Monday, January 31, 2005
Movie Review | 'Aliens of the Deep'
Extending a Hand, Hoping a Tentacle Might Shake It
By STEPHEN HOLDEN
When the director James Cameron proclaimed himself 'king of the world' on winning the Oscar for 'Titanic,' who knew that he also had designs on the rest of the solar system? His newest film, 'Aliens of the Deep,' is a grandiose hybrid of undersea documentary and outer-space fantasy that begins on our planet's ocean floor and ends many miles under the ice crust that covers Europa, the second moon of Jupiter.
The movie's sneaky transition from undersea documentary to speculative fantasy of a journey yet to be undertaken is so seamless that you could easily mistake the last part for the record of an actual space voyage.
Filmed in IMAX-3D, this 48-minute film is a visual adventure worthy of that much degraded adjective, awesome. And when the movie is observing the ocean floor where lava from the Earth's inner core is leaking into the water, the strangeness and beauty of an autonomous, teeming ecosystem that has probably existed for two billion years matches any science fiction you could conjure...........
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By STEPHEN HOLDEN
When the director James Cameron proclaimed himself 'king of the world' on winning the Oscar for 'Titanic,' who knew that he also had designs on the rest of the solar system? His newest film, 'Aliens of the Deep,' is a grandiose hybrid of undersea documentary and outer-space fantasy that begins on our planet's ocean floor and ends many miles under the ice crust that covers Europa, the second moon of Jupiter.
The movie's sneaky transition from undersea documentary to speculative fantasy of a journey yet to be undertaken is so seamless that you could easily mistake the last part for the record of an actual space voyage.
Filmed in IMAX-3D, this 48-minute film is a visual adventure worthy of that much degraded adjective, awesome. And when the movie is observing the ocean floor where lava from the Earth's inner core is leaking into the water, the strangeness and beauty of an autonomous, teeming ecosystem that has probably existed for two billion years matches any science fiction you could conjure...........
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