Before the famous global successes Avatar 2 – The Way of Water and Titanic, James Cameron already dedicated himself to the cool water as an impressive backdrop with Abyss. The extremely complex filming almost cost the celebrated director his life during a dive and, macabrely, the film even received the nickname “Abyss of Death” on German television.
On April 26, 2024, the often forgotten sci-fi masterpiece will now be released in a new 4K edition with two additional Blu-rays, which you can get Get it now on Amazon * can. In addition to the cinema version and the longer special edition, there is also an interview with James Cameron, documentaries on the film’s legacy and a making-of as well as all sorts of archive material.
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That’s what Abyss is all about
The crew of an underwater oil drilling station led by team boss Virgil “Bud” Brigman (Ed Harris) is sent with the risky and time-critical salvage operation of a damaged nuclear submarine from the seabed in the Caribbean Sea, which was rammed for unknown reasons and sank in the Cayman Trench.
When the salvage work does not go according to plan at a depth of more than seven kilometers, the team led by Bud, Dr. Lindsey Brigman (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) and Lieutenant Hiram Coffey (Michael Biehn) are there unexpected and almost unbelievable discovery: an alien power that could change the fate of all humanity.
James Cameron’s Abyss is that good
At the 1990 Academy Awards, the film won an award in the “Best Visual Effects” category and was also nominated in three other categories: “Best Production Design”, “Best Cinematography” and “Best Sound”, but came away empty-handed. Meanwhile, Abyss enjoys an above-average rating in the Moviepilot community with an average of 7.2 out of 10 points and is ranked 21st in our ranking of the best sci-fi films of the 80s. In the FILMSTARTS –Critics even gave it an excellent 4.5 out of 5 stars.
The conclusion there says that with Abyss James Cameron has presented a typical large-scale project for him, with the fantastic story, the great technical effort and “a coherent emotional core“the work”far above the genre average” lift. Accordingly, will “perfect mainstream cinema with brains“ and offered the best entertainment, without being inferior to the director’s other films, and Abyss has also aged surprisingly well.
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