A submarine crew investigates a mysterious underwater accident and come to believe they may be dealing with aliens.
Unfocused but always compelling, at times moving, adventure/fantasy takes a while to get going, but it has likable characters and suspenseful scenes (including a harrowing near-drowning). Beautiful effects animate the aliens, which are without much point. They don't fit or do anything instrumental to the plot.
They are given more purpose in the expanded version, which benefits from added exposition but suffers from overliteralization of the film's message, conveyed in the hopelessly heavy-handed final plot turn.
Unfocused but always compelling, at times moving, adventure/fantasy takes a while to get going, but it has likable characters and suspenseful scenes (including a harrowing near-drowning). Beautiful effects animate the aliens, which are without much point. They don't fit or do anything instrumental to the plot.
They are given more purpose in the expanded version, which benefits from added exposition but suffers from overliteralization of the film's message, conveyed in the hopelessly heavy-handed final plot turn.