I had pretty bad expectations of this film. I'd seen trailers and read reviews, and it left me in a state of thinking 'Why the hell are they sending an astrophysicist to the bottom of the ocean?'. Luckily for me, they resolved that problem in the first few minutes, and from thereon in, I was pretty pleased with how the film turned out. Being unfamiliar with the book (other than its basic theme) I didn't really know what to expect, and the film kept the tension up admirably and kept me guessing to the end. I actually felt that all the main players did a good job, and even though the dialogue did occasionally sway towards being wisecracks, there was enough substance for you to actually care. I'm not sure whether it was quite worthy of the 9 I gave it, but I did feel it was worth more than the 5 point something it was running at when I voted.
In Summary: Very nearly a very good SF movie
In Summary: Very nearly a very good SF movie