TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

TaryBiggBall It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Paul Magne Haakonsen Now, it was not because of James Cameron's "Titanic" movie that I decided to sit down and watch "Ghosts of the Abyss", it was solely because I have a historical interest in Titanic and her demise, as well as the fact that I had family aboard the doomed ship.This documentary, which is about James Cameron and his crew returning to Titanic, was actually rather entertaining.And it was such a wonderful treat to get to see inside the sunken Titanic, as it lay there on the bottom of the North Atlantic. It was especially great to me, as I had family on the ship.The documentary has lots and lots of nice images of Titanic. And it was quite interesting to follow the crew down into the depths of the North Atlantic and join them as they investigated the once magnificent luxury liner."Ghosts of the Abyss" is definitely well worth the time and effort. And if you have any kind of interest in the Titanic or the events that lead to its sinking, then you should definitely take the time to watch "Ghosts of the Abyss".

Michael_Elliott Ghosts of the Abyss (2003) *** (out of 4) Director Cameron's "return" to Titanic was this documentary with groundbreaking technology that hoped to capture images of the sunken ship that had never been seen before, Cameron was joined by countless historians, scientists and even Bill Paxton as they went 12,000+ feet below the sea to the final resting place of Titanic. This is a very mixed film because it was originally intended for IMAX screens but even then it was shot 35mm and blown up for IMAX so several people complained that the images wasn't nearly as good because of that. Seeing it at home you obviously loose the scope of the production but the images are incredibly clean and most of the time they're amazing. The crew are armed with the smaller cameras that are pretty much robots that can swim their way through the ship and reach areas that would seem impossible. The main reason to watch this film are for these images of the ship, which is pretty much just a burial ground for over a thousand people. We get to see the rooms of the Captain, Molly Brown and even Ismay but then we get to see even lower levels of the ship. The ship certainly isn't in the best of conditions as more and more bacterial grow on it each passing day but it's amazing to see windows still in place and one sequence shows us a bottle of water that is still standing upright. These images are amazing to see as well as being quite haunting because even though your eyes are wide open pulling all of these sites in, you have to remember the lives that were lost. The film runs just under an hour and it's certainly worth watching for all of this footage but at the same time there are a lot of issues with the movie. For starters, there's really not much of a story and there are many times when you have to question what Cameron was wanting to show or how he was wanting us to take what he was offering. Just look at the sequence where one of the robots pretty much dies inside the ship and we have to sit through the rescue. This sequence just seems like something that should have been in the deleted scenes section of the DVD. With that said, being this close to the Titanic is reason enough to sit through this.

glockwood I agree about the ending song, "Darkness, Darkness." Best thing about the movie IMO. Here's what I've found out -- the song was written by Jesse Colin Young (of the Youngbloods...wrote the 60s anthem "Get Together" as well). I found a used copy of Jesse Colin Young's Greatest Hits and it's on there, but his version pales in comparison to Lisa Torban's. She's the artist that does the song on the movie. She seems to have vanished. Had a web site, but it's gone. The ONLY place to get this recording that I have found is on the movie soundtrack, which sells for something like $50 on amazon. I guess it's now a collector's item or something.I tried searching for a download, hoping, hoping, but nada. I sing folk locally and would love to do a version of this song. Have the lyrics. Guess I'll have to come up with my own take on the melody. If you find out any more, please let me know! Georgene

serge PREDICTABLE ALREADY SEEN VISUALS. The problem was that most of the ship is all rusted red and therefore everything looks the same. Also a lot of this was shot with non-high quality 2-D digital cameras on 2 movable robots. After a while of seeing all this omnipresent orange-red rust on relatively small screens we don't know what we're looking at, where we are, and we just don't care after a while. The effects of 3D were rarely used except for the face of the russian submarine driver.