Did the cast in the deep movie do the underwater thereselfs
The wonderful locations, the magnificent photography, the good cast and the amazing beauty of Jacqueline Bisset support this movie, which is recommended for killing time only. "The Deep" is a very linear adventure, without any plot point or surprises. Meanwhile, the powerful Haitian drug dealer Henri Cloche (as Louis Gossett Jr.) menaces the group, trying to get the drugs.
David and Gail associate to Treece, trying to recover part of the underwater wealth. They look for the advice of Romer Treece (Robert Shaw), an expert in treasures and old ships, and they realize that indeed there were two vessels in the same location: a French one, from the Eighteenth Century, with a treasure in jewels, and another one, from the war, with a load of morphine. In Bermudas, while diving for pleasure, David Sanders (Nick Nolte) and Gail Berke (Jacqueline Bisset) find a submerged vessel, and they bring a couple of objects withdrawn from the ship. THE DEEP - occasionally fun, but mostly turgid and padded endlessly. doesn't get to be near nasty enough as the baddie of the piece. Shaw seems wasted in a repeat of his salty old sea-dog role from JAWS, with an accent that changes every couple of minutes Nolte is fresh-faced but boring as the young hero, and Gossett Jr. Sure, there's an involving chase between a truck and two bikes, a cool fight scene involving an outboard motor (!) and a fun climax involving a giant eel and Louis Gossett Jr's head, but that's about all the excitement you'll get out of this movie (okay, perhaps Jacqueline should go in there too). It's just that so little happens during the two hour length you'll wonder why they bothered. As well as Bisset, the film is visually superior with rich underwater photography accompanied by an effective John Barry score which helps bring out the beauty of "the deep". This is a film that rightly or wrongly appears to have achieved (ahem) prominence due to Jacqueline Bisset's appearance in a wet t-shirt, which no doubt whetted the appetites of many an adolescent viewer. brings in his strong arm gang to retrieve treasure for themselves. The rest is taken up with dialogue between uninvolving characters and some half-hearted attempts at suspense when Louis Gossett Jr. I mean, it's cool that actors get to act underwater, but so what? Underwater scenes are just there for padding and take up half of this film's running time. Watching people swim about slowly underwater is one of my pet movie hates (which is why some of the Bond films don't exactly thrill me). This is an exceptionally dull movie, enlivened by only a few peripheral pleasures. The humans do their best and The Deep is a good modern yarn of the sea.īased on a novel by Peter Benchley and written by the one-hit wonder author himself, THE DEEP isn't half as interesting as it sounds.
Putting the human players in second place is the underwater location photography and the sound which got an Oscar nomination. The local criminal in Bermda Lou Gossett Jr. But what's in the World War II warship is explosives but also medical supplies which include hundreds of ampules of morphine. 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 exactly is the treasure? As it turns out a World War II era ship was sunk and landed on top of a Spanish galleon. 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. 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.