Kit Sullivan

Excellent film. Director ( and star) Costner picked Duvall for the lead and could not have made a better choice. This is the way to make films. Underplaying the heavy dialogue gives it much more punch. Costner and Duvall give a masterclass in that respect

This movie was excruciatingly bad. Endless scenes of characters spouting exposition at each other followed by random explosions and long stretches of 90s-era not-so-special CGI effects of absurd fight scenes. The movie doesn't even follow its own internal logic: all the aqua-people are able to effortlessly jet through the water at very high speed, yet Aqua-stud and Princess Cleavage are inexplicably stuck on a rickity boat trying to get through a raging ocean storm...instead of just jumping beneath the swells and gigantic waves and swimming calmy while beneath the surface. The sea-dwellers have built fantastic and massive cities of super high-tech and advanced design, as well as apparently dozens of different styles of undersea sophisticated vehicles, yet...the military contingent ride around on harnessed seahorses, whales and sharks. Filled with ridiculous changes of character mid-scene, such as one character looking out the window during her first airplane ride and revealing how nervous she is at being so high up...only to have her simply jump out of the in-flight aircraft without a parachute, and without any fear. And if an undersea combat arena known as "The Ring of Fire" with accompanying flames and smoke seem to make sense to you, then this soggy movie just might be for you!