Deep Blue Sea 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
Would be 1000% better if the shark could talk and had witty one-liners whenever it killed someone.
Thinking about that time chapo said that Joker has the perfect politics. Clearly they haven't seen Deep blue sea.
the bit where they're stood in front of a huge glass window underwater as it cracks more and more made me want to cry.
I've decided to interpret this film as being an environmental activist film about the dangers of fucking with genetics and testing on animals. and that is why I deducted 2 stars.
"Deep Blue Sea" sticht aus der Masse der vielen billigen Hai-Horrorfilme definitiv positiv heraus. Auch wenn wir hier keinen "Der weisse Hai" erwarten dürfen, hat der Film durchaus seine Spannungsmomente, die Renny Harlin ("Stirb langsam 2") auch stilsicher zu inszenieren weiß. Das Setting dieser Forschungsstation auf dem offenen Meer ist ebenfalls ganz reizvoll. Die schauspielerischen Leistungen sind mittelmäßig bis solide, wobei hier Stellan Skarsgard und Samuel Jackson mehr oder weniger herausstechen. Am Ende bleibt ein solider Hai-Horror mit mal guten, mal schwächeren CGI-Effekten, der aber vielen, vor allem aktuellen Genre-Konkurenten wie "Meg" weit vorraus ist.
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