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Deep Blue Sea

Deep Blue Sea

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A Good Entertaining Movie
Review: This movie was very good.
From start to finish the movie delivered action and trillers.
I had a great time watching this movie in the theater and on DVD.
The film did not go the same route that many other horror/trillers have gone in the past.
There are a few surprises and its just one of those films you watch to be entertained.
I liked it and if you have not seen it yet, I would recommend that you do.
There are a few shots in the movie, the sharks does look fake, but there are many other scenes of the sharks that look great.
(Those few shots are not a big deal)
Give this movie a try, especially for those that love a violent survival to the finish movie.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Watch it once, but don't buy it...
Review: Big sharks. Smart sharks. Sharks bite, eat entire secret lab and most inhabitants thereof. The movie ends. Yeay for the end.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Deep Blue Sea
Review: This movie is really cool. Its not like Lake Placid, this has giant supersmart maco sharks eating and chasing people. The movie has LL cool J which makes the movie really funny. Buy it and you will have fun for months with this movie.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Cheesy horror film sinks in the deep blue sea
Review: For as long as one can remember, the horror genre has been the least respected in the world of film. Maybe it's because of the tilt to campy black humor the genre has taken for the past two decades. Or, perhaps, because of the formulaic manner in which the cast members can either be predictably the first ones to be killed off by whatever manner of menace, or seen to be the ones that have what it takes to survive. "Deep Blue Sea" manages to stave off expectations on who the victims will be, but the lack of a plot line and extraordinarily bad special effects eventually sink the movie's aims.

British actress Saffron Burrows plays Dr. Susan McAlester, a bio-engineering ingenue who convinces her superiors at her research firm to give her one more chance to perfect a vaccine that will cure Alzheimer's Disease, using mako sharks as the test subjects. She is granted her wish to continue, but is to be watched by executive Russell Franklin (Samuel L. Jackson, the only name of note in this mostly cast of unknowns). There is one catch: The sharks have been given artificially larger brains by Dr. McAlester, making them harder-thinkin', harder-runnin', higher-killin' machines.

Dr. McAlester arrives onto the mid-ocean research facility with Franklin to run the ultimate test: using one of the test makos' brain fluid against a strain of Alzheimer's. Predictably, though, there's trouble on the horizon in the shape of a large storm approaching the facility. After the test is proven successful, the test shark manages to sever the arm of a lab assistant. The facility's crew (led by Carter, played by Thomas Jane) are all finding their life's work going downhill after that, when a rescue chopper gets dragged by a shark into the facility's surface area via a steel rope used to take the injured man up, and hampers the attempts by the others to get to the research area's surface, and finding opportunities for possible rescue. But the rogue test shark, and its two equally fierce companions, stand in the way.

The main problem with the film, as a whole, lies with the sharks themselves. They are almost exclusively computer generated, and look very much like that. It has none of the panache of "Jaws"' electronic shark. The makos roam with incredible speed, munching away at human flesh at almost every turn of the movie, a seemingly ethereal sight. Also, we know the sharks are smart; but their advancement (recognizing the threat of a gun in their snouts, violently smashing out surveillance cameras, dragging a rescue copter into a building, setting off a chain of explosions throughout all levels of the research building) defies all logic! In the end, the implausibility of the sharks' behavior dooms whatever intentions the movie had to be a "thinking person's horror flick."

The rapper L.L. Cool J. makes an appearance as the research facility's cook. It is amazing to watch him playing a character who at once spouts Scripture (thereby attaining the nickname "Preacher") and profanities, almost in the same breath. Such inanities do little to endear his character to the audience. The other characters are even less human than the sharks, showing little remorse for their more unfortunate compadres who are victimized by the scaly carnivores. In fact, the moral relativism displayed by the characters take much away from their humanity, thereby dimming the sympathies of any audience with heartbeats for these protagonists.

It is, after all, just a horror film...one that just manages to stay away from all formulas. This is perhaps "Deep Blue Sea"'s only claim to fame, and only redemptive quality. If the film were a shark, it would be a lemon.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Deep Blow Sea
Review: The two stars are for the DVD. This DVD looks good, sounds great and comes with some cool extras. The DVD is flawed in one area....the movie it comes with.

The movie is an utter bore fest. Nothing to look foward to besides CGI sharks, if that tickles your fancy then your in for a treat, but if you enjoy good acting, sespence, action, horror, directing, and script you should most look eleswhere. I didn't care for one single person in this movie. They deserved it. The surprise death in the movie didn't fool me....I saw it coming, like I said Boring.

The direction has been done better else where. The tension is just lost when I see an lame and crappy CGI shark coming at someone....eat them, who cares. I will give this to them the death animation when the shark rip apart someone are perrty cool, but that is all to look forward to in this otherwise borring movie.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: bad bad bad bad bad bad bad
Review: a is for awful. b is for bad. s is for stupid. h us for horrible. bad...please dont see it fake sharks and the people when there under waTER they look like thre on a video game. ... not even 0 stars.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: 000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 FOR DEEP
Review: PATHITIC INSCNIFIACANT STUPID UN RADECAL GOOD FOR NOTHING MOVIE EVER MADE.BURN IT STOMP ON IT THROW IT AWAY PLEASE.ID RATHER WATH BARNEY AND BE HAPPY THAN WATCH THIS.FAKE IS ALL THE MOVIE IS. POOR SAMUL. DOESENT DESERVE ONE STAR.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Reasons2 slag off Deep Blue Sea
Review: An over pretentious effort that looks as if it started with a rag bag of scary ingredients and mixed together in an ill-thought out rotten-pot. Generally an unbelievable story with a silly predictable plot. I found myself giggling at its telegraphed scenes and lines - "lets guess when the shark appears next" - "ohh, there it is - what a surprise!!!".
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Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Formula can be fun...
Review: I'm a big fan of formula-plot movies, the good and the bad. While it can be fun to watch, Deep Blue Sea falls unfortunately into the latter category. The special effects and action, while sometimes spectacular really don't manage to save what is otherwise a dog of a film that was hyped as a kind of Jaws on steroids. Occasional snappy one-liners don't manage to make up for otherwise poor dialog, either. A formula plot can also be used as a framework from which to hang a moral message of some kind, but the discussion of the ethics of research toward a cure for Alzheimer's, which could have given us some pleasantly deep "do the ends justify the means" arguments, seems to disappear once we're waiting to see who will die next in some horrific fashion.

What in my mind saves Deep Blue Sea from the one or two star discard bin is the character of Preacher, played by LL Cool J. Without his humor, I probably wouldn't have bothered to see this film more than once.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Bigger, faster, Smarter!
Review: Deep Blue Sea is the best shark film ever made. It didn't give you the ... Jaws did with not showing the shark. Deep Blue Sea always showed the sharks. It is a movie were you don't know who will be alive at the end. I like the idea of making the sharks smarter. Most of the main charactors got eaten. It had lots of action and blood. It was not a horror film. I hate horror films. This is an action film. It had a clean 2.35.1 anamorphic Widscreen. The film was Super 35 so its 2.35.1 is not the whole picture in some scenes. Plus most of deleted scenes should not have been deleted. Plus the film has lots of good supplements. A big problem was that it comes in a snapper case. I hate snappers. If like good action films Deep blue sea is for you.


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