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video essential is a clear attempt to cash in the success of Jaws, the 1977 was also a thriller based on a best-seller by Peter Benchley, and features a memorable performance by Robert Shaw (the doomed shark hunter in Jaws) in one of the last roles of his career. Looking very tanned and healthy, Nick Nolte and Jacqueline Bisset play a young couple enjoying a tropical vacation who discover a glass ampoule while scuba diving off Bermuda. It takes a treasure hunter, seasoned (Shaw) to identify the bulb as part of a shipment of World War II morphine lost at sea, coincidentally, at the top, the greatest wealth of a Spanish galleon sank. Thus begins a race to the treasure for drugs and pitting Nolte, Bisset, and Shaw thank you against a drug lord (Louis Gossett Jr.), who will do anything - even resort to Haitian voodoo - to get to this wish. It 's a little hard and working (after all, the film's most famous for Bisset de Wet T-shirt-diving), but…
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A large rock hit the earth, and many people die. That's all there is to do, and most of that was in the trailer. Can a Hollywood movie really squeak by with such a thin excuse for a premise? The former king of disaster movies, cheese-Meister Irwin Allen (The Poseidon Adventure, Earthquake), would have done this a kitsch classic, with Charlton Heston, rather than a resignation mumbly and Robert Duvall, as the veteran astronaut of many lives risk trying to skip the comet that is headed right this way! Steep as directed by Mimi Leder, this slice of ham thick of an error on the side of solemnity. May be more severe end of the world, as Stanley Kramer drama Atomic punishment on the beach. There are a couple of classic melodramatic flourishes: a father and daughter who share a tearful reconciliation as a Godzilla-sized tidal wave looms on the horizon, and an astronaut, communicating on video with his family on Earth…
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