Atlantis

Facts: Released in 1991 by Gaumont 77 minutes long Produced by: Gaumont Directed by: Luc Besson (and Idea) Music composed by: Eric Serra Executive producer: Claude Besson Director of Photography: Christian Petron Filmed by: Luc Besson & Christian Petron Symphonic Music Performed by: The London Royal Philarmonic Orchestra Singing by: Maria Callas, Vanessa Paradis and Eric Serra The story: Atlantis is a movie without actors. The movie has no story, it's just beautiful underwater photography with music. Eric Serra's music fits very good to the images. The images usually consist of shades of blue as you could expect from a underwater movie and animals doing their thing.

The Abyss

Facts: Directed by: James Cameron Released in: 1989 English dialogue 140 minutes long Cast: Mary Elizabeth, Mastrantonio, Ed Harris Won Academy Award for Best Visual Effects. Nominated for Best Art Direction, Best Sound and Best Cinematography. The story: A US nuclear submarine tracks a strange high-speed object travelling through the water. The skipper of the boat wants to investigate and gets into trouble. The sub runs into the wake of the object and smashes into a canyon. The Navy needs to get the warheads off the sub, but they cannot get a crew as far down as the sub is at. The Navy calls upon a deep sea drilling crew located on a one of a kind deep-sea oilrig. Lindsey Brigman (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) designed the rig. She's a tough woman who is hard to get along with and nobody really likes her and she's just flown in to help with the rescue operation. Down below, on the rig, we have a rag-tag group of workers. Bud Brigman (Ed Harris) leads these people. Bud and Lindsey have been divorced a few years ago, and Bud is not expecting Lindsey to come down. Sent down to the rig are a group of Navy SEALs. The group of SEALs are led by Lt. Coffey. This moive could have been better, because it´s more of an family-adventure than thrilling action.

The Big Blue

Facts: Directed by: Luc Besson Cast: Rosanna Arquette, Jean-Marc Barr, Jean Reno, Paul Shenar, Sergio Castellitto, Marc Duret. There are four different versions known to exists. The running times are as follows: French Version: 134 minutes Version Longue: 168 minutes Version Longue: The massive popularity of the movie in France combined with the public knowing that several scenes were left in the cutting room, convinced Besson to go back and re-insert about 35 minutes of film. International Version: 118 minutes US Version: 118+ minutes US version: The American distributors were not satisfied with the movie as it was, and re-edited it, changed the ending and got Bill Conti of Rocky fame to re-score the music The story: Jacques and his friendly rival Enzo are considered masters of free-diving and have made a career out of this one-of-a-kind competition. Jacques feels an unusual bond with the sea and Enzo is in it for the sheer danger involved. In walks Joanna and a new dimension is added. This is a classic that many have seen, If you´re one of them that hasen´t seen it you really sould beacuse it´s one of the best movies I´ve ever seen.

Deep Blue Sea

Facts: Director: Renny Harlin Director of Photography: Steve Windon Studio: Warner Brothers English dialogue Genre: Thriller/Science Fiction Official web site: Deep Blue Sea The story: In a search for a cure to degenerative brain diseases, mako sharks are genetically altered and their intelligence is raised to the level of a dolphin. When the underwater facility where the sharks are kept is flooded, the scientific research team finds themselves cut off from the surface. However, the team members know the facility was designed so the sharks could never escape... This movie isn't so good. First of all I think that the special effects are quite bad, and the story is sometimes very unrealistic. I give it 2 out of 5.

National geographic - Jewels of the Caribbean Sea

Facts: Approx. 60 min. long Official web site: National Geographic This is of course a nature film without actors. Tour the depths of the Caribbean Sea. In waters famed for hidden treasures, another kind of wealth lies in abundance. Witness an array of brightlycolored, exotic creatures. This kind of moive is a bit hard to rate. It´s a nature film, rent it if you wan´t to learn something.

Sphere

Facts: Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone, Samuel L. Jackson English dialogue The story: A thousand feet below the Pacific lies a half-mile long spacecraft believed to have splashed down 300 years ago. A team of American scientific experts, led by Peter Coyote’s military man, descends in a small sub-craft to investigate. A mathematician (Samuel L. Jackson), an astrophysicist (Liev Schreiber), a biochemist (Sharon Stone), and a psychologist (Dustin Hoffman) set up shop in an ocean-floor-level study station adjacent to the humongous sunken spaceship. What the team eventually finds aboard the vessel is a mysterious glowing ball of golden mercury. They spend the rest of this screen adaptation of Michael Crichton’s sci-fi novel figuring out the implications of the discovery, which begins to test their trust in each other. Sphere could have been really good, but lacks a bit in the story. It´s worth the money it costs to rent it.

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