a hot body) in a bimbo-ish part more suited to the talents of Farrah Fawcett (i.e. she's either asking blatantly expositional questions or being menaced as a damsel in distress). The plot is confused and poorly conveyed, as well as the whole thing being a good half hour too long. Not a lot of fun.