20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997 Village Roadshow film) way to Jules Verne, who uses it as a basis for his novel "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea". The "Nautilus" gets its power by extracting the sun's heat from the sea water: this is impossible technology, and the movie wrongly calls it hydroelectricity. "DVD Verdict" wrote the miniseries "comes off as incomplete", but praised Michael Caine's performance as Captain Nemo. David Cornelius of "DVD Talk" called the adaptation "dreadfully dull", disapproving of director Hardy's and screenwriter Nelson's work. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997 Village Roadshow film) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is a 1997 two-part television miniseries produced
Invasion of the Sea narrative (both French and North African) and the novel's political sophistication. He criticized the novel, however, for a general lack of excitement. On the other hand, "Harper's Magazine" described the book as a "ripping good yarn". A common theme in reviews was the novel's seeming prescience about the growing importance of Islamic terrorism. Invasion of the Sea Invasion of the Sea () is an adventure novel written by Jules Verne. It was published in 1905, the last to be published in the author's lifetime, and describes the exploits of Berber nomads and European travelers in Saharan Africa. The European characters