This gem throws out all factual science, possibility and reality. If you can't completely suspend even limited understanding of what's real, then you're going to absolutely hate this flick.

The script is horrible. The acting is horrible. The direction is horrible. The special effects are horrible. The story itself is completely unbelievable. There's literally a complete lack of anything plausible or redeeming in this film.

It's pure comedic genius if you ask me. If each actor made $500 for being in this film, I would say congrats on robbing the film company for $495 each.

Have made no secret in the past of intensely disliking, and even outright hating a lot, a vast majority of The Asylum's and SyFy's (near-universally maligned for good reason) output, though there is curiosity as to whether they are capable of making something good and compulsive about their output's badness. Admittedly, both The Asylum and SyFy do have a small group of watchable films and the occasional (big emphasis on that word) above average one, unfortunately outweighed by the lacklustre at best and often dreadful films they churn out.

'Oceans Rising' for me is towards the bottom of both outputs. Its sole saving grace is that, although very derivative and not that much different from other films in the disaster genre, it's not as blatant a rip off of superior films (even not good films that are ripped off look like masterpieces in comparison). That is the only thing that can be said slightly decent about 'Oceans Rising', which still manages to be dreadful in every way with nothing to recommend in its favour.

Just for the record, like what was said by me in my review for 'Geo-Disaster', giving a film the lowest possible rating is incredibly rare for me these days (before yesterday had not given anything in it for weeks),trying to be a fair reviewer trying to see the good in everything viewed. That rating is only reserved for films etc. that look like no effort or heart was put into it and like nobody was trying, a cardinal sin in film but actually not committed all that often. 'Ocean's Rising', and a lot of The Asylum's output for that matter, is one such film.

Visually, 'Oceans Rising' looks incredibly cheap even for something made on a low budget. It has such a drab look and as an epileptic the constantly over-kinetic camera work and dizzying editing made me feel ill and queasy. Not to mention the continuity errors galore. Even worse are some of the most laughable and pathetic-looking special effects to be seen on celluloid, actually looking they were done as an afterthought and on the small remainder of the money they had left.

Can remember little about the music, which tended to be intrusive, annoying and out of place. Even for The Asylum and SyFy, the script is so awkward, cheesy and improvisatory-sounding that it is enough to make the toes curl in how awful it is.

There is absolutely nothing thrilling, tense, suspenseful, emotionally investable or fun about the story. The predictability may have been forgivable if the film was actually engaging let alone exciting but it fails to be either throughout, and even coherence is not always a strong suit and that's putting it lightly. 'Oceans Rising' is basically non-stop dullness and intelligence-insulting ridiculousness, with unintentional humour because of the excessive cheese and increasingly irritating and illogical character behaviours that makes one endear to them even less in a film with not one interesting or rootable character.

Amateur dramatics pantomimes and high school productions have better acting than the all-round poor standard seen here, that doesn't even have dependable actors trying to save it or ones giving career-worst performances going for it.

Summing up, dreadful (a word not used often by me these days). 1/10 Bethany Cox

OCEANS RISING is another dreadful disaster movie from The Asylum which is about a Biblical flood affecting mankind. The hero of the hour is a guy who builds a modern-day Noah's ark in order to survive impending disaster, and of course the powers that be don't believe him. The film is a mix of trite dialogue, clumsy plotting, bad acting, and typically terrible CGI effects; the whole thing is drawn-out, mindless, and a chore to sit through.