History Film / DeepRising

* CollidingCriminalConspiracies: There's a GambitPileup involving a thief, mercenaries, insurance fraud, a captured cruise ship and a pack of sea monsters [[spoiler:that's really just one gigantic beast.]]

** TookALevelInJerkass: [[spoiler:At first, Canton's plan was to destroy the ship as an insurance scam, but to make it so all of the passengers live. Later though, he uses the others as bait so he can escape himself, and tries to kill Trillian and steal Finnegan's boat. Fortunately, though, he meets his aforementioned KarmicDeath in the end.]]

* SuperPersistentPredator: The sea monsters continue to relentlessly pursue the heroes despite suffering extreme trauma from doing so every time. [[spoiler:The graveyard of sunken ships we see at the beginning seems to indicate that the creature long ago figured out that ships were easy to attack and filled with tasty morsels. This is probably the first time it encountered anything on a ship that put up serious resistance. There are also dozens of whale skeletons in the same underwater graveyard, suggesting that it's an equal-opportunity predator.]]

* SuperPersistentPredator: The sea monsters, who continue to relentlessly pursue the heroes despite suffering extreme gunfire trauma from doing so every time. One might also wonder why [[spoiler:the entire creature attacked the ship in the first place seemingly in pursuit of a bunch of microscopic humans, but this is justified if you apply a bit of logic. Something of its immense size would need to devour whales just to get by, and it probably mistook the ship for one. Plus, as it's a cold-blooded cephalopod, tiny meals ought to sustain it for a relatively long time. The graveyard of sunken ships we see at the beginning seems to indicate that the creature long ago figured out that ships were easy to attack and filled with tasty morsels. This is probably the first time it encountered anything on a ship that put up serious resistance.]]

** T ookALevelInJerkass: [[spoiler:At first, Canton's plan was to destroy the ship as an insurance scam, but to make it so all of the passengers live. Later though, he uses the others as bait so he can escape himself, and tries to kill Trillian and steal Finnegan's boat. Fortunately, though, he meets his aforementioned KarmicDeath in the end.]]

!!This movie contains examples of:

--> '''Joey:''' "He's right. You're right! I can just see the last asshole in saying, "Shit, Gus, we forgot the lifeboats. I guess we're just gonna have to swim for it!"

* ArtisticLicenseGeography: Despite both it and the finished film being set in the South China Sea, the script identifies the oceanic trench at the beginning as the Sulu Basin. As its name implies, it is in the Sulu Sea, which is all the way on the other side of Palawan from the South China Sea.

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Few of the protagonists sustain any obvious injuries over the course of the movie, with Canton's and Joey's leg wounds being the only noticeable exceptions. Who really invokes the trope, however, are Finnegan and Trillian. Not only does neither of the two get as much as a scratch on them - even their clothes remain completely untarnished regardless of being exposed to bloody water, explosions, fireballs and whatnot all over the place. Famke Janssen in particular ends the movie as impeccably dressed and as ridiculously gorgeous as she was in her first scene, hairdo and makeup included. [[{{Fanservice}} Not that anyone's complaining]].
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled:
** Entirely justified by anyone who attempts it, given that dying to the seamonster is a slow and awful affair.

--> '''Joey, tossing Hanover a pistol:''' "Here. Don't say I never did nothin' for ya."
--> '''Hanover takes the gun, shoots at Joey'''
--> '''Joey:''' "''YOU [[AssholeVictim ASS]][[LampshadeHanging HOLE]]!''"

** Joey is being [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown curbstomped]] by Hanover's men for being a snoop when Finnegan appears out of nowhere and puts an end to the fun by firing three spears into the wall...[[ImprobableAimingSkills right next to where Hanover is standing]].
* BiggerOnTheInside: Evidently, the automatic assault rifles used in this film - with a stated 1,000 round capacity, but no visible place where this amount of ammo could possibly be stored.

* BreakTheBadass: Some of the mercenaries, particularly and especially Mason and Mulligan, started to go through this as they [[NotWhatISignedOnFor never expected to face and combat a sea monster when they were hired for the job]] and eventually become distraught over the loss of their close comrades. Mason lampshades it with this quote:
--> '''Mason:''' "I don't mean to sound like a pussy, but this shit is startin' to freak me out, man!"

* CatchPhrase: "Now what?"

--> '''Joey:''' You mean we're all gonna die because you screwed up on the math!?

* EatenAlive: Everyone the creatures get their teeth into, except [[spoiler: Mason, who blows himself up, and possibly Captain Atherton and that one female passenger in the restroom, both of whom were yanked through such narrow gaps that crush injuries probably killed them first]].

* EnemyRisingBehind: When the DwindlingParty reaches the kitchen, Mulligan wants to hole up there for a last stand as he thinks that it's the only place on the ship where they'll be save from the man-eating giant worms. This results in a MexicanStandoff when Finnegan and Hanover disagree, but before it can get violent Mulligan suddenly notices that everyone facing him has an OhCrap expression...
* EyeScream: [[spoiler: Finnegan shoots out one of the creature's eyes on the boat.]]

** Canton wanted to sink the cruise liner so he could reap the insurance money, but when Finnegan accuses him of trying to kill all the passengers Canton takes offense. He claims that he's just a crook, not a savage; he planned for all of them to live, as they would be safely transported off the ship before anyone could drown. Ultimately subverted when [[spoiler: Canton decides it would be better for everyone not named Canton to "go down with the ship."]]

* FaceRevealingTurn: When [[spoiler: Billy]] gets expelled from the tentacle that swallowed him, [[spoiler: he looks intact from the right, but then raises a half-melted hand and turns, revealing that the left side of his head has been dissolved ''all the way through his skull''.]]

* FlowerMouth: The gigantic octopoid monster has tentacles that function like this, being closed until they detect prey and split open like a blooming flower to reveal an additional two-jawed inner mouth.

* ImprobableTaxonomySkills: And how, Canton! More glaringly, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoia the taxonomic group he claims they belong to]] is actually '''extinct''' in RealLife, being known only from fragmentary fossils. Yet he somehow describes its ''behavior'', which would be pretty darn improbable even from a paleontologist ... let alone, a cruise ship designer like Canton. [[spoiler: So it is probably no great surprise that he turns out to be ''completely wrong'' in his assumptions. The "creatures" are actually the tentacles belonging to a gigantic cephalopod-type creature]].

* MadeOfExplodium: [[spoiler:The cruise ship doesn't just burn and sink, it goes up like a Roman Candle, taking the sea monster - head and all - with it.]]

* MrExposition: Canton with his Ottoia speech (see ImprobableTaxonomySkills & SmartBall):
-->'''Canton:''' "I'm beginning to fear that our friends here may be some kind of strange offshoot of the Archaea Ottoia family..."

* NothingIsScarier: Employed for much of the first half, as the tentacles stay under water, bang against closed hatches, or move through pipes and the walls. Victims are also grabbed suddenly. We get our first glimpse shortly before [[spoiler:T-Ray]] is killed, and then get a full reveal after Joey notices slime dripping onto his shoulder and looks up.

** Joey gives a smooth "Oh, shit..." when finding out that the basement is [[spoiler: full of torpedoes. "Enough to sink a damn aircraft carrier".]]

** The reveal that [[spoiler: it's not a group of creatures, but ''one'' giant entity]] understandably leaves Finnegan and Trillian realizing just how much bigger their problems have gotten.

* OneLiner: "What are you looking at?"
--> ''shortly after getting the first glimpse of the monster''
--> '''Trillian''': What are those things?
--> '''Finnegan''': Real unfriendly.

--> "If the cash is there, we do not care."

* PickyPeopleEater: The creatures are interested only in human bodily fluids. They leave their victims as a pile of bone and digested guts.

* PunchClockVillain: If it weren't the fact that they're thieving and RuthlessModernPirates, if not brash and boisterous, the mercenaries would count as they are only concerned with completely their mission to force out the passengers to make way to sink the cruise liner, while being hardened, trigger-happy and somewhat crooked, they are not {{sadist}}s or completely unlikable (unlike [[HateSink Canton]]). Finnegan and his boat crew would also count (as quoted by Finnegan about his line of work, "If the cash is there, we do not care"), perhaps even more so then the mercenaries, with the Punch Clock side outweighing the Villain side. Also Trillion is a thief, but appears to be a affable career thief who is not much of scumbag like Canton.

* SacrificialLion:[[spoiler: The mercenaries, who were all killed by the main monster one by one.]]
* ScaryBlackMan: Two of the mercenaries Vivo and Mason.

* SevenDeadlySins: The villainous mercenary group seems to be made up of this: Vivo is always talking about food (Gluttony), T. Ray threatens with violence all the time (Wrath), Mamooli talks about his desire to have sex with women from every country (Lust), Jason Flemyng says that the group will "kick ass and take names" as well as taunts a monster and claims it is nothing (Pride), Hanover is paranoid, distrustful and later [[spoiler:ends up shooting at someone who is going to live and not him in a TakingYouWithMe attempt]] (Envy), Mason is seen stuffing money into his pockets (Greed) and Billy complains about all the work he has to do (Sloth).
* SpoilerTitle: Averted, as the working title of [[spoiler: ''Tentacles'']] was changed to conceal the real nature of the monsters.

--> '''Canton:''' [[FlatWhat What?]]
--> '''Hanover:''' [[AtLeastIAdmitIt Very quick Mr. Finnegan.]]

* SuperPersistentPredator: The sea monsters, who continue to relentlessly pursue the heroes despite suffering extreme gunfire trauma from doing so every time. One might also wonder why [[spoiler:the entire creature attacked the ship in the first place seemingly in pursuit of a bunch of microscopic humans, but this is justified if you apply a bit of logic. Something of its immense size would need to devour whales just to get by, and it probably mistook the ship for one. Plus, as it's a cold-blooded cephalopod, tiny meals ought to sustain it for a relatively long time.]]
** [[spoiler:The graveyard of sunken ships we see at the beginning seems to indicate that the creature long ago figured out that ships were easy to attack and filled with tasty morsels. This is probably the first time it encountered anything on a ship that put up serious resistance.]]

* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:When Hanover is slowly being eaten, he tried to shoot Joey so he won't die alone, only to miss.]]
** Before this, [[spoiler: Mason gets snagged by one of the tentacles and sets off a grenade when he gets halfway down its gullet.]]

** At the end, [[spoiler: Joey]] says "This looks like a nice place" just before [[spoiler: something huge starts snarling and tossing trees around in the jungle]].

* TheEndOrIsIt: Our heroes wash up on an island, only to discover [[spoiler: another giant monster lives there.]]
* TookALevelInJerkass: [[spoiler:At first, Canton's plan was to destroy the ship as an insurance scam, but to make it so all of the passengers live. Later though, he uses the others as bait so he can escape himself, and tries to kill Trillian and steal Finnegan's boat. Fortunately, though, he meets his aforementioned KarmicDeath in the end.]]

* {{Understatement}}: When Joey finds out [[spoiler: all the torpedoes]] and Vivo catches him, echoing his "Oh, shit", Joey points out :
-->'''Joey:''' "I am feeling a real lack of love here."

-->'''Hanover:''' "I ain't waiting for no rescue party, Finnegan."

** [[spoiler: At the end, the path of the unknown roaring creature is made visible because of the ''trees'' it's hurling aside as it charges through the jungle.]]

-->'''Joey:''' "I ask you, man, could it get any worse?"
-->''lights go out.''
-->'''Finnegan:''' [[SarcasmMode "Thanks, Joey."]]

** After everyone learns that Canton indirectly caused all this because of an InsuranceFraud scam, Joey shouts, "You mean we're all gonna die because you screwed up on the math?!"

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Canton and the mercenaries.]]

** Mulligan, overlapping with BreakTheHaughty due to Mulligan representing the sin {{Pride}}, begins to freak out when he realizing all his fellow mercenary friends are gone, the monster is cornering them and even [[JerkassWoobie sheds a]] [[TearsOfFear tear]] in light of the situation.
** Hanover as well, [[spoiler:when he is slowly eaten by the creature and his facial expressions shows him in visible pain without even screaming initially. After Joey gives him his handgun to perform a MercyKill (which he unfortunately wasted the last bullet on Joey in a TakingYouWithMe attempt only to miss) and he failed to commit [[SuicideIsPainless quick painless suicide]], Hanover can only scream finally in a mixture of horror, disbelief over the loss of bullets, and pain as he is eaten alive.]]

* BreakTheBadass: Some of the mercenaries, particularly and especially Mason and Mulligan, started to go through this as they [[NotWhatISignedOnFor never expected to face and combat a sea monster when they were hired for the job]] and eventually becomes distraught over the loss of their close comrades. Mason lampshades it with this quote:

* BigBadWannabe: Simon Canton is responsible for hiring the mercenaries to sink the ship for him to collect the insurance. However, he is upstaged by the sea monsters that infest the ship. [[spoiler:Despite the infestation, he still tries make a shot for BigBad title by using the others as bait so he can escape himself, and tries to kill Trillian and steal Finnegan's boat.]]

* UpCloseWithTheMonster: In the climax, the mutant octopus grabs the hero Finnigan with one of its tentacles and pulls him up to its face to have a look at him. This gives Finnigan the perfect opportunity to [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu blow one of its eyes out with his shotgun]].

* LampreyMouth: The monster, a giant mutant cephalopod, has a main mouth that is just a giant opening littered with numerous backwards-facing teeth.

* TentacledTerror: The monster is a mutated GiantSquid which happens to ''drink'' its preys alive.

* EldritchAbomination: Octalus, the monstruous sea worm.

* VillainousValour: Despite the infestation, the mercenaries are shown to be capable of this despite some of them undergoing the BreakTheBadass treatments, determined to fight their way to survival despite being picked off one by one.

* HateSink: Simon Canton. The monsters are just predators that live to consume, and most of the mercenaries have some redeeming qualities such as determination, being mostly PunchClockVillain-type characters, caring for each other except those not in their personal group like Finnegan, their [[AffablyEvil unique wise-cracking characterizations]] and being [[EvilIsCool badasses]]. Canton however is ''only'' selfish, cowardly, and greedy. [[spoiler:He's not so bad at first (having clearly established with Finnegan that he had planned for everyone aboard the boat to be safely evacuated), but he eventually tries to leave the other survivors for dead, then tries to kill Trillian, shrugs off the all the passengers' deaths because he can still scam the insurance agency if the ship sinks, and tries to steal Finnegan's boat. He meets a deliciously KarmicDeath.]]

* ElderichAbomination: Octalus, the monstruous sea worm.

** Joey is being [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown curbstomped]] by Hanover's men for being a snoop. Finnegan appears out of nowhere and puts an end to the fun by firing three spears into the wall...[[ImprobableAimingSkills right next to where Hanover is standing]].

* EatenAlive: Everyone the creatures get their teeth into, except [[spoiler: Mason, who blows himself up, and possibly Captain Atherton, who was yanked through such a narrow gap that crush injuries probably killed him first]].

* AwesomeByAnalysis: Finnegan was able to figure out Canton's plan based on the torpedoes and Canton knowing Hanover (who [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it) by name without explanation.

* AwesomeByAnalysis: Finnegan was able to figure out Canton's plan based on the torpedoes and Canton knowing Hanover by name without explanation.

* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Hanover reluctantly teams up with Finnegan (after threatening him multiple times over the last several hours) after he begins to lose more and more of his men.

* AccidentalMurder:
** Canton accidentally [[spoiler:axes Vivo in the head]] when he believes that it was the creature on the other side of the door. The trigger-happy mercenaries panic and accidentally shoot down a few unarmed passengers in response.