Pretty good shark movie with a decent cast.
Too many WTFs prevent this film from being enjoyable, though there is a lot of action, and some of it is even original. Watchable.
"We will start with the perfect omelette which is made with two eggs not three. Amateurs often add milk for density; this is a mistake."
"Deepest bluest my hat is like a shark's fin", I still freaking love that LL Cool J song and him as a chef named Preacher with a swearing parrot is still the best thing about Deep Blue Sea.
Anyway I used to watch this one a lot when I got it on dvd when I was a teenager and it damn well still holds up today. It is a fun "B-movie" and the type of movie I miss being made these days. It knows it's cheesy but they still gave it their all. It has a stellar cast, equally smart as deadly sharks, Samuel Jackson giving a speech, a explosive ending, a bit of a little swerve, a great underwater facility and loads of fun.
Deep Blue Sea won't be a wasted 100 minutes if you decide to watch it. You'll be entertained and that is exactly what a movie like this is suppose to do.
"Ooh, I'm done! Brothers never make it out of situations like this! Not ever!"
Deep Blue Sea has everything it needs to be part of the quality shark genre: unrealistic trash shark effects, ridiculous 90's CGI kills, slow-motion action sequences and laughable everything (acting, dialogue...) It at least has a great premise (for a shark movie) basically an experiment goes wrong and the shark gets smarter. A super shark sounds great to me. A surprisingly good cast listing for a shark movie. LL Cool J has a parrot and he's got some of the coolest scenes. Samuel L. Jackson is very serious and does some extended monologues which is hilarious (not sure if it was intended that way though, probably not). Lots of action and explosions. The set is pretty decent. Not the best tension but it has it's moments and the third act was epic. A decent fun watch, especially when Cool J is in a scene.
I'm disturbed by the sharks having yellow teeth in some scenes.
Just your standard, run-of-the-mill “abnormally intelligent sharks attacking a science float during a hurricane” story. Early on, we get a little plot filler about how the dorsal-finned apex predators have a special syrup in their brains that can cure Alzheimer's and that’s why man has bred a new mutant variety with a larger cranium, some such nonsense, but nobody really cares. We’re just here to see sharks scare people and eat people and act like huge jerks while they’re scaring and eating people.
The scene everyone remembers is Samuel L. Jackson’s interrupted motivational speech at the end of the second act, and that’s still every bit as startling, ballsy and amazing as it was the first time I saw it. The rest of the film can be easily classified as another bad, if ambitiously inventive, dose of effects-driven monster trash. As this was released in 1999, the computer graphics are omnipresent and ineffective, but it does merit some credit for tossing the poor, dwindling cluster of survivors into such a long string of original, entertaining traps and tangles. Even if they are universally doomed to suffer a ghastly dismemberment or two (or eleven) along the way. And hey, LL Cool J is here!
Deep Blue Sea isn’t boring, I’ll say that. It’s stupid, sometimes incredibly so, and any moment it spends away from the frothy red water is a waste of time, but the big set pieces are appropriately frequent and loud and bombastic and, again, that Jackson speech is almost worth the price of admission by itself. I’ve sat through a whole lot worse.
Thomas Jane is the perfect Aquaman.
best shark movie...you have to watch...
This movie is great. This type of sharks I found quite interesting.
Hey it's a much better killer shark movie than most that are made today. As well as better than the Jaws sequels. Well part 3 and 4 anyway. Jaws 2 is okay.
Shout by hirkitiVIP EP 2BlockedParent2023-08-05T15:43:01Z
This was ok when it came out in 1999. It's no longer the case.