Escape Under Pressure
(2000)
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Escape Under Pressure
(2000)
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| Rob Lowe | ... |
John Spencer
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| Larisa Miller | ... |
Chloe Spencer
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| Craig Wasson | ... |
Elgin Bates
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| Harry Van Gorkum | ... |
Crowley
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Scott Anthony Viscomi | ... |
Nikos Gavras
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| Stanley Kamel | ... |
Sub Commander
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Mike White | ... |
Otto
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| Michael Cavanaugh | ... |
Captain
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| Michael E. Rodgers | ... |
Rupp
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| Tommy Hinkley | ... |
Carl
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| Joseph Patrick Kelly | ... |
Young Engineer
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| Adoni Maropis | ... |
First Mate
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Natasha Roth | ... |
Deaf Girl
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| Ravil Isyanov | ... |
Greek Supervisor
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Richard Cansino | ... |
Greek Hotel Clerk
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Elgin Bates, a billionaire art collector, hires a British sociopath to help him find a priceless, long-lost, storied sculpture. Bates's man unearths the sculpture in Greece, but it's taken from him by Athens customs agents and put on a tourist ship bound for a museum on Lesbos. En route, Bates's hired guns hijack the ship, start a fire fight with soldiers guarding the statue, and prepare to rendezvous with a sub in Bates's hire. On the ship are a scholar and her daredevil husband. She recognizes the statue and grabs it before the sociopath can. With the ship sinking, she and her husband are under figurative and literal pressure to find a way to escape with their lives and the statue. Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
Saw this on DVD as 'The Cruel Deep' which as a title is rather meaningless. Yes there is a lot of sea but it looked pretty and blue as it always seems to do around Greece. After a preamble in historic Lesvos and an unconnected bit at a water dam a simple and ungripping plot emerges that gives various actors a chance to show how bland they can be.
It also gave the film makers a chance to show how bland computer generated effects can be. When computer effects in films look like part of a computer game, well the game is up and inertia sets in. Why use real water pouring down ship corridors when completely false CGI water will do? Ask the producers.
It was a film where I was rooting for the bad guys and Harry Van Gorkum as the villainous Brit is watchable compared to the rest. The heroine is your typical 'I'm posited as a clever and capable woman but become more stupid and helpless as the film progresses' type role. Rob Lowe has a nice beard though.