Alicia I love this movie so much

ChanFamous I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

Ella-May O'Brien Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Paul Andrews Deadwater starts in Saudi Arabia where the USS battleship Nimitz is docked, Colonel John Willets (Lance Henriksen) arrives on-board & meets up with Commander Combs to receive his orders. Willets is only six months away from retirement but is needed for one last mission, Combs explains that a ship commissioned by the CIA for black ops interrogation has fallen out of contact with no word from the crew or the terrorist they were holding. Willets & his team of SEALs find the ship in the Persian Gulf near Iranian waters, they board they ship & find the entire crew seemingly slaughtered except for Willets son Colin (Gary Stretch) who has no idea what happened, why the rest of the crew is dead or why he is still alive. With no sign of the terrorist Willets assumes that he was responsible but it soon becomes clear that dark forces at work on the ship, dark supernatural wartime forces that have stayed hidden for decades but has been woken by brutal violence...Photographed, co-written, co-produced & directed by Roel Reiné this is also known under the titles Black Ops & here in the UK it's called Nazi Dawn on DVD, whatever name you watch it under this really isn't that good. The script uses the haunted ship idea also seen in the likes of Death Ship (1980) & Ghost Ship (2002) but manages to be worse that both, the script takes itself very seriously & there's not much fun to be had here at all. The mixing of horror, thriller, supernatural & Nazi themes are handled with dull aplomb. The only thing I can really remember about Deadwater is that there are lots of scenes of people walking around very dark corridors which gets very repetitive & very boring very quickly. The script tries to throw in some nonsense about Nazi's & them creating some ultimate weapon & has a confusing twist ending that is both underwhelming & relies on seemingly random flashbacks & sound-bites from earlier in the film that made no great sense to me & while I sort of understand what happened there's not much logic behind it & it could have been explained better. At 90 odd minutes Deadwater feels longer & I got quite bored, it's just people wandering around an extremely dark ship with a fairly mundane supernatural mystery element that never interested me or drew me into the story. I just thought Deadwater was a routine, low budget supernatural horror thriller with a weak script that could have been half decent but it's all so forgettable & dull.I assume this was filmed on a real ship as the locations look good even if it's often so dark it's hard to make out any real detail. There's some blood splatter, a few dead bodies are seen & a few severed limbs but all of the gore is after the fact with no on screen kills that I can remember at all. There's nothing that creepy or scary here & the supernatural force has no great reason behind it, why possess that guy at the end? Why not just kill all the black ops like the previous crew? Why didn't that terrorist guy reveal the major plot twist if he was there at the start & saw everything?With a supposed budget of about $1,000,000 Deadwater looks slick enough I suppose & is well made, apparently filmed aboard the S.S. Lane Victory in San Pedro in Los Angeles. The acting is alright from a fairly bland cast, veteran actor Lance Henriksen as usual manages to turn in a better performance that the material deserves.Deadwater is a forgettable haunted ship supernatural horror thriller that I didn't think was much good, a muddled plot that tries to be mysterious & a lack of any memorable moments sink it. Watch Death Ship or Ghost Ship again instead.

Jan Strydom Well, to say that BLACK OPS (a.k.a DEAD WATER) is Oscar gold would probably anger a lot of people who have seen it, but for me as a horror fan, it was like watching a movie with my TV turned off, everything that mainly took place in dark areas you couldn't see and the places that were supposed to be well lit, seemed like the light was cast by using very cheap bed lamps, honestly the lighting effects in this film are so poor adjusting your TV's contrast makes it look like your watching a fog bank, the storyline is uninteresting, plainly put, the acting seems decent but the dialog was poor so the acting is more shallow Overall, If you don't like a movie that mainly takes place in the dark and don't have an interesting storyline, well try something else of course.

griffmills To start with, there is a lot of torture scenes...beatings, dunking in water, etc....but no torture can match what happened to me...I sat through the entire movie !! I would rather had been beaten or drowned, why, oh why, did I do it? You get to see Katherine Rudolph kinda nude for a second (of course during the middle of all hell breaking loose, she stops to take a shower)so that was the only bonus. Dialogue was terrible, plot was weak...too much un-needed violence, C acting.....maybe they changed name of movie because everyone was ragging on it so much.....please don't see it...send me your money instead : ) But seriously, has to be the worse movie I have seen in years.

James Even taking into account that this is low-budget, Black Ops is truly a horrendous pile of steaming crap. Watch this at your own peril. The film combines an element of supernatural horror and an action/adventure military flick, but fails on both counts.There are better films that touch on the same current topic of Middle Eastern terrorism and the use of torture and extraordinary rendition. There are also numerous horror movies that are infinitely more satisfying.The camera work and audio are crisp and professional-grade. The storyline, dialogue and acting are not.1 star out of 10.