Decided to give this a watch after seeing it on another list of curated movies. It's definitely dated considerably as the acting in many, many scenes is just completely awful. At one point, "Lindsey" (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) is trying to convince "Bud" (her ex- or soon-to-be-ex played by Ed Harris) of this underwater apparition that she saw; I don't know what was supposed to be portrayed in that one scene but the only thing she portrayed was a total lack of professionalism: she couldn't get through one scene without looking like she was about to burst into laughter. Yeah, a goofy smile that looks on the verge of cracking up really portrays the gravity of such a situation. Stupid scenes like that, coupled with hack "street jargon" in a dire situation ( "Yo', lay dat 9/16ths on me, will ya?"_) just cheapened the whole movie. I'm not even halfway through it yet but already compiling a list of reasons to not ever sit through this one. It may have been a James Cameron uber-film back in its day but it hasn't aged well at all. I know it's unfair to judge films by today's standards but honestly, this one...well, the bottom line is it simply didn't age all that gracefully.

Just finished this and overall I found it really convoluted, confusing, difficult to follow...and for a "sci-fi" film, the weird alien-type creatures were practically a cameo. You saw them...then you didn't...until the cheesy (but oh so predictable) ending, which took a little bit of the stench away...but yeah, it was pretty cheesy.

I can't say I would recommend this to anyone. It wasn't a "bad" movie (most of it, anyway) but again, by today's standards, there are just too many other good movies to watch. James Cameron or not, this just wasn't a very good film.