The Deep

Dull undersea adventure that tried to capitalize on the success of the Benchley-Spielberg box-office smash JAWS (1975) by devoting too much screen time to an enormous moray eel as a supposedly equally terrifying watery menace. Plot concerns a young couple, Nolte and Bisset, who discover sunken treasure while skin diving off the coast of Bermuda. Among the relics they find a cache of drugs recently stashed there, and before they know it they are embroiled in a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse with the gangsters who stashed it. Long, confused, and boring, the excellent cast is totally wasted, especially Shaw, who seems cast (in a colorless role) because of his partici...