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Duane Byrge, Hollywood Reporter: Colossally ambitious, this logistically boggling and technically brilliant film from writer-director James Cameron is a visual tour de force, featuring overall, the greatest underwater sequences ever seen on film. Read more
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: The attempt to extract the essences of several genres (cold-war submarine thriller, love story, Disney fantasy, pseudomystical SF in the Spielberg mode) and mix them together ultimately leads to giddy incoherence. Read more
Geoff Andrew, Time Out: This overlong concoction is scuppered by dire dialogue, histrionic performances and maudlin sentimentality. Read more
Variety Staff, Variety: A firstrate underwater suspenser with an otherworldly twist, The Abyss suffers from a payoff unworthy of its buildup. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: The human stuff is more than worth the descent. Read more
Rita Kempley, Washington Post: I'd sooner believe that Moby Dick could swim up the drainpipe. Read more