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The Neptune Factor

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When an earthquake on the ocean floor causes an underwater laboratory to fall into a deep trench and places the scientists' lives in peril, Cmdr. Adrian Blake (Ben Gazzara) embarks on a rescue mission in his small experimental submarine. Along with a crew that includes Dr. Leah Jansen (Yvette Mimieux) and diver Don MacKay (Ernest Borgnine), Blake attempts to save the scientists from the unexplored depths, while encountering gigantic sea creatures that threaten their survival.

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Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews A predictable sci-fi adventure tale with little action. Rated: C+ Jan 19, 2019 Full Review Chuck O'Leary FulvueDrive-in.com A dull, lifeless deep-sea rescue adventure. Gray Lady Down tells the same type of story with a lot more conviction and suspense. Rated: 2/10 Jun 21, 2007 Full Review Brian Webster Apollo Guide More of a relic than a film that has stood the test of time, The Neptune Factor is mainly for those who like to see how filmmaking has evolved over the decades. Rated: 71/100 Jun 4, 2007 Full Review Read all reviews

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robert p What a awesomely bad this movie was. Showing regular sized fish as enlarged creatures was just bad even for a 1970's movie. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member This movie plays like someone dropped a toy submarine in a tank at the local aquarium and got an idea. Hilarious if you like bad science. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review Audience Member Silly and simple but a lot of fun. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Audience Member One of the most boring movies ever made. Characters either look out at the sea, drink coffee, or speak about how they have to turn back or life support will run out. They do all of this incredibly slowly. There aren't any characters, just solemn human beings bored to tears by the "life altering" mission they are sent on. By the time they fight giant fish (and no, using lots of close ups does not make catfish look frightening) the movie goes from boring to incredibly boring. They just keep seeing new types of giant fish and stare out the window hoping they don't hit them. The special effects look like they were shot in someone's home aquarium. Nobody looks happy to be in this movie, and for good reason. It's terrible. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/24/23 Full Review Audience Member Easy to make fun of, but not as campy or flamboyant as you'd expect-- at least not until the final half hour, when the troop of impossibly good-looking scientists (including as always, Yvette Mimeux, some guy who looks like a Mediterranean version of Richard Gere, and the great Ben Gazzara, slumming it) in peril half a mile below the sea with gigantic electric eels and goldfish trying to kill them! Nicely groovy yet understated wardrobe selections in sunburst yellow, electric blue, Mike-Brady orange... but no patterns! Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/14/23 Full Review Audience Member This was an attempt at something like The Abyss only 15 years earlier. It wasn't half bad for the first 3/5ths of the movie, as an undersea rescue movie, but once they venture into the realm of sci-fi it gets bad. The "giant" creatures are nothing but regular fish filmed at extreme close up. And they're not threatening or weird looking fish, they're average aquarium fish, and most of the time look like they were shot while still inside the aquarium! Add to that the fact that aside from the obviously toy sub floating past goldfish and lionfish, there is exactly one shot of anything to show a size perspective between the giant fish and the sub crew. I would have welcomed fake rubber puppet fish! This isn't the Abyss. It's not even Sea Hunt. They should have stuck with real world underwater exploration story and left the sci-fi to a film with an effects budget...or at least a director who can work with little. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis When an earthquake on the ocean floor causes an underwater laboratory to fall into a deep trench and places the scientists' lives in peril, Cmdr. Adrian Blake (Ben Gazzara) embarks on a rescue mission in his small experimental submarine. Along with a crew that includes Dr. Leah Jansen (Yvette Mimieux) and diver Don MacKay (Ernest Borgnine), Blake attempts to save the scientists from the unexplored depths, while encountering gigantic sea creatures that threaten their survival.
Director
Daniel Petrie
Producer
Sandy Howard
Production Co
Conquest of the Deeps Limited and Company, Sandy Howard Productions, Bellevue Pathé (Qué) Ltée, Quadrant Films
Rating
G
Genre
Sci-Fi
Original Language
English
Release Date (DVD)
Jun 5, 2007
Runtime
1h 38m