This gem throws out all factual science, possibility and reality. If you can't completely suspend even limited understanding of what's real, then you're going to absolutely hate this flick.

The script is horrible. The acting is horrible. The direction is horrible. The special effects are horrible. The story itself is completely unbelievable. There's literally a complete lack of anything plausible or redeeming in this film.

It's pure comedic genius if you ask me. If each actor made $500 for being in this film, I would say congrats on robbing the film company for $495 each.

I do like catastrophe movies and natural disaster movies, however the vast majority of these movies turn out to be disasters themselves. And when I saw that this was a SyFy Channel and The Asylum collaboration, then I must admit that my expectations immediately dropped from mediocre to none. Why? Well, just look at the history of movies that have been spawned by The Asylum; not exactly the best of track records.

Regardless, I still continued on and progressed to watch "Oceans Rising", on the snowballs chance in Hell that this might actually turn out to be a good and enjoyable movie. At least I could be nothing but positively surprised by it with an expectation level of zero. But still, I was sitting with the impression that this will be one of those types of disaster movies where the entire world is in peril and a small group of people manage to thwart this and save the world from massive destructive natural forces. And that impression turned out to be true, and even the character Pam cemented that when she said "You're Earths last hope, Josh." Yeah, she actually said that!

And we are off to a positive start at least, with a cast ensemble of unfamiliar faces. That is something that I actually do enjoy in a movie, because I find it refreshing to see new talents, and who knows there might actually be some budding talents here waiting to sprout and impress. So that was a definite plus in my book.

One thing that really bugged me about "Oceans Rising" was the camera work, because the camera was constantly in motion. I loathe that kind of presentation of a movie, because it just has that whole home-made and low budget feel to it. Sure, some enjoy that; I don't! If I invest money and time into watching a movie, then I expect to be properly entertained by something that passes as a proper movie, and not by something that feels like I could have very well be the one who made it. So points off for the questionable camera work that was used throughout the course of "Oceans Rising".

And being a production from The Asylum, of course "Oceans Rising" came with some more than questionable CGI and special effects. But that hardly comes as a surprise, especially if you are familiar with the many, many movies that The Asylum has put out there.

As for the acting, well people were doing adequate jobs actually, despite having a generic script and weak storyline to work with. So they definitely had their limitations to struggle with in terms of having something worthwhile to guide them and steer them in the right direction.

I was somewhat baffled that there were no casualties and debris floating around in the wake of the first massive wave that Struck, especially with the sheer size of that wave. It just felt so amateurish and laughable. And even more so that it just came out of nowhere and with no alarms or warnings issued by the government instances.

Character-wise then "Oceans Rising" was adequate, at least in terms of disaster movies go. Generic and stereotypical? Sure. But they served the movie and storyline well enough.

Most of the movie took place on a small boat with a handful of people, so it was fairly limited in terms of story development, character growth and general ability for the movie to maintain interest from the audience. So this wasn't a particularly great accomplishment from writer and director Adam Lipsius.

After having watched "Oceans Rising" then I am still waiting for the day to come when a hundred foot tall fake CGI wave to come and wash me away.

Have made no secret in the past of intensely disliking, and even outright hating a lot, a vast majority of The Asylum's and SyFy's (near-universally maligned for good reason) output, though there is curiosity as to whether they are capable of making something good and compulsive about their output's badness. Admittedly, both The Asylum and SyFy do have a small group of watchable films and the occasional (big emphasis on that word) above average one, unfortunately outweighed by the lacklustre at best and often dreadful films they churn out.

'Oceans Rising' for me is towards the bottom of both outputs. Its sole saving grace is that, although very derivative and not that much different from other films in the disaster genre, it's not as blatant a rip off of superior films (even not good films that are ripped off look like masterpieces in comparison). That is the only thing that can be said slightly decent about 'Oceans Rising', which still manages to be dreadful in every way with nothing to recommend in its favour.

Just for the record, like what was said by me in my review for 'Geo-Disaster', giving a film the lowest possible rating is incredibly rare for me these days (before yesterday had not given anything in it for weeks), trying to be a fair reviewer trying to see the good in everything viewed. That rating is only reserved for films etc. that look like no effort or heart was put into it and like nobody was trying, a cardinal sin in film but actually not committed all that often. 'Ocean's Rising', and a lot of The Asylum's output for that matter, is one such film.

Visually, 'Oceans Rising' looks incredibly cheap even for something made on a low budget. It has such a drab look and as an epileptic the constantly over-kinetic camera work and dizzying editing made me feel ill and queasy. Not to mention the continuity errors galore. Even worse are some of the most laughable and pathetic-looking special effects to be seen on celluloid, actually looking they were done as an afterthought and on the small remainder of the money they had left.

Can remember little about the music, which tended to be intrusive, annoying and out of place. Even for The Asylum and SyFy, the script is so awkward, cheesy and improvisatory-sounding that it is enough to make the toes curl in how awful it is.

There is absolutely nothing thrilling, tense, suspenseful, emotionally investable or fun about the story. The predictability may have been forgivable if the film was actually engaging let alone exciting but it fails to be either throughout, and even coherence is not always a strong suit and that's putting it lightly. 'Oceans Rising' is basically non-stop dullness and intelligence-insulting ridiculousness, with unintentional humour because of the excessive cheese and increasingly irritating and illogical character behaviours that makes one endear to them even less in a film with not one interesting or rootable character.

Amateur dramatics pantomimes and high school productions have better acting than the all-round poor standard seen here, that doesn't even have dependable actors trying to save it or ones giving career-worst performances going for it.

Summing up, dreadful (a word not used often by me these days). 1/10 Bethany Cox