“DeepStar Six” is not a particularly bad film but the fact is, we’ve seen everything in it done better elsewhere. It’s basically an underwater version of “Alien” and it came out the same year as “Leviathan” and “The Abyss”. The problem is that all those other films are terrific so this one just ends up feeling rather underwhelming.

In “DeepStar Six”, the crew of an experimental underwater base destroy a cavern and accidentally unleash some form of creature. Now, this monster threatens to destroy the whole base. Time is running out for them to escape the base before it’s too late.

One of the big problems of “DeepStar Six” is that the main characters are not very exciting. McBride (Greg Evigan) and Joyce (Nancy Everhard “The Punisher”) are just so incredibly bland and we same to spend a lot of time with these two in particular. I much preferred Scarpelli (Nia Peeples) and Van Gelder (Marius Weyers “Blood Diamond”). I even liked Snyder (Miguel Ferrer “RoboCop”) and Burciaga (Elya Baskin “Spider-Man 2”) more. The creature looks okay but we barely get to see it. I know it’s good to hold some stuff back and not show us everything straight away but we have to wait far too long before we even see a glimpse of the monster in this film. “Alien” and “The Thing From Another World” all managed to handle that better than “DeepStar Six”.

“DeepStar Six” has some impressive sets and it looks great at times but it’s really boring. I just struggled to get invested in what was going on. It’s a much better underwater sci-fi flick than “Sphere” and it’s a better “Alien” rip-off than “Forbidden World”. If you haven’t seen “Leviathan” then maybe you’ll enjoy this as the underwater “Alien”. However, if you have seen that, I imagine you are going to be really disappointed with what’s on offer here.