Deep sea adventure from Peter Benchley's bestseller, with pretty locales and a masochistic edge. Scuba-diving sweethearts near Bermuda find a stash of morphine underwater that is guarded by a killer eel, but that's nothing compared to the trouble Louis Gossett gives them on land (he kidnaps Jacqueline Bisset and makes her strip, but we've already seen her in a wet T-shirt so that puts us one up on the villain). It's an unpleasant time-killer, made even more painful when TBS shows a special version with EXTRA underwater footage (to pad the running time to 3 hours). Robert Shaw is always magnetic, and director Peter Yates is usually a fairly snappy filmmaker, but neither talent can get this thing moving. It's waterlogged. ** from ****
Review of The Deep
