It's about that you should to imagine about Alien (1979) set underwater, but with low budget. Since it has 5.2 rating on IMDb, I actually think it's truly underrated and good underwater film. I can see why a lot of people disliked it because they couldn't accept that the way it's a rip- off of Alien. But just because it's a rip-off doesn't mean this movie a bad. First off, I loved it even when the alien (or the monster) appeared in like 3-4 minutes. It has a great characters, the atmosphere, the editing, the setting. It has no much plot, but it was all that entertaining and just interesting film.My rating: 8.5/10

Directed by Sean S. Cunningham (of Friday THE 13TH FAME), DEEP STAR SIX is an enjoyable late-'80s underwater monster romp, which like LEVIATHAN was made to cash in on the success of James Cameron's THE ABYSS. DEEP STAR SIX retains the interest with a fleshed-out cast of B-movie characters making up the crew of the station, all with their own distinctive traits. The bickering and talking between the crew is enlivened by a string of deaths which, while not explicitly gory, are all different enough to be enjoyable. These include crushing, exploding, depressurising, being ripped in half, and electrocution.The actors and actresses are all average for this kind of film, they aren't given much to do apart from try and survive. The best of the bunch by far is Miguel Ferrer (THE NIGHT FLIER), as an on-the-edge nutter who goes over the top - in a big way! Although the survivors are obvious from the start (one of the girls is pregnant, which basically means immunity for her) and the film is not at all original (we've seen it all many times before) there is a sense of fun and lots of action to make things very enjoyable - and light.A good companion piece for this film would be LEVIATHAN, as the two are very similar, although LEVIATHAN has the edge in terms of horrific scenes. Also interestingly the ending is exactly the same as the ending of LEVIATHAN, with the final survivors surfacing and exploding the monster who returns for a final scare. Also, like LEVIATHAN, if you think one of the stunt men's names looks familiar - it's none-other than Kane Hodder! The special effects are average for the underwater scenes but pretty good for the monster, which resembles a big crab thingy and has lots of moving parts, and so it is quite effective, if not very mobile. It looks pretty anyway and its very big, so kudos there. Lots of action and underwater thrills mean that DEEP STAR SIX, while clichéd, is still a fitfully entertaining undersea adventure.

One of the major problems with over half the movies made after about 1975 is that Hollywood went haywire on "hating the audience". This is undeniably evident in the "sound" and "dialog".Like most modern movies, we can't understand more than a dozen words spoken by the characters. Why even have dialog? You would never know it was even in English if not for a few words that the actors speak slowly enough to discern, about how much a hen weighs, a part about "save yourselves", and a few lines from Ferrer, who is the only actor in this movie who can speak English.The sound crew, the director, and the actors are all at fault when dialog is this intelligible.We do learn from the action that they are underwater in some vessels that are destroyed one by one by a giant sea creature, and somehow there are nuclear explosions involved. Don't try to figure this out. You won't be able to understand the gibberish these amateurs speak.It is apparent that these people are modern day psychopaths, so intent on "targeting" someone to hate (in this case the character played by Ferrer), that there is a self fulfilling prophecy for them, which they themselves cause. The poor teammate isn't Ferrer's character, but the hero and heroine themselves, which was the "ideal" of the seventies, eighties, and nineties, the self righteous types.In other words, the very same personalities that would be great hijackers for 9-11. Make no mistake, it was 9-11 that brought movies like this to a halt, and showed these wackos what they were really like.It's a very sick movie, and impossible to interpret without subtitles. Poorly acted, poor sound, but the action sequences are done in a logical way, and it isn't totally repulsive, so it gets a 2/10 instead of a 1/10.

This film plays like the little brother of THE ABYSS with a twist of ALIEN thrown in the mix. Fortunately, it doesn't bog itself down like THE ABYSS by incorporating a tedious, needless social statement in the final 45 minutes like Cameron's vastly overrated film. Be that as it may, this is still a rather weak B-film with poor characterization and a by-the-numbers plot.When a group of underwater workers disturb the lair of a sea creature the monster gets its revenge by destroying their base and snacking on the crew. The crew are all quite underdeveloped, even the romantic leads of Greg Evigan and Nancy Everhard. (SPOILER) You know when characters are about to die because they'll start start talking about their New Hampshire farm like Cindy Pickett or greasy hamburgers like Matt McCoy.STORY: $$$ (This isn't a bad story it just offers nothing new. The characterization is weak because it tries to forcefeed clichés. Miguel Ferrer plays the doofus Bill Paxton character of ALIENS and the romantic link between Everhard and Evigan is too weak for my money. None of the other characters are even moderately developed leaving the viewer with little invested in the people on the screen).ACTING: $$$ (The acting wasn't the problem. Miguel Ferrer clearly gives the best performance in this film with his excellent, slimy portrayal of Snyder, the ever-picked-upon handyman eager to get topside. I thought Nia Peeples and Nancy Everhard should have changed roles because Everhard's character was a tough-as-nails Navy officer and Nancy, although she clearly got into solid shape for the role, looks more like a schoolmarm than a soldier--Peeples on the other hand, has the hard body for a female Navy officer but her line readings were way too fast. I felt like whenever Nia had a line I had accidentally hit the fast forward button. The other actors were fine. Evigan is okay as the male lead and Matt McCoy does a solid job as the goof-off. Ferris Bueller's mom, Cindy Pickett, gives a solid performance as the base's medical officer and Marius Weyers is great as always. His character really needed to be more developed though).NUDITY: None, but no female cast member wears a bra in this movie. They didn't quite adhere to their packing list before departing on this six-month deployment.