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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: HARRIS,ED
EAN: 0024543036739
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 11, 2003
Running Time: 171 minutes
Sales Rank: 7031
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: August 09, 1989
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
A nuclear sub is lost in a deep chasm, and the Navy commandeers the civilian crew of an experimental deep sea oil rig to help in the search and rescue.
Genre: Feature Film-Action/Adventure
Rating: UN
Release Date: 1-JUN-2004
Media Type: DVD
Amazon.com essential video:
Meticulously crafted but also ponderous and predictable, James Cameron's 1989 deep-sea close-encounter epic reaffirms one of the oldest first principles of cinema: everything moves a lot more slowly underwater. Ed Harris and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, as formerly married petroleum engineers who still have some 'issues' to work out, are drafted to assist a gung-ho Navy SEAL (Michael Biehn) with a top-secret recovery operation: a nuclear sub has been ambushed and sunk, under mysterious circumstances, in some of the deepest waters on earth, and the petro-techies have the only submersible craft capable of diving down that far. Every image and every performance is painstakingly sharp and detailed (and the computerized water creatures are lovely) but the movie's lumbering pace is ultimately lethal. It's the audience that ends up feeling waterlogged. For a guy who likes guns as much as Cameron (his next film after all, was the body-count masterpiece Terminator 2: Judgment Day), it's interesting that the moral balance here is weighted heavily in favor of the can-do engineers; the military types are end-justifies-the-means amoralists, just like the weasely government bureaucrats in Aliens. --David Chute
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - DVD COLLECTION
Every time i see this movie on television i watch it. It doesnt matter at what part it is at or what time of day. I have to watch it. I think it is my favorite all time movie besides the Wizard of Oz. In all the years since it has come out on DVD, for some reason, i never thought of ordering it. Well, one night i am sitting in front of my tv and there is not a blasted thing to watch. The Abyss came to mind and as i went to my DVD collection it wasnt there. So, as always, when i really want ... Read More
Rating: - the abyssit
it is my favorite movie I had it in vhs and needed a new copy in dvd
Rating: - Classic Sci-Fi film - extended is great!
The Abyss is a sci-fi classic. Somehow I missed it when it first came out. I guess I was only 12 then. The only movie I remember seeing in the movie theater I remember seeing before I hit the age of freedom (16) was "Back to the Future III". Anyway, a friend recommended "The Abyss" to me so I checked it out.
The movie is great. Great actors, many of which became much more famous or prolific after the movie. Great story. And there is not so much science fiction that it gets in the way ... Read More
Rating:  - SIMPLY HORRIBLE
I'm trying my best to be understanding. This was made in 1989. So I'm trying to take that into consideration, as I sit here lamenting about the time I have lost to this pointless movie. But regardless of when it was made, this is a long winded, poorly made, under water version of ET or Close Encounters. It's BORING for about 4/5ths of the movie. The only interesting part is the final 5th, when they have their "close encounter". And that sucks too. Just a bunch of lame graphics, as if taken from the ... Read More
Rating: - Great Movie- DON'T get the Special Edition, get the Collector's Ed.
The Abyss is a great sci-fi movie of it's time, and one of my favorites.
But- The point of this review is to show that in 2002, squeezing 2 versions of the movie AND special features onto 1 DVD may have been a "money-saver" for the studio, but to have to listen to compressed 2-channel Dolby "Surround" tracks is torture if you have even a half-way decent sound system. (i.e.- not TV speakers)
The fact is- 'Dolby Surround' is not actually surround sound. Incase you don't ... Read More
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