Deep Shock
Deep Shock
| 17 September 2003 (USA)
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When an unknown underwater object disables an American nuclear-powered submarine and attacks a submerged Arctic research complex, a scientific expedition flies to the North Pole to investigate these incidents as well as the sudden, inexplicable rise in temperature that threatens to melt the ice cap and flood the surface of the world.

Reviews
SunnyHello Nice effects though.
Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.
Billie Morin This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows
Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.
noizyme Deep Shock plays out like a TV movie: a whole cast of commercial-quality actors, a poorly designed creature to be the "bad guy," and a script that is more full of technical, political jargon and importances than it knows what to do with.I checked out the movie because of the creature (I love to see what filmmakers have in mind for their designs in these cheaply made videos), and right off the bat, I got disappointed because the creature on the box was not the one in the movie. The actors I expected because of the type of film it is (really quite generic and not thought out past a certain point). The music was typical, not-thought-out action symphonic music.I liked the design of the computers and technical equipment, along with the mini-sub design. The movie even flowed really well, with guiding screens letting you know which set you're watching the story unfold in. But there isn't much of a story here anyways.This movie gets a 3/10 stars IMO. The boring search and destroy mission to blow up the North Pole and these creatures protecting it...kinda lame. Even lamer is the tagged-on love relationship between two of the characters that you don't see coming. Chalk this one up to being a movie which tries to get actors' careers off the bench and into a video. Don't bother.
ApolloBoy109 Last week I had some minor surgery and had to watch TV. As the previous reviewer stated the Sci-Fi channel loves putting thier 'original' movies onSunday night at 9:00. Maybe because they think no one is watching. Lately Sci-Fi is not content to just run movies and TV shows, they want to be movie makers. Having seen most of them, I conclude they need to stop it. This movie (and it really isn't a movie, more like an episode of a Twilight Zone-like anthology series) was just bad karma from the first word.Paint by numbers.The script was difficult to follow. Seriously I didn't really understand what was going on for most of it. The only clues I had were the rip-off characters from the Abyss, and of course the 'arch evil' corporate, government, mad scientist (insert here) bad guy. Boy, ever since Alien 2 we've always had the Paul Reiser character in every sci-fi tale.Anyway, the movie was as bad as it's CGI creatures, and had nothing to offer a sci-fi fan.
bodie This is one of what appears to be several attempts of the SciFi channel at securing a new weekly series. (Riverworld, Momentum, Alien Hunter, Epoch) This time it is giant alien eels who are preparing the earth for reclamation by its original owners, whoever that might be, by melting the polar ice caps. In the end the good scientist somehow manages to communicate with them and they get locked away in the remains of the Hubris undersea research station which conveniently sinks with them inside it. It's easy to see how this could evolve into a series with the question each week of "Will the earths owners come back or not?) Like all of the these movies that the SciFi channel has put on they come on at 9:00PM on Saturday (at least in my area). They are interesting until about half-way through and they loose steam. The ending always leaves many unanswered questions which could conveniently be dealt with in a weekly series. As far as the storyline goes there is one major flaw in the concept. According to the scenario presented if the polar ice cap melted the resulting lose of land mass due to flooding is way, way off. A graphic presented in the movie showed that 90% of all land mass would be under water. This is simply not the case. Even if both polar ice caps melted, (in the movie only the Arctic ice mass was being melted) ocean levels in the world would rise about 60-100 feet. While this would be devastating to all coastal cities it would not, as indicated in the movie, flood all of the United States except the High Sierra Nevada Mountains. The far greater problem with a disappearing polar ice sheet would be the complete disruption of the weather pattern as we now know it. I also was annoyed with the cliche ridden depiction of the military. Even after it was very clearly demonstrated that any form of aggression against these "eels" would result in complete destruction of the aggressor no one except the good scientists were getting the message. I served in the military and can say that if one battle strategy fails it is never repeated over and over again giving opportunity after opportunity for failure. All in all it was a disappointing film. I'll keep watching however because I am a SciFi junkie.
Frederic E. Kahler Sci-Fi Channel offers this lugubrious, insensitive and heavily-orchestrated North Pole would-be horror flick that is just slow enough to irritate and flashing enough lights to induce a kind of I-Don't-Care-to-Get-It epilepsy.