As with all of Herzog's films, there is an upside and perhaps the main reason to see the movie are entrancing underwater ballet sequences of the divers who risk their lives every time they plunge into the freezing...

Lelouch, who won an Oscar for "A Man and a Woman," has fashioned a tale of intrigue and deceit that has a vibrant energy that bubbles along with the style of a plot-driven Hitchcockian film of the sixties...