Review – Leviathan

When word leaked in the industry that James Cameron was making an underwater action movie, rival studios must have assumed that it would be a waterlogged remake of his recent hit Aliens. Of course, history has shown that The Abyss turned out to be little like Cameron’s famous sequel to Ridley Scott’s original. But before anyone figured that out, at least two movies had hit theaters with the idea of stealing thunder from Cameron’s release. One of the two was Deepstar Six, and this dubious masterpiece was the other. The plot starts out with a mildly intriguing premise: that an old Soviet ship was deliberately torpedoed and sunk because the crew had been infected by some monstrous thing (as in The Thing). A crew from a deep-sea mining operation discovers the wreck and comes down with the turns-you-into-a-lobster-thing disease. Sadly, once the premise is established things rapidly devolve into a cheap rubber monster debacle. See if desperate