Let’s hear it for ‘undiscriminating’ audiences, the kind that want nothing more in a movie than a hundred minutes of combat action, suspense, scary monsters and gross-out gore. They’ll get their fill in Stephen Sommers’ Cuisinart blending of Titanic, Aliens and Die Hard. It’s quality fast food exploitation; just keep your medicine handy if you’re allergic to brainless cornball dialogue.
Deep Rising
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1998 / Color/ 2:35 widescreen / 106 min. / Street Date August 21, 2018 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Treat Williams, Famke Janssen, Anthony Heald, Kevin J. O’Connor, Wes Studi, Derrick O’Connor, Jason Flemyng, Cliff Curtis, Clifton Powell, Trevor Goddard, Djimon Hounsou.
Cinematography: Howard Atherton
Film Editor: Bob Ducsay, John Wright
Original Music: Jerry Goldsmith
Special Creature and Makeup Effects designer and creator: Rob Bottin
Second Unit Director: Dean Cundey
Produced by John Baldecchi, Laurence Mark
Written and Directed by Stephen Sommers
Deep Rising must...
Deep Rising
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1998 / Color/ 2:35 widescreen / 106 min. / Street Date August 21, 2018 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Treat Williams, Famke Janssen, Anthony Heald, Kevin J. O’Connor, Wes Studi, Derrick O’Connor, Jason Flemyng, Cliff Curtis, Clifton Powell, Trevor Goddard, Djimon Hounsou.
Cinematography: Howard Atherton
Film Editor: Bob Ducsay, John Wright
Original Music: Jerry Goldsmith
Special Creature and Makeup Effects designer and creator: Rob Bottin
Second Unit Director: Dean Cundey
Produced by John Baldecchi, Laurence Mark
Written and Directed by Stephen Sommers
Deep Rising must...
- 8/10/2018
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
It's more violent than a kebab shop after the pubs kick out, and has caused more controversy than Katie Hopkins on an episode of This Morning. It's spawned a couple of movies, a TV show, comic books, techno albums and card games. It is, of course, Mortal Kombat.
As the franchise's first major motion picture prepares to celebrate its 20th anniversary, now seems like as good a time as any to look back at the series' best brawlers.
From young pretenders like Cassie Cage and Erron Black to old favourites like Raiden and Sonya Blade, here are the top 20 Mortal Kombat kharacters characters.
Why Mortal Kombat is the greatest game movie ever made
20. Ferra/Torr
First appears in: Mortal Kombat X
There was a spell when new additions to the Mortal Kombat series were either masked ninja clones (Rain) or just a bit crap (Stryker). The development team made much...
As the franchise's first major motion picture prepares to celebrate its 20th anniversary, now seems like as good a time as any to look back at the series' best brawlers.
From young pretenders like Cassie Cage and Erron Black to old favourites like Raiden and Sonya Blade, here are the top 20 Mortal Kombat kharacters characters.
Why Mortal Kombat is the greatest game movie ever made
20. Ferra/Torr
First appears in: Mortal Kombat X
There was a spell when new additions to the Mortal Kombat series were either masked ninja clones (Rain) or just a bit crap (Stryker). The development team made much...
- 8/18/2015
- Digital Spy
Video game movies don't have the best reputation, but there are a few shining diamonds in the rough.
Weak on plot and characters, Silent Hill nevertheless has a deliciously creepy atmosphere that echoes the unsettling vibe of the game that inspired it. Lara Croft: Tomb Raider is obviously rubbish, but wins points for embracing the absurd madness of the whole affair.
Ranking the Mortal Kombat characters: Who scores a flawless victory?
Not that you'd guess from the interminable Resident Evil series, but the greatest ever video game movie was directed by Paul Ws Anderson - 1995's Mortal Kombat, celebrating its 20th anniversary today.
It's got a proper, simple storyline that - and why the hell not? - is based on the wafer-thin plot of the game itself.
Ne'er do well and bad guy sorcerer Shang Tsung (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa) is looking to take over the Earth, and needs his gang to...
Weak on plot and characters, Silent Hill nevertheless has a deliciously creepy atmosphere that echoes the unsettling vibe of the game that inspired it. Lara Croft: Tomb Raider is obviously rubbish, but wins points for embracing the absurd madness of the whole affair.
Ranking the Mortal Kombat characters: Who scores a flawless victory?
Not that you'd guess from the interminable Resident Evil series, but the greatest ever video game movie was directed by Paul Ws Anderson - 1995's Mortal Kombat, celebrating its 20th anniversary today.
It's got a proper, simple storyline that - and why the hell not? - is based on the wafer-thin plot of the game itself.
Ne'er do well and bad guy sorcerer Shang Tsung (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa) is looking to take over the Earth, and needs his gang to...
- 8/18/2015
- Digital Spy
Mortal Kombat
Paul W.S. Anderson
Kevin Droney
1995, USA
After Street Fighter laid the groundwork for the fighting game, Mortal Kombat hit the scene, setting a high-water mark for realistic digitized graphics and pushing boundaries with its high levels of bloody violence, including, most notably, its Fatalities. It sparked so much controversy for its depiction of extreme violence and gore that it led to the creation of the Esrb (the video game rating system). The release of Mortal Kombat for home consoles by Acclaim Entertainment was one of the largest video game launches of all time, with a $10 million marketing campaign that dubbed the date “Mortal Monday.” No surprise, then, that a game this controversial and popular would pique the interest of money-hungry Hollywood executives looking to cash in. Mortal Kombat the movie enjoyed a 3-week run at the top of the Us box office, earning over $122 million worldwide. In addition to toys,...
Paul W.S. Anderson
Kevin Droney
1995, USA
After Street Fighter laid the groundwork for the fighting game, Mortal Kombat hit the scene, setting a high-water mark for realistic digitized graphics and pushing boundaries with its high levels of bloody violence, including, most notably, its Fatalities. It sparked so much controversy for its depiction of extreme violence and gore that it led to the creation of the Esrb (the video game rating system). The release of Mortal Kombat for home consoles by Acclaim Entertainment was one of the largest video game launches of all time, with a $10 million marketing campaign that dubbed the date “Mortal Monday.” No surprise, then, that a game this controversial and popular would pique the interest of money-hungry Hollywood executives looking to cash in. Mortal Kombat the movie enjoyed a 3-week run at the top of the Us box office, earning over $122 million worldwide. In addition to toys,...
- 8/15/2015
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
I don’t know about you, but E3 got me Super stoked to slap Mortal Kombat X into my PS4 next year! In my excitement I went back and watched one of the few video game movies that actually encompasses the feel of the original material. That movie? You guessed it, New Line Cinema’s Mortal Kombat! Well, despite having a lot of input from original game creators Ed Boon and John Tobias, there are a few things in the film that aren’t quite canon, so here is my list of the five biggest things they did differently than the original storyline for the games. I am not including parts from the rebooted timeline, however, since the movie wasn’t based on that timeline. (Also, we’re only gonna talk about the first Mortal Kombat movie, because Annihilation got so much wrong this article would have to be printed in hardback…...
- 6/16/2014
- by Jake Smith
- GeekTyrant
A slick, state-of-the-art monster movie with a cool cast but hack dialogue, providing plenty of laughs to go with the mayhem, Hollywood Pictures' "Deep Rising" could be the new year's first sizable hit if audiences jump aboard for another spectacle set on an ill-fated luxury liner.
"Die Hard"-meets-"Alien"-meets-"Titanic" in writer-director Stephen Sommers' wide-screen chiller starring the rugged Treat Williams and an eclectic lineup of supporting players including Anthony Heald, Wes Studi, Djimon Hounsou, Famke Janssen and Kevin J. O'Connor.
With Jerry Goldsmith's robust score setting the tone, "Deep Rising" teases one with information about the 40,000-foot-deep trenches in the South China Sea and the many reported disappearances in the area throughout history. Could it be there's a fearsome sea monster to blame?
Speeding along in his small, fast boat, mercenary smuggler and good-guy Finnegan (Williams) and his long-suffering crew and surly passengers are destined to find out just how deadly and untidy the creature can be. Finnegan's party, a gang of gun-happy bad-asses led by Hanover (Studi), intends to loot the huge cruise ship Argonautica after its computer programs are deliberately erased by an on-board collaborator (Heald).
Along with the tension brought on by all the macho men in a confined space, erupting briefly into violence against Finnegan's whiny but likable mechanic (O'Connor), the group is unknowingly headed toward a ghost ship. In a terrific sequence, the Argonautica is struck by something big causing destruction and death like a major earthquake.
What happens next to one panicked passenger sitting on a toilet is a bit gratuitous and sophomoric, but there's much more to come. What do you expect from a movie with a nasty tentacle that "drinks" its victims? Horribly gross is one way to describe the truly ghoulish bits, but they can be howlingly entertaining.
Providing some relief from the steady elimination of Studi's men (Trevor Goddard, Clifton Powell, Hounsou, Jason Flemyng) in inventively gory ways is the subplot involving a professional thief (Janssen), who is spared when most passengers are gobbled up and joins Finnegan in trying to escape.
With elaborate production design by Holger Gross ("Stargate") and inspired cinematography by Howard Atherton, "Deep Rising" is an expensive-looking production, but more effort could have been put into the script. Williams, Janssen and O'Connor come off looking good, but Studi and Heald are too easily upstaged.
The special effects are solid throughout, with kudos to the crack team of special makeup and creature designer Rob Bottin, visual effects supervisor Mike Shea and mechanical effects coordinator Darrell Pritchett. Credit also goes to all the imaginative folks at Dream Quest Images, Industrial Light & Magic and Banned From the Ranch.
DEEP RISING
Buena Vista Pictures
Hollywood Pictures presents
A Laurence Mark production
A Stephen Sommers film
Writer-director: Stephen Sommers
Producers: Laurence Mark, John Baldecchi
Executive producer: Barry Bernardi
Director of photography: Howard Atherton
Production designer: Holger Gross
Editors: Bob Ducsay, John Wright
Music: Jerry Goldsmith
Casting: Mary Goldberg
Color/stereo
Cast:
Finnegan: Treat Williams
Trillian: Famke Janssen
Canton: Anthony Heald
Pantucci: Kevin J. O'Connor
Hanover: Wes Studi
Running time -- 106 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
"Die Hard"-meets-"Alien"-meets-"Titanic" in writer-director Stephen Sommers' wide-screen chiller starring the rugged Treat Williams and an eclectic lineup of supporting players including Anthony Heald, Wes Studi, Djimon Hounsou, Famke Janssen and Kevin J. O'Connor.
With Jerry Goldsmith's robust score setting the tone, "Deep Rising" teases one with information about the 40,000-foot-deep trenches in the South China Sea and the many reported disappearances in the area throughout history. Could it be there's a fearsome sea monster to blame?
Speeding along in his small, fast boat, mercenary smuggler and good-guy Finnegan (Williams) and his long-suffering crew and surly passengers are destined to find out just how deadly and untidy the creature can be. Finnegan's party, a gang of gun-happy bad-asses led by Hanover (Studi), intends to loot the huge cruise ship Argonautica after its computer programs are deliberately erased by an on-board collaborator (Heald).
Along with the tension brought on by all the macho men in a confined space, erupting briefly into violence against Finnegan's whiny but likable mechanic (O'Connor), the group is unknowingly headed toward a ghost ship. In a terrific sequence, the Argonautica is struck by something big causing destruction and death like a major earthquake.
What happens next to one panicked passenger sitting on a toilet is a bit gratuitous and sophomoric, but there's much more to come. What do you expect from a movie with a nasty tentacle that "drinks" its victims? Horribly gross is one way to describe the truly ghoulish bits, but they can be howlingly entertaining.
Providing some relief from the steady elimination of Studi's men (Trevor Goddard, Clifton Powell, Hounsou, Jason Flemyng) in inventively gory ways is the subplot involving a professional thief (Janssen), who is spared when most passengers are gobbled up and joins Finnegan in trying to escape.
With elaborate production design by Holger Gross ("Stargate") and inspired cinematography by Howard Atherton, "Deep Rising" is an expensive-looking production, but more effort could have been put into the script. Williams, Janssen and O'Connor come off looking good, but Studi and Heald are too easily upstaged.
The special effects are solid throughout, with kudos to the crack team of special makeup and creature designer Rob Bottin, visual effects supervisor Mike Shea and mechanical effects coordinator Darrell Pritchett. Credit also goes to all the imaginative folks at Dream Quest Images, Industrial Light & Magic and Banned From the Ranch.
DEEP RISING
Buena Vista Pictures
Hollywood Pictures presents
A Laurence Mark production
A Stephen Sommers film
Writer-director: Stephen Sommers
Producers: Laurence Mark, John Baldecchi
Executive producer: Barry Bernardi
Director of photography: Howard Atherton
Production designer: Holger Gross
Editors: Bob Ducsay, John Wright
Music: Jerry Goldsmith
Casting: Mary Goldberg
Color/stereo
Cast:
Finnegan: Treat Williams
Trillian: Famke Janssen
Canton: Anthony Heald
Pantucci: Kevin J. O'Connor
Hanover: Wes Studi
Running time -- 106 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
- 1/29/1998
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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