![]() ![]() The descent to the ocean floor, accompanied by much talk aboutdepressurization, will be a disappointment to anyone who remembers the suspensein similar scenes in James Cameron's “Abyss.” And the introduction of thespacecraft is also a disappointment: Instead of the awe-inspiring firstglimpses we remember from “Close Encounters” or even “ Independence Day,” it's athrowaway. Thehabitat's small crew includes radio operator Queen Latifah, from “ Set It Off,”who is on hand to illustrate Hollywood's immutable law that the first characterto die is always the African American. In command ofa Navy “habitat” on the ocean floor, next to the ship, is Peter Coyote. Jackson), abiochemist ( Sharon Stone) and an astrophysicist ( Liev Schreiber). The members of the team: apsychologist ( Dustin Hoffman), a mathematician ( Samuel L. ![]() As the movie opens, an expert team is brought to the middle ofthe Pacific, where an amazing thing has been found on the ocean floor: a giantspacecraft, apparently buried for nearly 300 years, that still emits a distanthum-suggesting it is intact and may harbor life. ![]()
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