After catching an elusive terrorist, an agent escorting him on a submarine home meets up with a giant octopus living in the area and tries to help the crew fight off the creature and keep the terrorist under control.
Overall this was quite a surprisingly decent if flawed creature feature. One of the things it does quite well is the actual amount of time and spent here on the subs' descent into the depths of the sea-floor, where this gets a lot right. The scenes of crew receiving the damage and impact on their stations makes for some rather realistic moments of the devastation of these scenes which is quite surprising for a movie of this kind, and along with the outside attacks on the hull that propel it down the ravine as the attacks continue to dismantle the sub and the surrounding hillsides. That leads into the rather impressive attacks on the crew which are quite fun as it culminates on the mad dash through the submerged corridors towards the escape pods which gets quite suspenseful at times. Likewise, this is nicely balanced by great parts as the opening is rather fun spy-action chase that features some nice stunt-work as well as the explosions, while the finale goes for the big spectacle of the octopus attacking the cruise-ship that is a lot of fun seeing it attack the passengers. Beyond these factors, there's a few small flaws with this one in its pretty lousy set-up here. The need for the crew to transport him is so flimsy it makes little sense to happen in the real world and worse off doesn't even have any motivation here as surely a real-world force would come with extra guards and assurances against the actual escape rather than the one lone agent as happens here. Likewise, the film's pace is really off in by doing the brief spy- action at the beginning, dragging out the crew's mission and getting acclimated before going over to shots of the terrorists on-board the ship which doesn't make sense in the film at all before going through the rather fun attacks here, and that really leads to a confusing, disjointed pace. Other than the decent-but-obvious CGI, it's all that really hurts this one.
Rated PG-13: Language and Violence.
Overall this was quite a surprisingly decent if flawed creature feature. One of the things it does quite well is the actual amount of time and spent here on the subs' descent into the depths of the sea-floor, where this gets a lot right. The scenes of crew receiving the damage and impact on their stations makes for some rather realistic moments of the devastation of these scenes which is quite surprising for a movie of this kind, and along with the outside attacks on the hull that propel it down the ravine as the attacks continue to dismantle the sub and the surrounding hillsides. That leads into the rather impressive attacks on the crew which are quite fun as it culminates on the mad dash through the submerged corridors towards the escape pods which gets quite suspenseful at times. Likewise, this is nicely balanced by great parts as the opening is rather fun spy-action chase that features some nice stunt-work as well as the explosions, while the finale goes for the big spectacle of the octopus attacking the cruise-ship that is a lot of fun seeing it attack the passengers. Beyond these factors, there's a few small flaws with this one in its pretty lousy set-up here. The need for the crew to transport him is so flimsy it makes little sense to happen in the real world and worse off doesn't even have any motivation here as surely a real-world force would come with extra guards and assurances against the actual escape rather than the one lone agent as happens here. Likewise, the film's pace is really off in by doing the brief spy- action at the beginning, dragging out the crew's mission and getting acclimated before going over to shots of the terrorists on-board the ship which doesn't make sense in the film at all before going through the rather fun attacks here, and that really leads to a confusing, disjointed pace. Other than the decent-but-obvious CGI, it's all that really hurts this one.
Rated PG-13: Language and Violence.