Clive Cussler's best-selling action novels about the globe-trotting escapades of Dirk Pitt, the man from NUMA (National Underwater & Marine Agency) are light, boy's-own adventures filled with preposterous derring-do and studded with nuggets of historical and geopolitical fact. So you have to question the wisdom of optioning a Cussler book and hiring a pack of writers to transform it into generic drivel — surely it would have been cheaper to commission original claptrap. Cussler's strong suit, after all, is keeping the plot developments coming so thick and fast you don't have time to wonder why an experienced field doctor would casually stuff latex gloves contaminated...
Released:
2005
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
127 mins