Review – The Neptune Factor

I remember as a kid begging to be taken to see this movie. I must have had it confused with The Poseidon Adventure, though in retrospect I can’t imagine wanting to see that one either. A cast of recognizable faces (Ernest Borgnine, Walter Pidgeon, Yvette Mimieux, Ben Gazzara and the like) mostly phone in their performances in this odd little tale of a team sent to rescue an undersea lab that gets dragged into the ocean’s depths by an accident. Once their sub hits the bottom, we learn two interesting new things: first, everything’s brightly lit and second the ocean floor is populated with giant versions of aquarium fish. Watching these pet store refugees gamely pose for pictures next to a miniature sub is the most fun to be found in this otherwise dull picture. See if desperate