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Air Force One goes down thanks to some harsh weather and the Navy sends an elite team to the Bermuda Triangle to rescue the president (John Savage). He made it out in the standard issue presidential rescue pod before the plane exploded but he’s running out of oxygen, so time is of the utmost importance. Linda Hamilton (good to see her) leads the team and has an issue with her squad chief Trip Oliver’s risk-taking attitude. Almost immediately, they’re attacked by big-ass tentacles belonging to god-knows-what. Luckily, Jamie Kennedy (as a scientist who looks like that uncle of yours that was a writer/painter and took his own life in the family cabin back in ‘82) is there to explain that they’re some unknown form of tubeworms and not the tentacles promised by the title. A tense stand-off ends when they start impaling as many seamen as they can. They manage to fight them off with some heavy losses on their side and then go on with their mission. Diving deep into the dangerous waters to save the commander in chief in an experimental submersible called the Prometheus, the team ignores orders and goes on the rescue mission without any major firepower. That Trip, such a renegade. Dr. Jamie Kennedy figures out that, yes, they are tubeworm-like but they’re also tentacles because they’re appendages of something much bigger that is not anything of terrestrial origin. Turns out there’s a colossal alien city at the bottom of the sea built from wrecked ships and it’s the reason behind all the bullshit associated with the Bermuda Triangle. They track the president’s signal to the city and manage to find him before he perishes like so many other poor dopes. As one would expect, those tentacles claim some folks along the way and there’s other stupid shit down there. It’s not exactly memorable like the best of the SyFy cgi monster flicks but it’s also nowhere near as boring as the worst of the batch. Middle ground shit that benefits from a few recognizable faces and plenty of tubewormish “action”.
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