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Summary: A shark ate me
Review: MMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!! No I Cant stop yelling, thats just how I talk. Ain't u seen none of my movies, a shark ate me.
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Summary: Definitely mindless, but
Review: fun if you're after a film you can goof on while you're watching it. It's interesting to watch the body count rise while those in the cast who can't act get worse and those who can (especially Sam Jackson)look increasingly embarassed.
So bad it's almost watchable.
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Summary: Lots of Fun!
Review: People...this movie is entertainment only and it succeeds on almost all accounts. Sure some of the shark effects are a little cartoony, but over half of the shots look decent and the robotic sharks are the best ever put to film. Any movie that combines huge amounts of suspense and action, while managing to make even LL Cool J funny is a good thing. Rent or buy it cheap ($10 bucks at most stores!), because you don't need to think to have fun.
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Summary: Way Above Average B-Movie
Review: Saffron Burrows is Susan McCallister, determined to find a cure for Alzheimer's Disease by growing a new protein in the brains of sharks. This has involved mucking about with the sharks' genotype and growing their brains in such a way that the three specimens on her remote mid-ocean laboratory are all now seriously smart. One has recently escaped and terrorized some tourists on a nearby boat so now bigshot money man Russell Franklin (Samuel L. Jackson) has come to check the place out and maybe shut it down. Here he is introduced to macho shark wrangler Blake (Thomas Jane), genius scientist Whitlock (Stellan Skarsgard), Whitlock's girlfriend Janice Higgins (Jacqueline McKenzie), the nerdy and timorous Scoggins (Michael Rapaport) and Dudley the cook (LL Cool J). Then, just as the experiments seem to be going terribly well, our intellectually over-equipped GM sharks find a cunning - and gruesome - way to flood the base, before proceeding to pursue all the aforementioned around it and eat them. This is pretty surely Renny Harlin's best movie. Which I appreciate is something of a case of damning with faint praise. (What, I hear you say? Better than 'Cliffhanger'? Never!) But actually it's pretty good. Of course it's total nonsense from start to finish, a light B-movie and pretext to sell some popcorn. But, damn it, I like B-movies; most of them nowadays are pretty lousy while this one is great fun. It's really just a protracted game of Who Gets Eaten Next but a very good one, splendidly unpredictable and admirably disrespectful to all the usual conventions of who gets to live and how long. As others aplenty have pointed out, it's hardly as good as 'Jaws' a quarter century earlier. But if, as a shark movie it invites comparison with 'Jaws', as a film in the Ambitious Scientist Makes Scary New Creatures Which Get Out Of Control And Eat Everyone genre it also invites comparison with the much better known and more expensive 'Jurassic Park'. And that at least is a comparison in which, I put it to you, Spielberg does not come at all so clearly the winner: DBS is certainly a lot less predictable, carries a lot less fat and at least as much fun.
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Summary: meh
Review: I saw this on PPV, and it was....okay. I had been waiting for a shark movie, and as far as campy shark movies, this one isn't too bad....but it's not very good either. It's the kind of cheese that's fun to watch once or twice, while kicking back with a couple of beers (believe me, the beers help).
Basic storyline, sharks have been modified in the name of scientific research on alhstheimers (spelling?). Something about sharks being somehow fit for this type of research. Anyway, in the process, the sharks have become "Super-geniuses" and the *&^% hits the fan. Everybody but a handful of people go away for a weekend and hilarity ensues.
Honestly, I found myself rooting for the sharks. They were only trying to escape from the research facility/shark prison. Sadly, they were eventually defeated, but they did snack on a bunch of people. Made me pretty happy.
The dialoge was corny of course, but no more so than your typical sitcom.
A fun watch, but don't see it if you want something serious.
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Summary: Killer Genius Sharks Fight LL Cool J.
Review: One of the reasons that the Ladies Love Cool James is that he knows how to outwit sharks... that are geniuses. Honestly let that sink in for a while. Sharks... that are geniuses. This is the kind of movie where people start getting killed by sharks and you root for the sharks to kill the entire cast just so they can roll the credits. So, the lesson learned is this: If you ever are in an underground research facility infested by genius sharks get a washed up rapper to kill them and save humanity. The end of the movie should have been him moving to North Dakota. If there is one problem that North Dakota doesn't have it is killer genius sharks, oh not to mention a lot of things to do. Roll Credits.
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Summary: Deep Blue (Censored).
Review: I kind of laugh at this movie now because as more time goes by, the worst it looks. The actor who played the cook got all the good one liners, the others are walking cardboard characters that become so annoying because the sharks becoming as intelligent as they are, it's really their fault, and when they get killed by the sharks, it's both a relief for the audience that we don't have to listen to their non-acting skills anymore.
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Summary: Surprisingly good would be shlock thriller
Review: So many sci-fi/horror films since Aliens hit in 1986 have tried to take the formula of "take a bunch of people, confine them with whatever killer beasts we can think of, and see who survives". Rarely it comes off as enjoyable, but Deep Blue Sea is a surprisingly good sci-fi yarn that is entertaining and surprising until the credits roll. The oh so hot Saffron Burrows plays an Altzheimers researcher who is experimenting on a trio of Mako sharks in the undersea complex of Aquatica. However, some never thought of side effects have happened, and now she and the crew (which includes Thomas Jane, Samuel L. Jackson, LL Cool J, Stellan Skarsgard, Michael Rapaport, Jacqueline McKenzie, and The Soprano's Aida Turturro) are swimming for their lives. Director Renny Harlin (Cliffhanger, Die Hard 2) pretty much does the same thing here that he did with Nightmare on Elm Street 4; sacrifice tension and suspense for blood and gore; but it surprisingly works. The performances are great, and the special effects are good considering the time the film was released. This is the film in which Jane would get noticed and his first in a leading action hero role which he has since followed in Dreamcatcher and the upcoming The Punisher, and his action hero talents are on high display. All in all, Deep Blue Sea is worth checking out.
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Summary: Highly underrated monster movie
Review: Comparing this movie to Jaws is just plain dumb. If Jaws is the ultimate shark movie then does this mean that Hollywood should never produce another shark movie again? Renny Harlin has delivered on all the goods right here in this B-movie that never tries to be more than what it is - a scary movie about killer sharks. DBS kicks the blubber out of ALL the Jaws sequels and it certainly eats up all the other direct-to-video shark attack movies. It can easily take second place on the shark movie list which is not a bad thing considering that Jaws is rated as one of the best movies ever out of all the genre types. This is a great action flick with lots of stunning set pieces to boot. The whole film takes place on a deep-sea rig that is a marine institution for sharks that are being biologically altered to produce medicine. Then all hell breaks loose and the genetically modified sharks start eating everybody up. The end action sequence is mind-blowing and the special effects are top notch. In short - if you are going to see a shark attack movie then watch Jaws, but if you want to see another then this is the one to get, hands down. The suspense is great and the film moves forward at quite a fast pace. There is never a dull moment to be had in DBS and you should all be thankful that someone had the courage to go out and make a competitive shark attack movie like this one (not to mention that Hollywood found a new leading action man in Thomas Jane.) Great stuff and a thoroughly enjoyable monster movie.
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Summary: Can we say RIP OFF??
Review: Since the huge success of JAWS....how many countless shark horror movies have come out? 8 or 9? Well they all suck...none of them are really worth mentioning or remembering. Except this one. Suprisingly this is a good moive...even though it is a direct take from JAWS. Still it delivers its fare share of truly frightening events and what not. Scientists on a research base in the middle of the ocean are studying on how to make a shark more evolved or to see how its brain really works and it back fires and instead, they made the sharks smarter, and quite larger than normal sharks. It involves 3 and now everyone has to try and escape the large confinment. They cant call for help because a strom has interfered with all signals and the place is sinking fast when a rescue chopper crashes into the thing. Very good even if it is a mirror image of greater movies. I highly reccommend JAWS to this but if you have seen JAWS and are interested in more shark movies, this is the next onthe recommendation list being that it is the 2nd best to any other out there.
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