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Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

An earthquake under the ocean floor hits a lab on the seabed. As a result, it's umbilical cord to the surface ship is severed and the lab tossed over a sheer underwater cliff. Now it is so deep that conventional divers cannot reach it, so the only hope is a deep water submersible, the Neptune.Despite the film being about an ocean disaster, it's amazing just how static and dull the movie is. I think the main problem is pacing...not acting, as the actors are generally a very accomplished group of professionals. Too often, the director chose to portray the film in the least exciting manner....and I had to really struggle to pay attention or even to care.By the way, although I don't recommend anyone see this movie, scuba divers might enjoy watching some of the diving sequences...especially when the DIve Master is thrashing about in the water like he just got his certification yesterday!

No-th-ing ha-ppens for such a long time. So boring. It takes an hour just for everything to be set up. So much wasted time and dialogue. Boring boring boring. Oh, did I say this was boring? I'm not sure if I did, so I will say it again. BORING. Don't the directors realize that moviegoers want something to happen in the first hour of a one and a half hour movie? Boring. Since IMDb says I have to fill up 10 lines of review I will let you know for absolute certainty my true opinion about this movie, no holding back, my true honest feelings, no splitting hairs, no hiding the truth, unabridged, unedited, no reading between the lines required: boring.

For a movie about a race against the clock to rescue a group of scientists trapped in an undersea research facility that's been hit by an earthquake, The Neptune Factor is incredibly dull. The problem is that for most of the movie, nothing happens. Ernest Borgnine (who I'll give a little credit as he does his best with this snoozer of a script), Ben Gazzara, and company spend most of the movie on a slow motion tour of the ocean floor looking for their missing colleagues. Garzzara is the worst, showing the same kind of emotion usually reserved for everyday, mundane tasks like doing the laundry or grocery shopping. You'd hardly know from his demeanor that the lives of three people rest in his hands. And when something does finally happen the special effects are so ridiculous looking that the movie losses any credibility it might have had. The "giant" sea creatures the rescuers run into are little more than normal salt water aquarium fish filmed with a zoom lens and a bad looking miniature of the submarine. That's right – The Neptune Factor looks like it was filmed in someone's home aquarium. A giant clown fish – oooooh, how scary! There's nothing much more frightening than the sight of a ludicrously large Nemo.To say I was disappointed by The Neptune Factor would be a gross understatement. A good cast is put to waste with nothing to do. In the end, I've got to rate this one a 2/10.

Oceanlab is an experimental station built atop an undersea mountain in theNorth Atlantic somewhere off the coast of Canada. An earthquake strikes,causing the lab to plunge into an unexplored abyss. Three men are trappedaboard and they have only seven days of oxygen remaining.After five days, the Oceanlab team is able to call in a retired naval officer, Commander Blake (Gazzara). Using his deep sea submersible "Neptune II," itis hoped he can locate and rescue the men before they suffocate. The hope is a slim one; all contact with the lab was lost when the earthquake occurred. The submersible must face the hazards of deep sea travel, aftershocks, and somevery unexpected discoveries on the ocean floor.The cast is unusually strong with Ernest Borgnine, Donnelly Rhodes, YvetteMimieux, and Walter Pigeon all putting in good performances. The specialeffects are limited to model work for undersea shots, but the models are decent enough given the year of release. The film starts out well with the openingscore being particularly noteworthy. Unfortunately, once the submersible gets in the water, the viewer is taken for a rather dull ride for the bulk of the film. Suspense is largely absent. In lieu of pacing, the filmmakers subject the viewer to a lot of stock fish footage. While this was decent enough, it was overused and probably better suited to a nature documentary. Ultimately, the screenplayneeded some serious work. There is insufficient substance to make this workeven as a one hour Twilight Zone or Outer Limits episode. "The NeptuneFactor" otherwise possessed all of the elements necessary to make a successful and compelling adventure film.