Dark Descent is basically an underwater version of the 1981's Sean Connery lead sci-fi thriller OUTLAND that is set in space. Outland is excellent & my favourite Connery film by far, also it was directed by cult movie director Peter Hyams, so all good in my opinion.
2002's low-budget B-movie version of Outland has taken a very similar story, but not a total copy, & set it at the bottom of the Ocean in a claustrophobic mining base where the workers are going crazy & killing themselves & other's.
In the officer of law role, just like Sean Connery, is the nearly always likeable Dean Cain (Dragon Fighter, BOA, Superman 90's series) as the good guy & Marshall of the underwater base. Dean plays a good part & is very likeable & actually creates a character you want to survive.
Dean Cain never made it "Big" as in a Blockbuster action star & it's a shame because he's really good & very likeable & better than most of todays leading men action stars!!! Cain made a full career as a B-movie actor & that's fine, he's been around for ages & had stocked up the video rental shelves of Blockbuster for years back in the good old days. Although Cain is a direct-to-video actor that doesn't mean he's not good, because he is good on screen & i like him in Dark Descent best.
I love B-movies & especially sci-fi ones made on small budgets but with a good heart & story behind it & that's what this has. The fx are cheap early 2000's CGI (adds to it's early 2000's charm) for the underwater & sci-fi stuff, such as the underwater futuristic compound base, but the rest of it inside the interiors is very well done & looks really cool. Dark Descent is a sci-fi mystery thriller with bursts of action sprinkled throughout, but i like its chill vibe & watching Dean wondering around the corridors of the big compound. A very good B-movie in my opinion anyway.
There's a level of suspense as Dean's Anxiety fueled Marshall Will Murdock is trying to investigate these bizarre suicidal deaths as well as having a bunch of thugs on their way to murder him for revenge for a previous matter (you'll see in the beginning of the film) & the setting is claustrophobic & has a dark sci-fi look to it.
Also stars Scott Wiper (A Better Way To Die) as Murdocks wimpy partner Niles.
I totally dig Dark Descent as it's such a fun late-night movie with a great lead in Dean Cain as a very likeable character with his Will Murdock.
2002's low-budget B-movie version of Outland has taken a very similar story, but not a total copy, & set it at the bottom of the Ocean in a claustrophobic mining base where the workers are going crazy & killing themselves & other's.
In the officer of law role, just like Sean Connery, is the nearly always likeable Dean Cain (Dragon Fighter, BOA, Superman 90's series) as the good guy & Marshall of the underwater base. Dean plays a good part & is very likeable & actually creates a character you want to survive.
Dean Cain never made it "Big" as in a Blockbuster action star & it's a shame because he's really good & very likeable & better than most of todays leading men action stars!!! Cain made a full career as a B-movie actor & that's fine, he's been around for ages & had stocked up the video rental shelves of Blockbuster for years back in the good old days. Although Cain is a direct-to-video actor that doesn't mean he's not good, because he is good on screen & i like him in Dark Descent best.
I love B-movies & especially sci-fi ones made on small budgets but with a good heart & story behind it & that's what this has. The fx are cheap early 2000's CGI (adds to it's early 2000's charm) for the underwater & sci-fi stuff, such as the underwater futuristic compound base, but the rest of it inside the interiors is very well done & looks really cool. Dark Descent is a sci-fi mystery thriller with bursts of action sprinkled throughout, but i like its chill vibe & watching Dean wondering around the corridors of the big compound. A very good B-movie in my opinion anyway.
There's a level of suspense as Dean's Anxiety fueled Marshall Will Murdock is trying to investigate these bizarre suicidal deaths as well as having a bunch of thugs on their way to murder him for revenge for a previous matter (you'll see in the beginning of the film) & the setting is claustrophobic & has a dark sci-fi look to it.
Also stars Scott Wiper (A Better Way To Die) as Murdocks wimpy partner Niles.
I totally dig Dark Descent as it's such a fun late-night movie with a great lead in Dean Cain as a very likeable character with his Will Murdock.