Synopsis
When the crew of an American tugboat boards an abandoned Russian research vessel, the alien life form aboard regards them as a virus which must be destroyed.
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Cast
- Jamie Lee CurtisKelly Foster
- William BaldwinSteve Baker
- Donald SutherlandCaptain Robert Everton
- Joanna PaculaNadia Vinogradova
- Marshall BellJ.W. Woods Jr.
- Sherman AugustusRichie
- Cliff CurtisHiko
- Julio Oscar MechosoSqueaky
- Levan UchaneishviliCaptain Alexi
- Yuri ChervotkinColonel Kominski
- 60
Los Angeles Times
An unpretentious, amusing thrill-a-minute sci-fi horror thriller / monster movie that plugs right into fears of a Y2K crisis. - 50
TV Guide Magazine
The script, based on a Dark Horse comic-book series, is hugely predictable, but the robot effects by veteran Phil Tippett are nastily entertaining. - 30
L.A. Weekly
FX whiz John Bruno (Terminator 2, True Lies) makes a dubious directorial debut here, juggling monsters that are icky but not scary; an out-of-control Donald Sutherland as the tug’s Ahabesque captain. - 30
Film Threat
The plot itself is a disappointingly gory concatenation of two recently forgettable sci-fi thrillers; "Hardware" and "Event Horizon." - 30
The New York Times
As long on adrenaline and special effects as it is short on genuine novelty and intellectual content. - 25
ReelViews
95 minutes of unrelieved tedium. - 25
USA Today
The movie was postponed from 1998 and shielded from critics. (They were ot allowed to see the movie before the opening, usually a bid sign.) [15 January 1999, Life, p.8E] - 25
Chicago Sun-Times
"Deep Rising" was one of the worst movies of 1998. Virus is easily worse.