Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Pacionsbo Absolutely Fantastic

WillSushyMedia This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

Michael_Elliott Ghosts of the Abyss (2003) *** (out of 4) Director Cameron's "return" to Titanic was this documentary with groundbreaking technology that hoped to capture images of the sunken ship that had never been seen before, Cameron was joined by countless historians, scientists and even Bill Paxton as they went 12,000+ feet below the sea to the final resting place of Titanic. This is a very mixed film because it was originally intended for IMAX screens but even then it was shot 35mm and blown up for IMAX so several people complained that the images wasn't nearly as good because of that. Seeing it at home you obviously loose the scope of the production but the images are incredibly clean and most of the time they're amazing. The crew are armed with the smaller cameras that are pretty much robots that can swim their way through the ship and reach areas that would seem impossible. The main reason to watch this film are for these images of the ship, which is pretty much just a burial ground for over a thousand people. We get to see the rooms of the Captain, Molly Brown and even Ismay but then we get to see even lower levels of the ship. The ship certainly isn't in the best of conditions as more and more bacterial grow on it each passing day but it's amazing to see windows still in place and one sequence shows us a bottle of water that is still standing upright. These images are amazing to see as well as being quite haunting because even though your eyes are wide open pulling all of these sites in, you have to remember the lives that were lost. The film runs just under an hour and it's certainly worth watching for all of this footage but at the same time there are a lot of issues with the movie. For starters, there's really not much of a story and there are many times when you have to question what Cameron was wanting to show or how he was wanting us to take what he was offering. Just look at the sequence where one of the robots pretty much dies inside the ship and we have to sit through the rescue. This sequence just seems like something that should have been in the deleted scenes section of the DVD. With that said, being this close to the Titanic is reason enough to sit through this.

Luciana Guillen Loved it! It was such a great investigation, very immersed in the topic, they took all the details and explained the whole thing, in my personal opinion, really enjoyed the explanation accompanied with graphics, very great! I'm a really TITANIC history freaky, so I can tell that for anyone who wants to see a really accurate investigation with all the details that any ''fan'' wants to know, here is the place, this is the documental. As the TITANIC movie was, this one from J.C is such a work of art... it's the ''forensic facts'' as the old Rose said once in TITANIC movie from 1997. Also you'll love how the investigators are pretty interested in how was the disaster step by step, and recreate the whole thing again and again, also easy to follow, and nice graphics. A really good work!

serge PREDICTABLE ALREADY SEEN VISUALS. The problem was that most of the ship is all rusted red and therefore everything looks the same. Also a lot of this was shot with non-high quality 2-D digital cameras on 2 movable robots. After a while of seeing all this omnipresent orange-red rust on relatively small screens we don't know what we're looking at, where we are, and we just don't care after a while. The effects of 3D were rarely used except for the face of the russian submarine driver.

gaystereotype Obviously this was a watered down version of a documentary that tried to appeal to the widest (read $) family audience. I don't know whether they actually scripted the dialogue, but it felt extremely stilted. Please pepper it with some cuss words next time, James. Other than that the footage was pretty interesting, and the depths of the ocean reminds one of "Das Boot".