Leofwine_draca 30,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA is one of those times that The Asylum move away from making their mockbusters in favour of shooting some cheesy adaptations of classic science fiction novels. Aside from the character of Captain Nemo and his vessel, this has nothing to do with the classic Jules Verne novel. The film distils a potentially interesting plot down to the level of a few characters in a single set exchanging excruciating dialogue. Lorenzo Lamas slums it, Sean Lawson hams it up as Nemo, and not one decent thing happens from beginning to end. Yep, this is definitely a film to test the patience, and even the odd bit of terrible CGI isn't enough to amuse.

CaptBryl I can stomach poorly presented Sci-Fi at many levels, but the horror of 30,000 Leagues Under the Sea has left me feeling - not unlike it's poorly scripted and utterly inconsistent villain - that nuclear missiles would be a suitable option in this case.If you're coming to this expecting anything similar to the novel or previous film, you're truly going to be disappointed. Jules Verne has provided the scriptwriters with a few names and after that they appear to have burnt the rest of the book.Poorly acted, poorly scripted, poor set-designs, poorly lit, the sound poorly mixed - with sometimes inaudible and overlapping dubbing in - this film starts off bad and just gets worst.The most criminal act perpetrated by the team behind this is the apparently complete and utter lack of research performed whilst scripting this. At the stage where the commander of a (blatently WWII era) battleship orders it to steam at over 70 knots, my eyes glazed over, my mouth dropped open and I sat vegetable like at the ensuing horror. The set designers are not escaping this in glory either, whilst I understand the budgeting concerns, would it not perhaps be quite easy to remove the equipment that is clearly and prominently marked with the name of the cargo ship they are filming the "Battleship" scenes on - I managed to spot a fire axe, a lifeboat, and a life ring all happily visible in the background, just turning axe and life ring around would have sufficed but no, it's this slipshod attention to .... absolutely everything that sticks the rusty nails into this rotting coffin of idiocy.In summary. No. No. A thousand times no!

sue-180 What a disaster! The plot is paper-thin, the acting diabolical and I wondered if they sacked the continuity person part way through.A stricken submarine called the 'Scotia' (as in Nova Scotia) was occasionally and randomly referred to as the 'Scotty-a' by one of the main characters, who clearly hadn't learnt his lines. The leading lady's bright red (or sometimes bright purple) lipstick was an overwhelming and ever-present distraction - at one point she was rescued (by ex-hubby, naturally) from underwater to emerge unconscious and soaking wet with lips perfectly coated in vermillion. Ex-hubby was curiously unaffected by the same water, which allowed him to remain dry presumably so that his buffoned hair did not flatten. As for Captain Nemo - he was decidedly camp which didn't sit well with his egomaniacal desire to destroy the world by nuclear annihilation.If you must watch this, be prepared for a trip to hospital to have your buttocks surgically unclenched.

swatkat61 Where to begin...where to begin.This movie is just plain bad...all bad. Every underwater scene looks unrealistic, the effects are terrible. I guess they really loved that low budget "light shining through a fish tank " trick since they used it in every scene possible. To bad there is no light as such at that depth. With the money they obviously saved in the F/X department you would have thought that they could have hired some decent actors. This movie was doomed the instant they put Lamas' name on it. The acting is stale, forced and very poorly scripted. Lorenzo Lamas' performance is pretty much like all his others...horrible. As for the rest of the crew they knew nothing of actual military procedures, terminology, proper dress code, etc..and I've seen better acting from an elementary school play (much, MUCH better in fact...and the sets looked better!) Furthermore, it seems that everything that could be wrong with this movie...was. First, the Scotia "nuclear" sub with a bridge the size of a walk in closet?...wrong. It also had the steering and navigation controls of a 60's diesel submarine. Most of the "navy" crew walked around in ARMY rank.(There are no full bird colonels in the navy) Also, the navy lieutenants wear 2 bars (exactly like army captain's bars) as their rank. And for some reason "captain" Nemo wore a mix of US Army Major General rank, what appears to be an air force aviators device and a mix of army and air force commendations...and as the sole leader of this underwater waste of time who would give him commendations?And, one would think if they had the "advanced technology" available, like the pointless "bubble-hammock", that they could have at least tried to make ANYTHING else look high tech. look at the scene where Lamas and crew are first aboard the nautilus...the bulk heads are made of plywood and they're CROOKED! Like any sub would be built this badly? Puh-lease.Whatever you do ,don't rent this action-less, mindless, thoughtless and useless cinematic piece of bargain bin leftovers. You'd have a much better time watching paint dry. We can only hope that somewhere out there is a movie company willing to do a remake such as this the CORRECT way with all the attention and budget requirement's it deserves...and keep the "20,000" in the title. There's nothing impressive about changing one digit to further indicate how far you've sunk.