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Summary: You're Gonna Need Skill and Luck This Time
Review: I always loved scary movie like the Deep Blue Sea. My favorite character was Carter Blake(Thomas Jane), who is the shark wrangler and the bravest of the whole crew. I mean, who wants to hang out with sharks when they could just swallow you so fast, Well, I don't know about anybody else, but I always wanted to do that, I think is cool. The Deep Blue Sea is really great. The people you were sure are going to die made it out and people you think can made out got eaten, is a little unexpected, who would have know that a cook can made it out of that alive, I always know that Carter can made it, I mean, the guy is amazing, I kinda lost track of how many close call he made it out of. Well, Carter had skill and luck there to get him out, while the cook got just plain'o good luck. I felt sorry for the people who got eaten by the sharks, even that cute little bird. I love the part where thry were on land and Carter dive down try to save Susan, who got eaten, and when that last shark was come in for him and he did that flip over the shark and grab on to it. The part where he and the cook(Preacher) was on land and Carter said" 45 feet shark, and you hit me". and where Preacher ask Carter" Are you sure it was just 3 sharks?". I'm sure after that day, those are definitely gonna quit this job. Like Carter said" I quit this job."
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Summary: Big Robot Sharks - Jaws meets Alien
Review: This is a fun shark film. It does not have the suspense levels of Jaws (mostly because we can see the sharks more often) but it certainly has its moments.A major firm is funding a research facility studying sharks to find a cure for Alzheimers and other degenerative brain diseases. The plug is going to be pulled from the facility as one of their sharks had escaped and caused some scares before being recaptured. But with 48 hours, positive results may be had. The result is that Samuel Jackson travels to the facility between shifts (read that as smaller cast) to witness a test. A "protein complex' is taken from the brain of one of the test sharks and it does, indeed, reanimate inactive brain tissue. But then the test shark wakes up, chomps an arm and is released back into the pens. Scientist sans arm must be evacuated while a hurricane batters the facility. Guess what happens. The rescue is botched, the facility is breach and blows up, and the two smaller sharks can now swim through the flooded corridors. The main characters try to avoid flood waters and killer sharks as they try to find a way back to the surface. But then we learn that the sharks were genetically manipulated to give them bigger brains. It also made them smarter. Although the station is flooding, it is not the best environment for sharks so the cast are able to fight back to a degree that would not be possible in the open ocean. Tense moments abound until the film's end when the survivors she the next shift arriving by boat. One thing that sets this movie apart from other shark movies (except Jaws) is that the sharks are physically real. Two huge animatronic sharks were built that could swim and act like any other shark. CGI was only briefly used in two short spots to minimize danger to the actors from an 8000 pound robot. The result is some nasty looking sharks. One of the better shark films around. The DVD has some commentary, five deleted scenes (only one of which could have added to the final film) and a documentary about how the sharks were built.
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Summary: Don't try to actually understand this one, just enjoy it
Review: About a half-hour into watching "Deep Blue Sea" I gave up on asking myself what the hell the people who made this movie were thinking. Then there is a scene where Russell Franklin (Samuel L. Jackson), who once survived an avalanche, gives an inspiration speech to everybody still alive at that point in the movie. His words are punctuated in such a way that I knew we were not in Kansas any more and decided not to question anything that happened in the rest of the film. This proved to be a wise decision because what director Renny Harlin has created here is not so much a movie as an amusement park ride. The explanation for what Harlin was thinking is provided on the special features, where it becomes clear the director wanted to make a movie where he could use modern animatronics and computer generated effects to show graphic shark attacks. The idea was to play with bigger and better toys than Steven Spielberg had when he made "Jaws." Of course, doing so sacrifices the cinematic artistry of Spielberg's film, but that is fine because Harlin is not playing in that ballpark. There is a plot to the film. Scientist Susan McAlester (Saffron Burrows) has come up with a way of using the brain tissue of sharks to concoct a way of fighting Alzheimer's disease. The research is underwritten by Franklin's corporation at a giant deep-sea research station, where we have a shark wrangler (Thomas Jane), a cook who is a self-styled preacher (LL Cool J), and an assortment of entree items in the form of Michael Rapaport, Stellan Skarsgard, Aida Turturro, and Jacqueline McKenzie. But all that matters is that McAlester is playing Dr. Frankenstein and in making the brains of these sharks bigger, she has also made them smarter. Her motives for doing so are quickly forgotten because these super smart sharks want to kill every human being in the station and that is what this movie is about. I bet you can guess who is actually going to survive the slaughter, but that does not detract from the enjoyment of the film either because the fun with "Deep Blue Sea" is enjoying, if that would be the proper world, the way in which the sharks put the bite on the humans. So, if you know going into this movie that it is about a bunch of super intelligent mako sharks eating a bunch of human beings, then you can dismiss all of the scientific explanations and exposition as just prologue. You do not have to understand it and you can probably get away with even paying attention to it, because once the shark attacks begin that is all that is going to matter with this film. This is not the thinking person's shark attack film.
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Summary: Why didn't I know about this movie?
Review: This is quite a good movie. I never saw any previews or ads for it and knew nothing about it. I recommend it. Good plot twists and I didn't know the ending ahead of time which is unusual. Not as big on special effects as Ghostship but the plot and suspense more than make up for that. Too bad the studio never promoted it properly. Good addition to the collection!
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Summary: Because you can't give 0 stars...
Review: This is absolutely the worst movie ever made. I knew it was going to be bad when I first started watching it, but then they killed Samuel L. not even half way through the movie. That, and LL Cool J is in it make this not-scary-at-all movie the worst EVER.
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Summary: the best shark movie yet
Review: Jaws was one of a kind and Jaws 2 was just as good. I've never seen Jaws 3&4 but I hear they aren't as good as the first two. But so far Deep Blue Sea has to be the best shark movie of all time. All I will say about this movie is that it is not your typical shark flick. Trust me on this people!
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Summary: Biting
Review: A good movie, keeps you interested ALL the way through. Worth adding to your collection. It is not jaws, but by no means a slacker.
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Summary: darn scary
Review: This was a surprisingly fantastic movie. Great acting, great plot, mediocre gore and a widely unknown type of shark, the Short-fin Mako that can scare the pants off you.
I had two problems.
1. Renny Harlin bragged about his sharks, saying no one could tell the difference between real makos, his robots or the CGI sharks. It's a lie. You can easily tell the difference. He even said one of his friends thought that the shark that killed Mchael Rapaport's character was real. Sure Harlin, it really was a real shark, not CGI.
2. Susan McAlester. What kind of [person] would purposefully jump in the water with a cut hand and swim out so far? Why not just swim out a tiny bit, before swimming out. SHE COULD HAVE LIVED! If I were Saffron Burrows, I'd say to the director to change that, becuase when Preacher kills the shark, he'd been munched by it just minutes before, Ii seriously doubt he would have been able to stand up.
There were some great shockers, like Samuel L. Jackson's death scene, fantastic. And the robots did bring a touch of reality into it that the Jaws films wouldn't have been able to. But you can't blame them, it wass the seventies after all.
This is one of those movies you rent for when a whole lot of your friends come around, or if it's a rainy afternoon. But whatever you do, don't watch this movie for the first time before you go to the beach.
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Summary: good muncher, terrible victim
Review: I loved this movie, start to finish, mostly because I'm a shark fan. Except two things. Saffron Burrows' character. What kind of idiot, cuts her hand, and jumps in the water, when she knows there's an 8,000 pound mako shark with, as quoted by Samuel L. Jackson's character, 'a brain the size of a flat-head V8 engine' swimming around. She was one of the stars I expected to live, not to die a violent and gruesome, though horribly fake death?
The second thing, was director Renny Harlin's bragging. He says that he would dare anyone to guess which of hsi sharks is real, a robot or CGI. It's easy. There's no real makos, just about fifteen shots with a robot, and a bagillion with CGI. Sure the robots are better than Jaws, but they're not that good.
I think the plot was excellent. A doctor experimenting with the brains of mako sharks, (making them super-smarter) to find a miracle cure for Alzheimers disease. She finds one, but then, obviously, a storm hits, someone gets injured, and the helicopter that comes to rescue him crashes because of a shark. What do you expect? Then the glass in the wet lab shatters, water floods Aquatica, (the facility) and they're in big trouble.
Some of the deleted scenes should have been left in there though, like some more depth into the characters, and soemthign to make you feel sorry Jacqueline McKenzie dying. She was pregnant.
Some of the shocks are when Samuel L. Jackson's giving a big speech on survival, when a mako juimps out of a tiny pool, grabs him, pulls him under, and, with the help of the small mako, rips him in two, and Saffron Burrows idiotic attempt at baiting a shark, when she could have just dipped her hand into the water and shaken it, and I'm just never gonna get over that.
The climax was pretty good, some nice chunks of mako going everywhere, and of course, the rest of the crew coming back from the mainland just as the last and biggest mako blows up to fid Aquatica destroyed, and their boss and fellow workmates dead.
THe best scene was again with Saffron Burrows, but this time she stripped to her undies, and electrocuted the small mako, as well as the opener.
The score was also extremely good, spine-chilling.
All in all, this is an excellent movie, even better if your a shark fan, like me, not an average monster movie.
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Summary: Good robots, bad CGI
Review: This was a pretty good movie. At first, I expected it to be below average, but then I had some pretty bad shocks, like at the end when Saffron Burrows was so stupid that she jumped in the water with a bleeding hand and got herself eaten.
The Computer Generated images were really bad, especially the bodies, but the robots were heaps better than those in Jaws.
The acting was good, especially LL Cool J, Burrows and Samuel L. Jackson. It was a pretty good climax, though I seriously doubt Preacher could have stood up to shoot the shark after it had seriously munched on his legs.
Mmy favorite part was when Burrows was in her room and was attacked, before stripping down to her undies, (Fortunately the stripping had a point.)
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