All the things stolen from Deep Rising

Virus was a comic book adaptation, wich I believe is a few years older than the film.

Cliff Curtis

I see what you mean but I'd hardly say stolen, creature features (I know its more sci-fi but for the sake of this point) are a lot like slashers in the way that there one of few genres or sub genres with conventions, all these things have to happen so it can be considered a part of the genre.

you need the cast to be somehow incapable of fleeing

discover a warning of sorts, basically a taste of things to come and the beasts power, survivor is a bonus as he can do the whole "it...it was horrible.....it killed em all!" line

the creature revealed and they find a moments peace to come up with a plan and throw around lines like "we're all dead!" and "holy *beep* man, it just ripped her in two!"

they throw there plan into action, it goes balls up cuz one of them is a coward/traitor/greedy son of a bitch or the equipment is broken, basically this happens so the heroes find some other crazy improvised way to kill the thing....usually with a great big fat explosion :P

and I love it :P

I agree, Deep Rising is very cool, but the stuff you've written down could easily be attributed to any science fiction horror film or horror film. Seriously, think deeply into the recesses of your mind to imagine what other films you could think of where monster is killed with the entire ship destroyed and two crew members survive. "Jaws", "Deep Blue Sea", "Event Horizon", "Pitch Black", etc.
The things you mention are just genre cliches. All of the movies for the most part, do them.

Yeah, I'm not sure why Ebert hated Deep Rising that much. At least that one had a sense of humor. Virus is the worse version.

LOL... you know you just described the plot of Aliens, right?

Attack of the Crab Monsters had a similar theme as well and that was 40 years earlier.