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Benevolent, powerful spirit gruesomely massacres officers on board an old Naval ship(nicknamed as a "Naval Museum" by the military)on Middle Eastern waters. Commander Combs(James Russo)decides to send in Captain John Willets(Lance Henriksen) and his team of Black Ops soldiers to see why the ship hasn't reported in the last several days. What Willets finds is a slaughtered crew with only his son, Colin(Gary Stretch), the engineer Slab(Robert Pike Daniel), and what is presumed to be a Muslim terrorist(Lee Majdoub). What the Black Ops team soon discovers is what is exactly behind the bloody rampage, the spirit of a Nazi killing machine, Gunther Neumann(Grant Mathis)whose power is "fused" with the ship, a concentrated energy which can possess humans, using their bodies as a vessel of destruction. So Willets and his men have quite a battle on their hands, to say the least. They also must halt the ship from entering Iranian territorial waters by any means necessary. Along with the Black Ops team are a duo of paranormal investigators, and we later learn of why they are on board, their mission is to "capture" Neumann's essence, to use it as a weapon in the field!

Look, I could pick apart the plot contrivances, along with the gaping holes of the script, but, when it comes down to it, the movie is about soldiers combating a supernatural force throughout the darkened corridors of a 60 year old warship. Black Ops soldiers consider their mission rather routine, boarding the ship in a goal to find and destroy the enemy, which is, in their mind, a terrorist. The whole Gunther Neumann storyline, I admit, is preposterous and really is a bit hard to swallow. But, the idea of a vengeful spirit attacking members of an elite squad seems entertaining enough, but when the details are revealed behind who it is and how he's able to move about, it's hard to take it seriously. I disagree with others regarding Henriksen just cashing a check with some non-performance..I felt he was quite well cast, even at an older age, as a strong authoritative figure who competently guides his men through a very troubling situation which grows more and more implausible by the minute.

The hurled insults about the lighting, I also disagree with. You are watching men marching deep into the bowels of a ship, and I thought there was enough light to see characters clearly. I think, in the case of "Black Ops", that the use of hand-held cameras works because there's a free-flowing nature adopted by director Roel Reiné, and he's able to capture the action within confined, claustrophobic spaces and areas where movement would be difficult otherwise. The violence itself isn't too graphic, and this could be used against "Black Ops" as most of the attacks aren't visibly shown in elaborative detail. The production history behind this movie is rather interesting, how the filmmakers put together a quick story, were allowed to shoot on a ship similar(..but not quite)to what the Navy has in their arsenal. For a "cheap jack" production, it works rather well. I, for one, thought it had some spooky, suspenseful moments here and there before the Gunther Neumann revelation rather sucks the wind out of the sails of the movie. The "Body Snatchers" plot element is worked into the plot and seems to take away from what could've been a rather intriguing actioner shrouded within a ghost story.

Oh when oh when will I learn not to let my absolute adoration of Lance Henrikson make me sit through even extremely bad films Ie. pretty much anything post-"Millennium". This brain-dead little number is no different. Attempting to tie a Iraq war film with a supernatural ghost story may work on paper, but this is not paper and the result is an absolute mess that's nearly unwatchable. Bad acting, bad special effects, incoherent storyline. One can go right down the list of bad film-making 101 and put checks down it. The sad thing is I KNOW this won't be the last movie I watch from Henrikson, i still believe the guy rocks. But it will be the last Roel Reine flick that I watch.

My Grade: D-

DVD Extras: Director's commentary; One night on the set; Alternate opening; deleted scenes; Trailer for this movie; and trailers for "War, Inc.", "Player 5150", "Day of the Dead", "Three Days to Vegas", "Jack & Jill Vs. the World", "the Amateurs", & "Rockaway"

the script was rewritten and the film re-shot.

The acting was watchable but the dialog was pretty blasé.

The director must have blown his budget in the first 20 minutes of gore because after that it was "let's turn the lights down real low so no one can see anything and generate some fear that way." Although the cast only had one woman, they still found a way to have a scene with her naked in the shower. If that doesn't speak volumes about this film, maybe you will enjoy it.

I wont spoil it for you with details but the ending sucks. You'll be able to guess what happens at the end by 0:30 in (military time).

Don't waste your time here, watch Outpost again... it's the same story done on a ship...

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.

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.

OK...OK... It's not going to win any awards! But it is a great study (listen to directors comments) on how to make a low budget ($350,000) thriller in 15 days. Shot with two Panasonic HVX-200 HD camcorders on a docked WWII Liberty ship in LA, the 15 man crew did an amazing job in the cramped sets they had to work with... which is why the lighting is minimal. But isn't that the way it's supposed to be in the typical "spooky house" (the ship) movie. The writers simply cranked the script out after visiting this museum ship...and they acknowledge that much. They simply wanted to have fun making a movie. One unintentional hilarity is the similarity to part of the plot line to "Ghostbusters".

Both OUTPOST and DEADWATER (aka BLACK OPS on US d.v.d. box) debuted as direct-to-video releases in the US within 70 days last spring. Both low-budget flicks feature heavily-armed squads of U.S.-led special forces veterans battling super-human Nazi ghost officers in exotic locales and being slaughtered to the last man. (The only DEADWATER "survivor" is a demon-possessed woman.) But while OUTPOST's Balkan forest bunker is semi-realistic, the stripped-down S.S. Lane Victory does not give DEADWATER's crew much to work with (check out the "making of" to see how pedestrian the set actually was before some lame-ass CGI was added). To compensate for this obvious budget shortcoming, the DEADWATER group make a couple ghost-busters a ludicrous encumbrance to the SEAL squad led by Capt. John Willets (Lance Henriksen). The ghost-busters' equipment--especially the soon-to-be-possessed female's backpack--look like the kind of crap the video store clerks used as props for their 20-minute shorts in BE KIND REWIND. There is not a plausible moment in this movie, the attempt at a "scientific" explanation falls flat on its face, and Henriksen phones in his effort (which is not helped AT ALL by the coincidence of his only child being a crew member on the torture-brig he's sent to rescue). I mean, c'mon, instead of trying to provide a reasonable explanation for how a WWII Nazi's ectoplasm got bonded to the hull of a ship, try instead to explain WHY the Navy brass decided the best way to investigate this odd phenomenon would be to inexplicably do nothing for 60 years, then pretend to reactivate the never-named vessel as a floating Abu Gharib (a phrase the script uses twice), bring an impostor posing as "the Ace of Spades" super-terrorist to be tortured with teeth-pulling, etc. by unsuspecting U.S. torture contractors, and then--after 80% of the crew is slaughtered, send in even more expensively-trained warriors to get THEM massacred as well (topping it off by towing the demon hulk into a U.S. port and allowing the only survivor to mingle with civilians prior to debriefing or quarantine). If DEADWATER is used as a measuring stick, OUTPOST is 100% believable and its doomed mercenary squad leader D.C. (Ray Stevenson) should get an Oscar.

What could have been an OK movie, comes away as a just a decent one. That is mostly due to the part they had to involved the horror part in it. If the they just left it with a secret terrorist interrogation facility which become overrun by the terrorist held capture. Which then the black ops come and secure/rescue the sailors etc left alive on the ship. It could have become a good B-action/thriller movie but no they just had to make it a cheap horror/thriller movie instead which then fails badly on the horror part and is just decent on the thriller part. To return to the horror part why o why do they continue to go back bad Nazi science projects gone bad etc so they can make kind of cheap horror flick. It's so much easier to market and make money if they just went with the average b-action movie.

Overall if you like cheap horror movies is for you. The rest well it i'sent any good really.

Its so bad its ridiculousness. Super Nazi from the 40s on a ship sailing around for 60 years? Everything is just badly done. The whole movie was shot in the dark as if they couldn't afford lighting. It starts off as a terrorist movie and if they stuck to that agenda for the whole flick it would have been better. But no, lets put those evil German Nazi's into the movie, no wait, super Nazi's. Sigh' its always the Germans.

Its an insult to the American Navy, the Nazis's (if you can insult those idiots) and the Arabs alike.

I'm glad I watched this at work while I was meant to be working.

It's hard to hate a film you rented for only a buck, but this one did it. First off, the movie and some reviewers too, called the obvious WW ll vintage TRANSPORT a BATTLESHIP. Normally I don't get too picky about military stuff, like that model of the P-51 Mustang wasn't used in the Pacific in WW ll or trivia like that. but confusing an obvious transport, with derricks around cargo holds, with a battleship that is only 8 times it's size and bristling with guns is a travesty of idiocy, even for a foreign translation. A gun tub with a 20 mm cannon or a flack gun on the bow does not make even a warship. Then the rank of Lance and other naval dudes keep changing, colonel, captain, general admiral. Do you need R Lee Ermey to keep the ranks realistic too? Then the ultimate lack of imagination was to make the nemesis a, hold your breath cause this is supposed to be set in our times, NAZI SS genetically altered superman from WW ll! Is he a ghost or some emag presence or or just some true superman is hard to figure out. But one scene towards the end has him in his little hideaway listening to some 1940's vintage radio covered with cobwebs. You mean after 60 plus years no one caught him in his little home away from home on a naval vessel? He has fantastic powers of dismemberment, he did most of the original crew in by tearing them apart then displays some sort of mind control and body jumping skills too at the end. Like they were filming the scene and what ever cheap sci fi - supernatural trick they could come up was used in that scene. After the first 15 minute everything was done in dark in below deck. About the only thing I can admire about them was that they did get a real transport for a at least a couple live action scenes.

They also through some scenes in the beginning where our guys were brutally torturing some Iraqi terrorists, who of course is well educated in our colleges and speaks great English too. So there is supposed to be parallelism between our bad boys behavior and this super Aryan spook. This gives one of our good guys, some naval rating, a chance to confront the badder of our guys to show that real Americans have heart. This rating is supposed to be Lance's son who Lance and his SEAL? team are sent onto the ship to rescue. But in another scene both Lance and his son are punching out some ghost hunter CIA? dude who knows more than he's letting on, I guess. They are punching him out in a room full of model ships and displays like the type kids and vets build to show in the mall. What dreck In spite of all this, the movie's ending is still confusing and I couldn't give it away because it was just too lame. Do not, I mean do not, go 1" out of your way to watch this direct to DVD mess!

What is this? A monster, a ghost, an evil spirit, or an extra-terrorists? Ridiculous would be a good descriptions for whatever the story is.

The Writer/Producer/Director has some short-circus moments, the main plot is interested if this is an X-file alien story, but the plot and common sense of the story are just way too naive, and that is a kind word for this one.

Even if it is a TV show, I still would say, go watch a sport game would be better off this one, waste my roommate's money and he talked me into this indescribable movie.

10 thumbs down.

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.

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.

It comes close to being the worst movie I've seen this year. Lance Henriksen must have lost a bet or been really desperate to make his car payment to appear in this. His acting is okay, given the crap script but the male lead has all the charisma of his favorite weapon, a shovel. The girl was a stupid and pointless character, only there to star in a brief topless shower scene. And the villain? Well it turns out it's the good ole USA since nothing but the guiding spirit of an undead Nazi super-soldier could possibly explain the liberation of Iraq or the War on Terror, right? Evidently a totally different writer took over for the last ten minutes of the film or else he ran out of coke and ideas.

This might be worthwhile to rag on with friends or if you're a big fan of Henriksen (the reason I watched) or the female lead (Kate Randolph looks too skinny here), but otherwise stay away. As horror or anything else it fails. Even the gore was hilariously inept such as someone with a freshly stabbed eyesocket that looks like rubber with dried blood on it. And it reminded me a little of the old teen slasher flicks since the girl decides to shower in the midst of the gory murder and mayhem and has no gun or protection while she does it.

I would give it a 5 out of 10 as far as rated b movies are concerned. Maybe even a 6 if you add munchies. It reminds me of the video game wolfenstein. One slight naked scene with the beautiful Katherine Randolph's .

You have your WWII-era battleship an evil Nazi entity, enormous amounts of bloody body parts, dead corpse hanging upside down. At first I couldn't figure out who killed everyone on the waters and how did they escape or did they? To find out as the movie progressed it might be a ghost! How do you fight a supernatural being? you'll have to watch the movie. don't forget the popcorn! definitely watchable.

Or is it "onboard"? Well whatever it is (and emphasis on the "it"), there are far better efforts out there than this one. It tries pretty hard and unfortunately thinks it's more clever than it is. Still with no expectations at all, you might have a somewhat rewarding experience ... On the other hand, you could do a lot better with your time and watch a Lance Henriksen movie, where the movie is good too.

It's shot nicely though and there are a few nice scares (though it does suffer as some movies, from a strong beginning and very fast drop after that). The effects are good too, but that's almost it. A friend of mine told me, that there might be a music "mistake" at the end too. But why bother looking for a mistake like that?

The Horror Channel announced this film was NAZI DAWN I had no idea what NAZI DAWN was about so looked up it on this site . Some silly story about six chicks getting involved with dead fascists . If nothing else it was a very recent film and I'd have the dubious privilege in being the first reviewer on the page . I did think it slightly strange that for a film where the protagonists were going to be slutty teenagers it starts on board a ship in the present day Persian Gulf . Within 20 minutes I started thinking there was a blooper somewhere and looked up the film roles of Lance Henriksen and Gary Stretch because this almost certainly wasn't the film that the Horror Channel claimed they were broadcasting .. And it wasn't , it was a 2008 film called BLACK OPS

I'll watch NAZI DAWN whenever it gets broadcast and compare it to this one and in the meantime wonder if it might be better than this one which is a dark horror thriller . When I say " dark " I don't mean it has a gloomy downbeat atmosphere I mean someone has failed to pay the electricity bill which means it's almost impossible to see what is going on so you just have to concentrate on the dialogue which isn't up to much . By concentrating on what is being said you do notice something very unlikely and that is Henriksen and Stretch play characters of father and son . What's unlikely about this you ask ? Absolutely nothing except Henriksen talks with a heavy American accent and Stretch talks with a broad English accent . If you are expecting an explanation for this your hopes are raised when father character starts mentioning his wife and family and you expect him to say he sent his son off to public school in England but this goes totally unresolved and the story continues as the audience wander around in the dark on a visual and narrative level in this generic and muddled horror thriller