Woodyanders The crazed Captain Nemo (robustly played with plummy relish by Sean Lawlor) wants to wreak havoc upon the world by turning the waves upside down. It's up to a submarine rescue crew to stop him. Sound good and thrilling? Well, it just ain't. Gabriel Bologna's flat and pedestrian (non)direction crucially fails to inject any real tension, energy, or excitement into the plodding narrative; instead this flick gets severely bogged down in a numbing surplus of drippy dialogue thanks to Eric Forsberg's blah and long-winded script. The mostly crummy acting likewise fails to impress, with the top thespic dishonors copped by the ever-wooden Lorenzo Lamas' stiff portrayal of the stalwart Lieutenant Michael Arronax and Natalie Stone's supremely grating turn as Arronax's bitchy ex-wife Liuetenant Commander Lucille Conciel (Stone sports one of the worst and most unconvincing British accents to disgrace celluloid in the last five years). The bland cinematography, terrible CGI effects (the giant squids are especially hokey and laughable), infrequent and ineptly staged action scenes, and generic marital score all don't help matters any. Moreover, this picture is too dull and lifeless to even work on a so-bad-it's-good kitschy level. A real stinker.

dhoral THIS....is a must see if you like very, very bad movies. Or if you want to hang around with your friends, drink a lot and laugh about bad movies. But be warned: THIS IS OFFICIALLY DECLARED AS BULLSHIT!!!Let's list up some BULLSHIT... 1st: ACTING! This Movie defines the word ACTING in a new way...also I'm not sure, if this Movie-Look-Alike should be declared as a Movie... All Actors are obviously made of dead Wood or other lifeless Materials...and the Main-Character (Lorenzo Lamas) performs like he hasn't even realized they're making a Movie.2nd: GOOFS! To bring it up to one point: the whole Movie is a giant GOOF!!! I don't know where to start...* Factual Errors = the whole Movie is an Error * Dialogues = what??? * Continuity = forget about that *I really thought, i've seen the most mistakes that can be made alongside making a Movie, but this one raises the Bar to another Level.3rd: STORYLINE! Jules Vernes surely rotates in his Grave. If he would still be alive, he surely had to puke all day long, caused by this Adaption of his really good Story. All Elements from his Story are turned into BULLSHIT. A Captain(Nemo)with an Ambition, that makes no sense at all. The World-Police(USA) coming to save the day...with their Top-Agent-Cop-Cyborg-Terminator-Marine-Navy Seal-Seargeant-Lt. Commander-Lorenzo Lamas. Inventions, that are so ridiculous and a Submarine...declared as Up-To-Date and new, but looks like it was built with Parts from the JunkYard...and things done, ignoring all physical laws and all discovered science...and we're not in a Dream!At last i can only WARN everyone with the words, spoken so many times before: AVOID AT ALL COST!

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.

ourdatateam Donot ever make the mistake of watching this movie. I got this movie free from someone and the person told me its a waste of time. I was told that this is the worst movie ever made after watching the movie, But I have had seen the original Captain Nemo movie a long time ago I thought with new technology it might be made better but after watching the movie I totally agree its not worth of watching even for free. waste of time and waste of a great story I have seen the original captain Nemo comparing to that movie its as bad as it could be the director did his best to make it the worst movie ever. and the actors they never let the director down by helping him doing the worst acting of there carriers