
Formerly married petroleum engineers who still have some issues to work out. They are drafted to assist a gung-ho Navy SEAL with a top-secret recovery operation: a nuclear sub has been ambushed and sunk, under mysterious circumstances, in some of the deepest waters on Earth.... (Full plot summary below)
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Formerly married petroleum engineers who still have some issues to work out. They are drafted to assist a gung-ho Navy SEAL with a top-secret recovery operation: a nuclear sub has been ambushed and sunk, under mysterious circumstances, in some of the deepest waters on Earth.
Leave your thoughts about The Abyss.
| Rolling StonePeter TraversStupendously exciting and emotionally engulfing... With probing intelligence and passionate feeling, Cameron has raised the adventure film very close to the level of art. |
| Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumThe attempt to extract the essences of several genres (cold-war submarine thriller, love story, Disney fantasy, pseudomystical SF in the Spielberg mode) and mix them together ultimately leads to giddy incoherence. |
| Sci-Fi Movie PageJames O'EhleyBrilliant at sustaining tension and interest. |
| Movie MetropolisJohn J. Puccio...the undersea adventure may have you waterlogged after the first hour. |
| eFilmCritic.comScott WeinbergA gorgeous and fascinating underwater adventure. |
| BrianOrndorf.comBrian OrndorfThe movie was a bear to make and it shows onscreen, parading around a series of mesmerizing set-pieces that look deliciously hard-earned in ways our current CG-drenched filmmaking climate never allows. |
| Juicy CerebellumAlex SandellSuffers due to its incredible length and slow pace, but intriguing, nonetheless. |
| Hollywood ReporterDuane ByrgeColossally ambitious, this logistically boggling and technically brilliant film from writer-director James Cameron is a visual tour de force, featuring overall, the greatest underwater sequences ever seen on film. |
| San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleA firstrate underwater suspenser with an otherworldly twist, The Abyss suffers from a payoff unworthy of its buildup. |
| USA TodayMike ClarkThe Abyss ends with a whimper. But it starts out with a bang that lasts for an exciting hour and a half. And that's enough to make it worth taking the plunge. |