The Rift (1990)

What a beautiful movie!

The Worst Film Ever

Excellent, smart action film.

Best movie of this year hands down!

After James Cameron's the abyss,there were many imitations like deep star 6,leviathon,lords of the deep,this one is the best of them.with some good actors led by Jack Scalia,Ray Wise,R Lee Ermy,and Edmund Purdom.a submarine meets its fate and a rescue crew must find out why and what happened.i re watched this recently and found it quite enjoyable again.the use of miniature sets and special effects are handled very well.before cgi of course.R Lee Ermy steals the show as the gruff hard as nails captain of the siren 2.the sub assigned to the rescue.the monsters are plentiful and very realistic.hard to believe this was made by the same people who made the trashy awful slugs a year earlier.this is a Saturday matinée movie much like atomic submarine was in 1960,but flashier and with more action.it holds its own,believe me.8 out of 10

An awful B movie at best with video quality similar to Dead Alive. I challenge anyone who is a "Aliens (James Cameron 1986)" Movie fan to count how many times either lines or almost entire sequences were ripped off from the first two Alien movies to make this classic piece of garbage.Cast members such as R. Lee Ermey and Ray Wise were the only two actors with any talent and the lead "Jack Scalia" was really absolutely horrible. I think they cast him for his massive cleft chin. I was also annoyed with the stereotyping of the only black male on the set John Toles-Bey who must look at this movie and just wonder. Look him up sometime as he has done a lot of interesting movies.But on this movie: The script as I said earlier was a rip-off of Aliens tweaked and turned into a submarine "thriller". It included such lines as "I got a bad feeling about this" and "Kill me" as one crew member is infected by one of the mutants and his belly starts doing the "alien hop" just before it pops out of his stomach. There is also a rip-off of the classic "get some!" via Bill Paxton. We also have a bunch of navy grunts running through caves with creepy crawlies popping out of walls. Even the explosions of the mutated creatures is very similar to the popping of aliens as they charge marines in the movie "Aliens". And the kicker is that some of the mutants spit acid (as opposed to having acid for blood). There are many more major examples. So if you want to see this script done well watch the first two classics Alien and Aliens (With Sigourney Weaver). You'll have a more enjoyable time.The plot could have been interesting and done better if not for confusing sequences in the start of the movie and generally poor editing. Camera shots were pretty dull and honestly it wasn't very hard to stop watching it and walk around the room to get a snack or check email. Many of the interactions between characters made little or no sense and went nowhere more often than not. The whole command structure between crew and Capt. was poorly done. I'm not even sure if there are Captains in the military that have full control over nuclear subs. In general this just shows that there was little research done for background information to make the movie seem at least a little respectable and there are many other similar examples (like dive depth etc..).If you like horrible movies or are a big fan of Alien and Aliens and want something to just laugh and shake your head at then this movie may be for you. As for me this one is going back on the shelf...permanently.

The Rift is a "high-art" concept that combines the movie Aliens with Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and you get... well, you get a film that's worse than any old Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea episode, that's for sure.There are some truly creepy moments in thismfilm, but those are buried by many shoddy special effects, badly stereotyped characters like the frightened Hispanic cook and the overly cocky, leering and jiving Black guy; and lastly a really weak ending that's supposed to be like the one at the end of Alien but doesn't quite measure up to anything like Alien.And to add to this sorry mix, Ray Wise's character is supposed to be like the Ash character in Alien, but while his character is human in this film Wise's acting is no less robotic as he goes through the film with his little secret "sly" smiles to show that he's not who or what he's supposed to be.But despite all of it's flaws, it's not too bad of a sci-fi/horror film. It just could have used one, maybe two more script revisions to have polished it up.

Only good if you are in the mood for an idiotic laugh-fest on the order of Plan 9 From Outer Space.Here are a few of the more brilliant quotes from this movie that takes itself way too seriously:"You're my kind of white boy, Wick""We're passing 45,000 feet!" -- the deepest trench on earth is the Marianas trench at 35,813 feet"Reverse the polarity" and "Divert all power to the main engines" -- what is this, the USS Enterprise?"Here we got nothing but darkness and goose bumps"And some of the stupidest looking movie monsters you will ever see.