![]() A messy divorce is taking place between Virgil Bud Brigman (Ed Harris) and his wife Lindsay (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) when his work on the Deep Core drilling platform is interrupted by the intervention of a group of navy seals led by Coffey (Michael Biehn), she comes along for the ride as the platform’s designer, she knows all the tricks. Critics at the time derided Cameron’s film as being ‘more interested in machines than people’, but while that comment would seem right for all kinds of blockbuster films, it doesn’t apply here, with Cameron doubling down on one human story at the heart of a drama. Size, of course, matters, and the Special Edition of The Abyss is just nine minutes short of three hours long. Why has James Cameron’s film vanished, and is it worth delving into the murky depths to salvage it? Like another aquatic beastie, the Loch Ness Monster, rumours of The Abyss popping up for a week on Film 4, Netflix UK or Microsoft in Australia are all unconfirmed it doesn’t seem to be on Apple tv, itunes or most of the familiar go-to sites. ![]() James Cameron’s follow-up to his celebrated Aliens/Terminator success wasn’t the game-changer hoped for back in 1989 over 30 years later, the underwater adventure film has all but vanished.
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