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The Abyss (1989)
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Meticulously crafted but also ponderous and predictable, James Cameron's 1989 deep-sea close-encounter epic reaffirms one of the oldest first principles of cinema: everything moves a lot more slowly underwater. Ed Harris and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, as formerly married petroleum engineers who still have some "issues" to work out, are drafted to assist a gung-ho Navy SEAL (Michael Biehn) with a top-secret recovery operation: a nuclear sub has been ambushed and sunk, under mysterious circumstances, in some of the deepest waters on earth, and the petro-techies have the only submersible craft capable of diving down that far. Every image and...
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| The Abyss Movie Review by haley (7/3/2007) |
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perhaps this movie should be listed as one of my guilty pleasures... because i am a big fan!
First of all, the characters (even the bit part characters) are great! warm and funny, scared, sad, and none of them are very attractive...thus giving them credibility as deep sea oil rig operators...
Well, except for Ed Harris...
(complete The Abyss review by haley)
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