1999 Directed by Renny Harlin
Researchers on the undersea lab Aquatica have genetically altered the brains of captive sharks to develop a cure for Alzheimer's disease. But there's an unexpected side effect: the sharks got smarter, faster, and more dangerous. After a big storm damages their remote research facility, they must fight for their lives.
Bruce Berman Akiva Goldsman Duncan Henderson Anna Roth Tony Ludwig Alan Riche Jonathan Schwartz Don MacBain Mark Scoon
William Sandell Jonathan McKinstry Héctor Romero David Sandefur Karl J. Martin Joseph Bennett Andrew Rothschild Nick Navarro Bill Taliaferro Ligia Ornelas Javier Nava
Kristen Branan William Mesa Jeffrey A. Okun Jamie Dixon Jerry Pooler Thomas Boland Rebecca Marie Tiffany Smith Scott Dougherty Heather Smith Craig A. Mumma Ken Stranahan Joshua I. Kolden
John T. Reitz J. Paul Huntsman Andrew Somers Jayme S. Parker Rick Hromadka Adam Johnston Robb Wilson
Riche-Ludwig Productions Village Roadshow Pictures Groucho III Film Partnership Warner Bros. Pictures
Синята бездна, Sügav sinine meri, Duboko modro more, Alerta en lo profundo, Perigo no Oceano, Duboko plavo more, Útok z hlbín, Bien Xanh Sau Tham
Deep Blue Sea is a mess, but a deeply entertaining one (if you pardon my stupid pun)
Because it's a mess and because I'm lazy and tired, I'll just provide some thoughts and notes, instead of a proper review:
* First of all, Saffron Burrows. She's pretty and all that, but what a black hole of charisma she is in this movie. I don't think she emoted at all, even when she was in danger. I know, that she was supposed to be the cold, rational scientist, but she acted like she was the coldest cyborg ever built. Her dramatic performance is on par with Ashton Kutcher in The Butterfly Effect (this is not an compliment, as anyone can imagine).…
Little known fact: this was the motion picture that finally spurred the Hollywood Foreign Press Association to create the Golden Globe Award for Best Use of Stellan Skarsgård as an Underwater Projectile. It was also, unsurprisingly, the award's first winner.
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Gleefully yet seriously stupid. It cares about every moment of its absurdity. Deep Blue Sea offers a great underwater facility setting, a productive use of space and camera movement in conjunction with incredible animatronics and hilarious CGI, and strong stock characters who are easy to root for and observe in their bloody demise. Quality B-shelf action/horror hybrids like this are hardly made anymore, replaced by ironic z-grade DTV trash, so appreciate films like Deep Blue Sea as the treasure that they are.
Part horror film, part action/adventure, part disaster movie, Renny Harlin's "Deep Blue Sea" is high-powered, multi-genre fun. Fast and full of crackling tension, the film is an exciting and full-bodied, pitting human versus nature in a battle of life and death. Harlin's most exhilarating outing, "Deep Blue Sea" is a relentlessly entertaining piece of work.
Yet another version of the "Frankenstein" myth, the film's narrative finds a group of scientists experimenting with shark's brains in order to find a cure for Alzheimer's. Of course, the scientists create monsters of the already-dangerous creatures, and all manner of Mako-generated mayhem breaks loose when the fish outgrow their captivity.
It is a compelling if recognizable story, and Harlin executes it with a ferocious…
Part of Dastardly Difficult December: film nr.65
One of my favourite words in the English language is the verb 'to guffaw'.
I don't guffaw often.
This film, with that one scene, made me guffaw repeatedly. Until it hurt.
It is because of that that it is one of my biggest guilty pleasures.
That and the super smart sharks.
And LL Cool J playing a chef.
And just, you know, stuff blowing up.
1st hour: LL Cool J repeatedly threatens to kill a bird
2nd hour: God repeatedly threatens to kill LL Cool J
Happy Easter
Just MONUMENTALLY ridiculous but fun for it, as much as I generally don't like films demonizing sharks. After all, as Samuel L. Jackson helpfully pointed out, the real monster................... is man........................
tw/cw: blood/gore/body horror
I love me a good shark movie! I root for the sharks. They seldom win, though. Lots of intense action, I liked it. People get eaten!
DEEPEST BLUEST MY HAT IS LIKE A SHARKS FIN!!!
I know I have an irrational attachment to this movie, but I just feel like... we don’t appreciate ll cool j enough as a culture????
All shark movies are hella fun, especially if said sharks eat michael rapaport, kinda hard to diss lebron james without a head hun?
Biggest turn down was the complete lack of Seagal references in the kitchen fight scene, I mean — come on!
Also, turns out “you ate my bird” is prolly the coolest thing one can say before blowing up a room.
DG: drink every time LL Cool J owns it.
This is a fun movie. I think I have watched it once before. I don't remember it very well if I did. It had a The Poseidon Adventure meets Jaws feel to me. They aren't on a doomed ship, but their research base is sinking into the ocean so same difference. Even though the story isn't so much about the sharks, though they are never really left out completely, there are still plenty of tense moments to be found. The story can be more about the cast getting out of the base and avoiding flooded areas, but it was still a cool story.
The effects are mixed. For the most part, they are pretty good. There are some effects that…
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