Amy Sanchez (Bebe Pham) who lives on the paradise island of Cebu is a champion freediver. Her boyfriend Tony (Jack Prinya) is in the air force and must pilot a shipment of gold to Manila. There are some plot continuity issues. He tells Amy his mission is top secret, yet when the plane crashes the news knows it was the gold shipment and she knows that her boyfriend was the pilot. We do know there was foul play involved, but we are not shown who it was. Was it her boyfriend or another character? The plot continuity gets worse as the next day two soldiers show up and question Amy if she knows where her boyfriend is located and they tell her not to leave town. Her sister asks if they have a warrant, meanwhile a news team shows up at their same outdoor table. I guess top secret information travels fast on a small island...Oh yes the location that the plane went down is classified. Amy decides to go find the plane and clear her name even though she is not really accused of anything. There are forces (who can't tie a knot) that don't want Amy to go searching.

The movie is nice enough to have a meaningless shoulder up shower scene with Bebe as filler...and naked feet in case Tarantino is watching. The newscasts are also in English. Kersten Hui plays Chaing the mean Chinese landlord. Except for the f-bomb the film appears to be a bad pilot for a TV program. Michael Gleissner who plays Benny Simpson in this feature is also the writer, producer and director. The action is light.

Rare f-bomb, no sex, no nudity.

I guess if you care about how female characters look and not so much about the story ... you might find something here that others are not. But anyone else will not really be smitten (sorry for the pun) or enticed (and that one) by the movie overall speaking.

Having said that, I guess you can see some women empowerment in this, if you really want to. But overall it really isn't that good. There is some blood and some action, but don't expect too much from that either ...

I didn't really know what I was getting myself into here when I picked up "Deep Gold" and decided to give it a view. I had somewhat expected it to be a treasure hunting movie of sorts.

Which it was, in a way...

"Deep Gold" was entertaining enough for what it turned out to be, which was a semi-low budget action thriller. Mind you, there are far, far better movies in the genre out there. I managed to sit through "Deep Gold" to the end, and it should be said that the movie wasn't actually boring. But on the other hand, it wasn't a masterpiece either.

The movie was shot in the Philippines, but somehow it eluded me why they spoke English and not Tagalog, the main dialect of the Philippines, or Cebuano, the local dialect spoken in the Cebu area where the movie was taking place. To reach out to a wider audience perhaps, I can only speculate. However, it felt forced and the movie seemed to lose some of its authenticity by having the Filipino and Filipina performers speak English.

While "Deep Gold" hardly was a memorable movie, and one that I am sure will be obliterated from my memory in less than 48 hours, then it was still an enjoyable enough movie if you enjoy B-movies - which I happen to do. Then again, I am all for giving every movie a chance.

Bebe Pham, playing Amy Sanchez, carried the movie quite well almost singlehandedly. So that was quite an accomplishment and testament to her acting talent and performance.

"Deep Gold" is, however, not the type of movie that will make it around for a second viewing, because the movie just didn't have that much appeal or that much of a plot and storyline to support more than a single viewing.

I am rating "Deep Gold" five out of ten stars.