Legendary flop which essentially put Lew Grade out of the movie business. So much of it is needlessly sloppy - a potentially exciting opening sequence of an agent finding some documents in the snow and then being shot at is deflated by cutting away to senior soldiers chatting about sending Pitt to rescue the agent and then Pitt rescues the agent (why not have the one sequence); then later David Selby and Anne Archer chat at the office then cut to them chatting on a pier... It's pointlessly sloppy.
Archer doesn't have to be in the film. She reports about the raising which brings in the Russians... why not have a spy do that? David Selby doesn't need to be in the film. There's kind of a love triangle with him, Jordan and Archer but they don't do anything with it. They should have made Selby a traitor or killed him off. Or a woman - had Archer played his role so there was some URST during it.
Jordan's Dirk Pitt doesn't do that much. He shoots someone at the beginning but then pretty much just orders people around behind a console.
The raising is effective. It was creepy how Jordan walked into the deserted Titanic. Why not spend the rest of the film there? They spend about five to ten minutes on board!! Then the boat is shipped back to New York.
Beautiful John Barry score. Solid cast - it's novel seeing Richard Jordan in the lead. M Emmett Walsh pops up.
But simply not exciting. They blew $15 million on stuff we only see for 15 minutes the rest doesn't look that awesome - there is some neat location work.
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