copycat?

It does have similarities to Alien and The Thing. But the idea of mutation was good. Not bad movie, not at all. By the way, sharks didn't kill Ernie ,it was that mutation.

Unfortunately, keeping him alive would have violated a few cardinal rules of 80s Horror Type #2, because:

- Three characters were left alive, with over 30 minutes of film left. One still had to go.

- The monster had not made a Surprising Comeback / The Final Attack yet.

- The Hero / The Accidental Savior of the Day (Peter Weller) obviously could not die.

- Neither could the Lovely Girl With Unshaken Morals / The Hero's Eventual Romantic Interest (Amanda Pays). That only left poor Jones.

One major rule was violated, however - the Evil Traitorous Supervisor / Obnoxious Witch survived, while she should have fallen prey to the monster. In fact, she should have fallen prey to a creature that she should have been protecting, since Big Corporations are always interested in acquiring slimy repulsive monsters for use as Biological Weaponry - even if their sole area of expertise is making paper clips.

Be glad you were not watching Leviathan's cheaper, inferior clone - "Deep Star Six". In that movie, the black guy gets it *first* - and he does not even get the honor of being killed by the creature.

The first half or so of this movie was really good. That is, until the creature appeared. This movie could have been alot better, but I'd still give it a 6/10

I was upset too that he was killed, and the sharks didn't kill him, it was the mutated creature. They should've kept him alive, and I think the sharks was a horrible seen, at first it seemd like a sign that he would survive in the end, when he shooed them away. Then came that B-type beast. They could at least make it like Jaws the Revenge, where Van Peebles was swallowed by the shark, and at the end when we thought he was dead, he cam out of the blue, leaving Quaid surprised saying, "what're you doing alive?" Yeah they shoulda done it like that, when the creature takes him in, they should've made him rise up to the surface, maybe beaten bruised or one arm/leg and leaving Weller surprised, and he would've said "hey what are you doing alive" and as Weller and Pays walk out in the end, there could be a stretcher taking Jones away. That could've been a better ending. 10 years later another movie appeared. Deep Blue Sea. I think the ending seemed similar to this except that the woman died, so sad that was also dissapointing, at least the black guy survived there, even though there was a sign that he would die.

well it kinda had a little copy cat in it having cob as the producer designer and jerry goldsmith with the music.

Funny that I was watching this on The Sci Fi Channel, and couldn't help but laugh at parts of this film. I agree that bits and pieces of this film are rip-offs. But if you look at the bigger picture, some of the films that "Leviathan" ripped off are THEMSELVES rip-offs! Remember "Alien?" The film was a rip-off of "It! The Terror From Beyond Space," made in 1958. That film was about pretty much the same thing: A lone survivor tells unbelieving people of a expedition to Mars, whose crew members were killed off one by one by a creature that stowed away on their ship (Apparently, a lawsuit was involved because of this).

The thing about the Hollywood filmmaking machine is that they recycle EVERYTHING. Every few years they have competing films with pretty much the same theme (Remember Armaggedon Vs. Deep Impact?) In this case, "Leviathan Vs. Deep Star Six."

And yes, I TOTALLY agree that it was messed up about Ernie Hudson. In fact, whenever that scene comes up, I just fly pass it (As I am typing this, I just turned the channel to avoid it. And turned it back just in time to see Peter Weller punch the bejeezus out of Meg Foster (She of the haunting eyes).

"Oh, I'm in no condition to drive. Wait a minute. I don't have to listen to myself. I'm drunk." Homer Simpson

I've never seen The Thing, The Abyss, Alien, but I have seen IT. I loved this movie after I first saw it and thought it was one of a kind. I loved the end and didn't think it had any racial connotations. I just felt horrible that he had to die. That was a scary scene.




You got me straight trippin, Boo.