New York Times Reviews ‘Deep Rising’

Matthieu Rytz’s documentary about the bounty at the bottom of the sea examines the fight over whether to reap these riches or preserve them.

Documentaries on ecological crises often begin by scaring the bejesus out of viewers before adding a note of tempered optimism. For ‘Deep Rising,’ a film about the race to mine the deep seabed (in particular, the floor beneath the Pacific’s vast Clarion-Clipperton Zone), the director Matthieu Rytz eschews shock for awe, and inflammatory rhetoric for measured persuasion.