The Deep (1977)

Must See Movie...

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

The Deep is an extremely dull underwater salvage operation film. Surface level in its content.After Cloche had taken Nolte and Bisset's characters off the road and searched them, Nolte's character right after decides to go searching for the booty, leaving the real booty ashore. This moment is just absolutely absurd to me and completely took me out of the film, so bloody stupid. Nothing you could ever find is going to be more valuable to you than her. Anyway, it was all pointless and so much time is spent just with long slow underwater scenes that obviously don't have dialogue. The characters are poor and the film monotonous.

Fab on all points. See it, many times, as I have done.

A simple film of the 1970s intended to frighten you a little bit, to keep your interest with some suspense, and to play on some dreams about treasures and fears about drugs and drug dealers.The way there were spaghetti westerns there were shark-friendly sea movies too. That was just after Jaws (1975) and this film plays with sharks but without too much blood and no damage to humans. The sharks are only lured into attacking a certain zone by some drug dealing Blacks – who are naturally black of course in the drug dealing business whereas the whites are in the treasure hunting business, that may also be morphine – to trap the afore-mentioned white treasure hunters who are in the deep, well not too deep though.Then you just need an old French tobacco ship used by the Spanish governor of Cuba to transport the three key lock chest in which he is smuggling some Spanish King's lost valuable back to Europe while he is trying to appropriate them to himself at the same time. In other words he is a bad and thieving magpie of a governor.It all ends well of course. The Blacks are all killed or nearly, though they kill one white man and try to kill another one, plus the girl, because there is a girl of course. What could sailors do without a girl to keep them warm when the sailors are in port? A beautiful explosion of the tip top of a lighthouse and another of a sunk ship that creates some trouble at the surface of the ocean but NOT ONE dead fish. Dynamite is no longer what it used to be. That might have been cruel with the live sea food down there if a bunch of plastic semblances had floated on the surface. That's a pleasant change from serious British comedy like "Only Fools and Horses."Enjoy the waves.Dr Jacques COULARDEAU

Now I read the book simply for the enormous moray nicknamed Percy, but I soon discovered the plot was far more intense, it involved a honeymooning couple in Bermuda, diving off shipwrecks for sunken treasure, fighting against greedy Cuban gangsters and angry tiger sharks, and it was very exciting, very thrilling, the eel though only made at least three appearances, it was dwarfed by the struggles between the human characters themselves, and barely seen. The reason people usually want to view The Deep is because they think it is a monster flick similar to Jaws, involving a gargantuan moray in place of a huge great white, but this is not the case as I learned not to my disappointment but surprise and enjoyment, it is much (excuse the pun) more deep and further than Jaws in certain respects, using a leviathan as only a minor character and not the main focus. But yes after seeing the eel, Percy as he is named, I fell fast asleep and haven't really cared about locating and viewing the movie completely since because I know that the book is good enough for me, and this film is probably pale and poor adaptation, that is all I will say.