The Abyss (2008)

Also known as James Cameron's less successful tech-heavy sci-fi adventure movie, The Abyss still stands as a great achievement. If, that is, you can get past the fact that it's a wildly mixed movie in terms of tone, as the tense, exciting search-and-rescue mission never quite gels with the mystical alien mumbo-jumbo. However, despite the hell they went through to make the film, the cast (especially Ed Harris) is solid and the pioneering CG effects still look incredible.

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