Searching for a cure to Alzheimer's disease a group of scientists on an isolated research facility become the bait as a trio of intelligent sharks fight back.
Cast:Samuel L. Jackson, Thomas Jane, Stellan Skarsgard, Saffron Burrows, LL Cool J and others
Directed by:Renny Harlin
Produced by:Bruce Berman, Duncan Henderson, Alan Riche
Genres:Action/Adventure, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Suspense/Horror and Thriller
Running Time:
1 hr. 45 min.
Released on :
July 28, 1999
Story Line:
On a remote top-secret island facility called Aquatica, a team of scientists are searching for a cure for Alzheimer’s disease. One of them, Dr. Susan McAlester (Saffron Burrows), violates the code of ethics, and genetically engineers three Mako sharks, intending to increase their brain capacity so that they can harvest the tissue as a cure for Alzheimer’s. Unfortunately, the increased brain capacity also makes the sharks smarter, faster, and more dangerous. Aquatica’s financial backers are skeptical and nervous about the tests, and send a corporate executive (Samuel L. Jackson) to visit the facility.
In order to prove that the research is worth it, the team manage to remove brain tissue from the largest shark the adult female. However, an accident sets off a chain of events that allows the sharks to engineer an escape, and flood the internal structure, allowing them entry to target the humans within it. The team of scientists have to escape the sinking research center and avoid being killed, without allowing the sharks to reach open water. One by one the team is killed off by the sharks until only the cook, Preacher (LL Cool J), McAlester, and Carter Blake (Thomas Jane) are left alive. They make the startling discovery that the sharks have not just been trying to kill them, but were actually leading them to flooding the facility so they could escape into the open sea to breed. McAlester, in a sacrificial effort to distract the last of the three sharks, allows it to kill her while Preacher and Blake blow the shark out of the water, and await rescue as boats containing other researchers come toward the facility.
Deep Blue Sea (1999) Full Movies Reviews
I saw DBS for $2.50 on the big screen (cheaper than renting it on video), and on that day I was desiring nothing more than a dumb action flick that would entertain me for about 100 minutes. That's what I got, so I was satisfied.
Still, under different circumstances (higher admission price, wanting something more out of a movie on the day of seeing it, etc.) I probably wouldn't have liked it. The characters were really thin - you hardly learned a thing about them, and they were pretty much interchangable. The dialogue was weak and cliched. The sharks - supposedly intelligent - didn't get much of a chance to show their supposed intelligence. The sets were okay, but still had a look to them that suggested that extra money could have polished them up. The characters commit some really stupid actions along the way.
Wait until you are in the right frame of mind, and it's free or at a low price. Chances are then you'll be acceptably entertained.
