Suspenseful , thrilling and well-paced underwater adventure about divers who locate a a shipwrecked treasure and morphine . This is an intense and engrossing movie with agreeable performances and good rendering of maritime action . The hit smash of ¨ Jaws ¨ by Steven Spielberg prompted this screen rendition of another Peter Benchley book . It concerns about an innocent couple ( Nick Nolte and Jacqueline Bisset ) get involved in an underwater search for treasures in the island Bermuda . They descend deep into the big blue without the aid of any kind of breathing apparatus, though sometimes use scubas . The frogmen get excited when they accidentally discover what they believe is a vast sunken treasure. They find a shipwrecked galleon and a crashed WWII vessel plenty of dope . They find a historic wreck, but nearby is a wrecked ship with a large quantity of morphine . Romer and Gail want the treasure; their diving partners also want the drugs . Dangerous criminals realize the ship and dope are submerged somewhere in the area . When the bad guys learn that the couple has located the drugs, Romer and Gail find themselves in mortal peril . Exciting and well-paced underwater adventure about a marriage that in the process they are threatened and then must thwart the enemies. The team of divers faces danger when they attempt to retrieve goods from a Spanish ship , as they spend time in shark-infested water and are helped by a treasure-seeker ( Robert Shaw ) and his underling ( Robert Tessier ) and confront nasty drug-lord ( Louis Gossett Jr ). The four divers set off on a perilous expedition in search of legendary treasure of a mysterious galleon resting in ocean floor and take back drug into the ship .

The pace moves along nicely and production values are on the high scale . This is an amusing seagoing adventure in which the ocean deep figure prominently , though this time guarding sunken treasure . The action is plentiful with undersea excitement with terrifying underwater sequences. The film is spirited, lively and at times rather frightening light amusing . Made mainly as vehicle for Nick Nolte and Jacqueline Bisset , they show particularly in the technical excellence of the underwater scenes . They show off their considerable screen presence, both attractive and slender . Lightweight entertainment notable for sunny outdoors and underwater photography as well as Bisset in a bathing suit, a glamorous bikini and of course her famous wet T-shirt. Jacqueline Bisset fans will ask no more than the sight of their star in a swimsuit involved in this fast-moving sunken treasure yarn.

This waterlogged story is packed with gorgeous cinematography by Christopher Challis who manage to keep this afloat with fab footage maritime as expert cameraman ; furthermore pulsating musical score by the classic John Barry . The movie was spectacularly shot in Bermuda , Australia and British Virgin Islands . The motion picture is professionally directed by Peter Yates ( Bullit ) though drags in some places and is overlong . In the 2000s was realized a special remake of this story with Paul Walker and Jessica Alba in similar roles to Nolte and Bisset titled ¨ Into the blue ¨.

I guess someone saw the big box office of Jaws and decided that Peter Benchley's new sea novel The Deep would be ideal if Robert Shaw got to star again. He's here again, this time as a historian of the sea and part time treasure hunter who's clued in by vacationing treasure seekers Nick Nolte and Jacqueline Bissett about treasure in The Deep.

But what exactly is the treasure? As it turns out a World War II era ship was sunk and landed on top of a Spanish galleon. Both have different kinds of treasure. If they can get to it maybe they'll find those gold and jewels and pieces of eight from the days of the Spanish Empire. But what's in the World War II warship is explosives but also medical supplies which include hundreds of ampules of morphine. The local criminal in Bermda Lou Gossett Jr. is already counting the profits. Shaw's not immune from the lure either.

Putting the human players in second place is the underwater location photography and the sound which got an Oscar nomination.

The humans do their best and The Deep is a good modern yarn of the sea.

Based on a novel by Peter Benchley and written by the one-hit wonder author himself, THE DEEP isn't half as interesting as it sounds. This is an exceptionally dull movie, enlivened by only a few peripheral pleasures. Watching people swim about slowly underwater is one of my pet movie hates (which is why some of the Bond films don't exactly thrill me). I mean, it's cool that actors get to act underwater, but so what? Underwater scenes are just there for padding and take up half of this film's running time. The rest is taken up with dialogue between uninvolving characters and some half-hearted attempts at suspense when Louis Gossett Jr. brings in his strong arm gang to retrieve treasure for themselves.

This is a film that rightly or wrongly appears to have achieved (ahem) prominence due to Jacqueline Bisset's appearance in a wet t-shirt, which no doubt whetted the appetites of many an adolescent viewer. As well as Bisset, the film is visually superior with rich underwater photography accompanied by an effective John Barry score which helps bring out the beauty of "the deep". It's just that so little happens during the two hour length you'll wonder why they bothered.

Sure, there's an involving chase between a truck and two bikes, a cool fight scene involving an outboard motor (!) and a fun climax involving a giant eel and Louis Gossett Jr's head, but that's about all the excitement you'll get out of this movie (okay, perhaps Jacqueline should go in there too). Shaw seems wasted in a repeat of his salty old sea-dog role from JAWS, with an accent that changes every couple of minutes; Nolte is fresh-faced but boring as the young hero, and Gossett Jr. doesn't get to be near nasty enough as the baddie of the piece. Eli Wallach is similarly wasted. THE DEEP - occasionally fun, but mostly turgid and padded endlessly.