Deep Blue Sea (DVD)

Deep Blue Sea is like a combination between Jaws and The Abyss, only much bloodier and a lot less believable. I won't start a biology debate here, because this is just a movie and I loved it! It's full of unemotional acting, bad puns, and it's very very fun. Deep Blue Sea is about a team of scientists who have a floating lab out in the ocean. This lab extends 3 levels below the surface and house 3 very large sharks. These sharks have been genetically engineered to have brains 5 times larger than a typical shark. Why? To extract a hormone from their brain that will help to cure Alzheimer's...

Jaws, 1975, the original film that made it scary to go in the water and made sharks look like menacing monsters. My birth, 1985 10 years later. I missed Jaws when it first released, on the account of not being born and all. However, it s legacy carried on well into a time where I could ve seen it ie I was old enough that I wouldn t wet myself and stupidly, I still didn t see it. It never even crossed my mind. Then one day in 2001 (or thereabouts), Deep Blue Sea came on TV and I decided to watch it. Can you see the stupidness here? I watched a film that is nothing but an update of Jaws, before.

Deep Blue Sea is not the most exciting film to watch. It is very predictable, especially for anyone who has seen Jaws. The first time I saw this film was with my husband and a friend of ours. It was their first time seeing it also and they actually predicted just about everything before it happened. I was a bit disappointed and felt they could have done much more than rekindle old scenes from Jaws. Dr. Susan McAlester (played by Saffron Burrows) is a researcher trying to find a cure for Alzheimer's disease. In order to do this they have increased the brain size of three sharks to have enough..

In the time-honored tradition of man-enhanced animals going on a human killing spree comes Deep Blue Sea. Using a story line vaguely reminiscent of Jaws, Deep Blue Sea is about chemically enhanced sharks with a taste for anything that walks upright on two legs. Instead of a great white, we re presented with nature s latest spree-killers in the form of the Mako shark, which is normally a somewhat docile marine animal except when otherwise provoked. In the case of theses particular sharks (there are three in all), no provocation is necessary for their rebellious nature because they have been...