30,000 Leagues Under the Sea

30,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Adapted from Jules Verne’s legendary book “20 000 Leagues Under the  Sea”, this film takes it even further by 10 000 leagues nonetheless.  That is pretty far, isn’t it?

The USS Scotia is incapacitated and  is lying on the bottom of the ocean. Captain Aronnax and his small  salvage crew are sent on a rescue mission. Much to their surprise, they  encounter another legendary captain – Nemo himself with his mighty  Nautilus. Nemo greets and welcomes them to his submarine, but as Aronnax  and his crew later learn, he has some other plans in mind, not so  pretty and kind as they imagined.

Starring as Capt. Aronnax is  Lorenzo Lamas, and he delivered a really poor performance, to my  disappointment. One of the poorest, actually. It really looked like he  was bored out of his mind and didn’t want to this feature. On the other  hand, Sean Lawlor who plays Nemo was a real pleasure to watch. This is  the first film I’ve seen him in, but he is damn good. He actually  reminded me a little of Bill Nighy because of his appearance (or maybe  I'm just crazy). He was by far the best actor in this. The leading  female role is Natalie Stone who plays Aronnax’s ex-wife, and she’s an  Asylum usual.


So, if you look past the big plot holes and goofs   in the story, you will actually enjoy “30 000 Leagues Under the Sea”.   I’m starting to sound like a broken record, repeating this line in every  Asylum film review so far, but this is a decent B-film that doesn’t  disappoint in any segment in particular. And it has giant robotic  squids.

So, like, yeah. It’s alright.

/</gispan style="font-weight: bold;"/>/giRating: 6/10</span>

- review by Ventilation Shaft

External links:

IMDb

Rotten  Tomatoes

Recommendations: