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17 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 60Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasLos Angeles TimesKevin ThomasAn unpretentious, amusing thrill-a-minute sci-fi horror thriller / monster movie that plugs right into fears of a Y2K crisis.
- 50TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghTV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghThe script, based on a Dark Horse comic-book series, is hugely predictable, but the robot effects by veteran Phil Tippett are nastily entertaining.
- 30L.A. WeeklyL.A. WeeklyFX whiz John Bruno (Terminator 2, True Lies) makes a dubious directorial debut here, juggling monsters that are icky but not scary; an out-of-control Donald Sutherland as the tug’s Ahabesque captain.
- 30Film ThreatFilm ThreatThe plot itself is a disappointingly gory concatenation of two recently forgettable sci-fi thrillers; "Hardware" and "Event Horizon."
- 30The New York TimesLawrence Van GelderThe New York TimesLawrence Van GelderAs long on adrenaline and special effects as it is short on genuine novelty and intellectual content.
- 25ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames Berardinelli95 minutes of unrelieved tedium.
- 25USA TodayAndy SeilerUSA TodayAndy SeilerThe movie was postponed from 1998 and shielded from critics. (They were ot allowed to see the movie before the opening, usually a bid sign.) [15 January 1999, Life, p.8E]
- 25Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert"Deep Rising" was one of the worst movies of 1998. Virus is easily worse.
- 25San Francisco ChronicleBob GrahamSan Francisco ChronicleBob GrahamNo one is likely to claim it's a great, or even good, movie, but it does offer some guilty pleasures.
- 0The A.V. ClubNathan RabinThe A.V. ClubNathan RabinThis suspense-free, originality-deprived mess will likely be a major contender for the title of 1999's worst film.