This vivid undersea exploration for IMAX offers visual thrills and educational information about the little-known life living on the ocean floor. Director James Cameron theorizes that studying this fauna could help astronomers figure out what alien life may be like on other planets. He teams up with NASA researchers and marine biologists to find out more.
THEATRICAL RELEASE: JANUARY 28, 2005 (LIMITED)
Director
James Cameron: Director/Screenwriter, TITANIC (1997), ALIENS (1986)
Producer
Andrew Wight: Producer, GHOSTS OF THE ABYSS (2003)
Review 1:
"[T]his lightless, manless world is certainly worth seeing..."
Source: Uncut
p.133 03/01/2005
Review 2:
"[A]s Cameron sends objects flying out of the screen towards the audience or plunges us vertiginously beneath the waves it's impossible not to let out at least one squeal of childish delight."
Source: Sight and Sound
p.40 03/01/2005
Review 3:
"Cameron's new deep-sea adventure is pleasant and admirable in it very old-fashionedness....A voyage that makes use of the very grooviest of scientific and technological advances..."
Source: Entertainment Weekly
p.112 02/04/2005
Review 4:
"[A] visual adventure worthy of that much degraded adjective, awesome....The strangeness and beauty of an autonomous, teeming ecosystem that has probably existed for two billion years matches any science fiction you could conjure. "
Source: New York Times
p.E20 01/28/2005