Review of Deep Blue Sea (1999) by Mads E — 23 Feb 2010

"Let's get these motherfucking sharks out of the motherfucking tanks and go motherfucking berserk".

I believe that was what Samuel L. Jackson must have responded when he saw the manuscript to the terrible piece of "animal experiments gone wrong"-movie by Rene Harlin.

Jaws was the first movie to introduce the deadly sharks to the public, and, subsequently, people all over the world have become afraid of the Great White. Movies have been made over and over again, but yet the first Jaws still remain the best. Why? Well, first of the shark was credible even if it looks a bit like giant rubber toy shark. Second, it is credible because we don't have to see the shark for most of the movie. In fact, not until Quint, Hooper and Brody set out to kill the shark do we see the it. That, I believe, was the best thing: We didn't know just how big it was.

With Deep Blue Sea, Hollywood wanted to create a movie with a lot of deadly, giant sharks, but to top the story off, they added enhanced intelligence to the sharks, ultimately granting the giant beings many abilities that could only be seen as completely preposterous. From the sharks swimming backwards to the door-opening shark, Deep Blue Sea is an ill-conceived idea of wanting to bring Jaws to the 90s. And, in doing so, Harlin and his cast instead shot themselves in the feet and made a movie that will go down in history as utterly pointless. It is not terrible as such, but just not any great. Really.

If we are to buy the idea that brain fluid from sharks can heal alzheimer, and, granted, that does take some convincing to accept, then tell me this:

When you want to conduct BIG experiments on sharks, and you know that what you are doing to the shark might alter their intelligence, then why on Earth do you conduct these experiments far out in the ocean where EVERYTHING can go wrong? Seriously, that is beyond stupid. And, in truth, makes me think all the people killed in the movie got what they deserved.

Deep Blue Stinker.