The Deep Below

Not every film needs to have multi-millions of dollars wasted on it. Nor does it need to have the most noted multimillionaire directors and/or technicians.) Reviews have hit this title with the overkill of a sledgehammer. The story was supposedly based on true events, so lower-budget style and lack of slick polish just made it all the more credible and realistic. The so-called "missing" parts didn't bother me as most of them were understood without having to have every minute detail visualized. Dohring fans will like his character of Will, which he plays well. His teen-aged girlfriend and buddy were also convincing and winsome. The story had sufficient peril and action to keep a viewer interested. Actually it reminds me a lot of the "B" films of the 40's and 50's which were shot with minimum time and investment, many of which are better than the big budget A films and have worn better with age. That could very well happen with this one in time.

Obviously there is another case of people behind a film registering here to skew the actual score. This movie is in no way shape or form anything close to it's current 6.1/10 score. The one thing I just can not get over is the feeling they ran out of money in the first week of filming, and thus really had to cut corners on everything. At the moment 24 people have given this a 10/10. The only reason to do that is if you have a financial investment and hope to fool people into renting or buying this. No doubt as more people give an honest review, I suspect the score to easily drop below 3 or 4. Some of SciFi channels own wretched made for TV films are more watchable.

I wonder if this movie was a case where they intentionally tanked it so as to recoup the cost from insurance companies. Other than that, there just is no explanation as to how such a film could be made, much less released.