How did YOU rank the Abyss?

6/10 alot of wasted opportunity.

I hate everyone and everything.

8/10.

Great movie.


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...while I cannot believe some of the ratings I've read on this thread, I must say that I feel for anyone who does not enjoy magic. Because that's just what this film is.

The Abyss is my favorite film, and for some reason no other film quite has the uniqueness that it does. Not the same degree of uniqueness anyway. The intensity, the thrill, the emotion, the water, the mystic, majestic qualities of it. It's an amazing film that, like someone else said, was ahead of its time. It still holds up today, visually as well as the mood and aura, despite the dated themes involving the Russians.

Aliens is as good, but not as emotional, and that is what propells The Abyss to the head of Cameron's movies for me. T2 is a close third, but I have a feeling something will change next Friday.





I'm not a control freak, I just like things my way

As an all round work, The Abyss gets an emphatic 9/10 from me. Since its initial release, it's been a film I find myself coming back to time and again. The reason, for the most part, is the feeling the movie gives me.
As a story, it's nothing new, and most of the plot devices are recycled from countless other movies, but I find myself drawn into the world and it's characters effortlessly. This is due in no small part to the wonderfully natural acting from the cast. The fact that these guys learned to dive for months together before shooting really shows on screen, the cameraderie and obvious affection that they have for each other lending heart and soul to their performances.
The astonishing production design should also get a mention here. The rig and the sea bed sets are just so realistic (to my mind at least) that you can't help but be pulled into the world of Benthic Petroleum.
Slow burn tension and charcter investment is the name of the game with this movie, and if thats not your bag, this may well bore you to tears. Ed Harris and Mary Liz Mastrantonio have rarely given more raw performances, and the history between their characters is palpable.

I for one will always love this movie. It is exactly what the film industry needed in a time of overblown carnage-fests, and showed what a true filmaker can do with a great cast and some great designers. SE all the way for me BTW, the story has more depth

'Slower than a spastic in a magnet factory' - DCI Gene Hunt

It's a 10 for me. It's in my Top 5 movies of all time. I was a bit disappointed with the theatrical ending at the time, but the director's cut helped that (I wish it had been released that way). It was the acting that infused these characters with real depth and backstory--and the emotion! The emotion is what hooked me, after the adventure and the thriller setup drew me in, the hints of a science fiction element I knew was waiting . . . the love of Bud and Lindsay filled the whole story with a power I just was not expecting. The resuscitation scene gets me every. single. time. I still cry, 20 years on.

I'd give it a 9 until the Steven Spielberg fairie magic crap appeared and then I'd give it a 1.

9.5/10