Thomas Jane, Saffron Burrows, Samuel L. Jackson and LL Cool J
Maybe they should have called it Deep Blue Piece of %&*#$@
It doesn't matter how moany original and interesting horror movies are made (Scream, The Blair Witch Project, Weekend at Bernie's to name a few), there will still always be the two hour pieces of crap that boast great special effects and little else. As you might have guessed by its short lived stint at movie theaters Deep Blue Sea will never fall into that first catagory, and plunges into the second. As cool as the effects are (especially when you consider that they actually built an electronic shark that is completely anatomically correct in skeletal structure and what not) it just can't save it from the lack of plot, the horrible acting and the pathetic action sequences.
Preacher (LL Cool J), Dr. McAlester (Saffron Burrows) and Carter Blake (Thomas Jane) try to get away from the sharks
Just in case you thought Deep Blue Sea might try to separate itself from Jaws, the opening sequence shows a bunch of kids (like high school or college) on a boat having a good time until they are attacked by a shark. We then flash to some pharmaceutical company that is considering cutting the funding for a research project with sharks that is looking for a cure to Alzheimer's Disease. Dr. Susan McAlester (Saffron Burrows, Wing Commander) is the head of the project and is arguing for its continuance while Russel Franklin (Samuel L. Jackson, Star Wars: Episode I, Sphere, Pulp Fiction) is a company executive that is still skeptical as to whether this tragedy (the shark attack) is worth the risky research just because sharks show resistance to the debilitating disease. To show how safe the research is Dr. McAlester takes Franklin to the site, which is a self-contained facility in the middle of the ocean, to show him how safe it is. When they get there they meet Carter Blake (Thomas Jane, The Thin Red Line, Face/Off) who is kind of like the zookeeper at their freaky little research "lab," and Preacher (LL Cool J, Halloween: H20) the religious cook with a loud mouthed parrot as a pet. When the researchers finally achive their goal of human brain cell reactivation something goes wrong (like it always does) with the sharks and they start attacking the people. At the same time a hurrican, or tropical storm, goes right through the facitility making rescue impossible (how convenient). So the researchers et al are running from an enemy that we soon learn have been genetically engineered to have bigger brains and are therefore super smart and super hungry for some human butt. As they run through the complex they predictably lose people one by one until there are only two left to destroy the last super shark before it gets out into the oceans and destroys us all (unless, of course, you were to STAY OUT OF THE WATER).
The real stars of the show, the shark
I don't want to say that this movie sucked... but... it did. The only two glimmers of a bright spot were the cool effects of the sharks (especially the robotic one) and the performance of LL Cool J. But no matter how good his performance was you know a movie is pathetically bad when you say "The best part was LL Cool J's acting." That statement alone could put it into the worst movies of all time list. Usually I try to find the best in a movie and find something good to say about it, but I just can't in all conscious say anything else good about this big pile of steam &%$#@*. If that isn't enough to make you want to stay away I will blatantly say DO NOT GO TO SEE THIS MOVIE!! And that is the first time (and hopefully the last) that I have said that about any movie in two and a half years, so take my word for it and DON'T GO.
