Deep Blue Sea

Deep Blue Sea
by Renny Harlin

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• Deep Blue Sea: Music From The Motion Picture

Movie Reviews of Deep Blue Sea

Movie Review: Teeth - and some other reasons to avoid the ocean
Summary: 5 Stars

When I first rented this movie, I expected less out of it than I received and, in the end, I went ahead and purchased it. Why? Well, there were a few reasons, and they went outside of LL Cool J's constantly annoying acting. Basically, it was the sharks themselves, prizefighters in the field of carnage, as they stunningly toyed with the range of food left for them to dine upon. The CGI effects made them move quicker, rend better, and seem at home as they made Aquatica their underwater playpen. Added to that was the fact that these sharks weren't your run-of-the-mill tanks with teeth. Their actions would instead appear stealthily sometimes, planned out in ways that people never wants sharks to plan things out, and it soon became clear who was running the show.
This negated the low points in the movie, including LL and the heavily overplayed religious theme that he introduced into the mix and a few of the other characters playing in the fold. Also negated were a few of the escapes that, well, left me feeling as though the sharks were ripped off, that humans aren't smart enough to pull off anything that daring, but that's fine.
The sharks are vindicated time and time again.

If you've yet to see the movie and enjoy watching people as they try their best to avoid something that totally outclasses them in a watery element, then I would recommend this movie. It has everything you need, from the graphic gore of people being overhauled by what seem to be cities of teeth to the humor (unintentionally added, of course) in LL's themes song - get this - My Hat is Like a Shark's Fin. It's a fan favorite in my household, with everyone laughing about it and sometimes catching ourselves warning people to step because, like LL, our hats are like shark fins, too.
Yes, it has it all, inlcuding a couple of parts I didn't expect, making it all the more fun.

Summary of Deep Blue Sea

Model-actress Saffron Burrows plays the researcher; Thomas Jane pulls double-duty as shark expert and action hunk; Samuel L. Jackson's the corporate sponsor who chooses the worst time for an Aquatica tour; and rapper LL Cool J is nicely cast as Aquatica's cook and comic relief. Michael Rapaport, Jacqueline McKenzie, and Stellan Skarsgård round out the cast, most of whom are turned into shark food as the makos turn Aquatica into a floating junkyard. Harlin takes devilish pleasure in providing sudden, unexpected shocks--no small feat in such a derivative thriller--and as a series of action set-pieces, Deep Blue Sea never disappoints. It's inevitable that Burrows should end up in her underwear like Sigourney Weaver in Alien, but even then the movie offers a credible reason for the strip-down; that Deep Blue Sea can be simultaneously ridiculous and sensible is just another one of its shlocky charms. --Jeff Shannon