Simply A Masterpiece

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

The Deep is another Peter Benchley success, this time involving treasure, Drugs, and mystery. David(Nick Nolte) and Gail(Jacqueline Bisset) are vacationing in Bermuda. They are diving one day, and come across a sunken ship, The Goliath.When they explore it, David finds a piece of treasure. Thinking it could be some kind of coin. He also discovers an ampule of morphine. Gail on the other hand has a run in with something that tried to pull her arm off, but got her diving stick instead. What it was is never know to the viewer? It could have been a Morey Eel, but what ever it was was big, and it almost pulled her under the bottom. When they come up from diving, Dave tells her about his discovery. When they return to shore and tells someone working on the beach, where they were the guy gives him a strange look. The guy gets very suspicious, and wonders why they were down roaming in The Goliath. That night when Gail and David go to dinner, they attract unwanted attention. During dinner a man by the name of Cloche(Lou Gossett Jr.) comes over. He introduces himself as a rare glass collector. He wants the ample of Morphine, but Dave refuses. The next day David and Gail want to find out more about the treasure he found, and info on the ample. They take it to the best treasure hunter on the island, Romer Treece( Robert Shaw). He tells them what they found is no coin, but a medallion. Treece tells them if they found the ample on the Goliath, there's bound to be thousands more. The Goliath was a military medical ship. The medallion doesn't catch Treece's attention as much as the ample does. So he, David, and Gail, go and find Coffin. Coffin was one of those that survived the ship wreck, and Treece wants to know more. It wasn't just a military ship that carried medical supplies; but one that carried a lot of ammo.Cloche also will do anything to get his hands on this, including killing anyone who gets in the way. Cloche first tries to kill Dave and Gail by running them off the road and kidnapping them. Then when Treece and Dave dive one night. Cloche sends his hench men to threaten Gail at their hotel room. While on this cat and mouse game of survival, they learn more about another sunken ship whee the medallion was found. Whit the help of Romer they find out who the medallion belonged to and the history of it and other treasures that are down there. When Coffin double crosses Treece, Treece's loyal friend joins in to help, Kevin(Robert Tessier). When they all team up the stakes get higher, and Cloche is right on their tails.This movie is excellent, not as good as JAWS; but it grabs you from the start. Robert Shaw is excellent as Treece, but to date Quit is still is best performance. I enjoyed this movie so much because of the scenery, plot, and excitement. The giant Moray Eel will get your attention, especially at the end. For those that love movies about treasure hunters, with action/suspense this is for you. It is highly recommended and you will not be disappointed. Since I have seen this movie I am reading the book. I want to know more that you just can't get from the movie. Don't pass this gem up, because your adventure awaits you IN THE DEEP.Thanks, Kris

A simple film of the 1970s intended to frighten you a little bit, to keep your interest with some suspense, and to play on some dreams about treasures and fears about drugs and drug dealers.The way there were spaghetti westerns there were shark-friendly sea movies too. That was just after Jaws (1975) and this film plays with sharks but without too much blood and no damage to humans. The sharks are only lured into attacking a certain zone by some drug dealing Blacks – who are naturally black of course in the drug dealing business whereas the whites are in the treasure hunting business, that may also be morphine – to trap the afore-mentioned white treasure hunters who are in the deep, well not too deep though.Then you just need an old French tobacco ship used by the Spanish governor of Cuba to transport the three key lock chest in which he is smuggling some Spanish King's lost valuable back to Europe while he is trying to appropriate them to himself at the same time. In other words he is a bad and thieving magpie of a governor.It all ends well of course. The Blacks are all killed or nearly, though they kill one white man and try to kill another one, plus the girl, because there is a girl of course. What could sailors do without a girl to keep them warm when the sailors are in port? A beautiful explosion of the tip top of a lighthouse and another of a sunk ship that creates some trouble at the surface of the ocean but NOT ONE dead fish. Dynamite is no longer what it used to be. That might have been cruel with the live sea food down there if a bunch of plastic semblances had floated on the surface. That's a pleasant change from serious British comedy like "Only Fools and Horses."Enjoy the waves.Dr Jacques COULARDEAU

You know, after having a bad time in finding this blu-ray, I wanted the movie to be at least average. However, it is not. "The Deep" tells a story about a couple that goes for diving and find some objects that seem to be jewelry from an old ship. That might be it. Some Haitians are interested in the treasure as well, so they try to impede the couple from getting it. In my point of view, the plot is completely pointless. The voodoo scene, which could be the ONLY good one, is just regular. A weak directing that sees no use in putting a background sound makes the "suspenseful" scenes just poor. Also, the fighting scenes are really really lame, and I wondered myself how director let that happen. Furthermore, the movie feels overlong, given that the story is uninteresting and characters are just lifeless. The only thing to be admired is the occasional beautiful scenario. Other than that, "The Deep" is just a waste of time.

I'm one of those folks who associated this film with Jaws, even though they are nothing alike, except underwater diving and Robert Shaw. An interesting cast included Nick Nolte, Jacqueline Bissett, Lou Gossett Jr., Eli Wallach, and Shaw, who was very good as the experienced diver named Treece; other than his odd accent, I was very pleased with his performance and found him engaging. Look for another familiar face in Robert Tesier, whose appearances are always memorable in other films he stars in. The diving scenes are very impressive, and it seemed the actors did the actual stunts, although this I'm not sure of. The killer eel added to the mystique deep below the surface, but most of the mayhem is caused by Cloche(Gossett)and his crew, because they are after the buried morphine bottles; Gossett is also solid here as he makes the most of his scenes playing a man who knows what he wants and how to get it. The location and atmosphere of this film added to my viewing pleasure, including the great underwater shots, even if they got a bit tedious after a while. If I were to recommend the Deep, I would say watch this for a solid performance by Shaw, who also lives in a cool house too. I believe he passed away not too long after this film from 1977, so that added a sad note for me, but he is the best character here. Lastly, it seemed an odd circumstance to end the film with a disco song, as it didn't fit, but overall, I was pleased for most of the movie.