An unpretentious, amusing thrill-a-minute sci-fi horror thriller / monster movie that plugs right into fears of a Y2K crisis.
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TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
The script, based on a Dark Horse comic-book series, is hugely predictable, but the robot effects by veteran Phil Tippett are nastily entertaining.
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L.A. Weekly
L.A. Weekly
FX whiz John Bruno (Terminator 2, True Lies) makes a dubious directorial debut here, juggling monsters that are icky but not scary; an out-of-control Donald Sutherland as the tug’s Ahabesque captain.
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Film Threat
Film Threat
The plot itself is a disappointingly gory concatenation of two recently forgettable sci-fi thrillers; "Hardware" and "Event Horizon."
As long on adrenaline and special effects as it is short on genuine novelty and intellectual content.
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ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
95 minutes of unrelieved tedium.
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USA TodayAndy Seiler
USA TodayAndy Seiler
The movie was postponed from 1998 and shielded from critics. (They were ot allowed to see the movie before the opening, usually a bid sign.) [15 January 1999, Life, p.8E]
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Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
"Deep Rising" was one of the worst movies of 1998. Virus is easily worse.
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San Francisco ChronicleBob Graham
San Francisco ChronicleBob Graham
No one is likely to claim it's a great, or even good, movie, but it does offer some guilty pleasures.