An entertainingly trashy and derivative carnivore spectacular!
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Deep Blue Sea (1999)
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Reviews Counted:89
Fresh:51
Rotten:38
Average Rating:5.7/10
Consensus: Aside from a few thrills, Deep Blue Sea is unoriginal and unintelligent.
Runtime: 1 hr 58 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Synopsis: In search of a cure for Alzheimer's Disease, a team of scientists experiment with the brains of sharks, making them smarter and faster. When a corporate executive (Jackson) comes to tour the... [More]
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Rapaport, Thomas Jane, Saffron Burrows
Director: Renny Harlin
Reviews for Deep Blue Sea
Strangely monotonous, with distressingly few chuckles.
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Deep Blue Sea is an enjoyable little B-movie, mean and gory and single-minded in its pursuit of cheap thrills.
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The thrills are such a rush, however, and the balance of digitized and analog effects is generally so satisfying that pic’s sheer dumbness finally becomes part of the fun.
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Top CriticOne of the few good "Jaws" ripoffs ... A thriller with some teeth.
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A neat package of terror, sharks and special effects!
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Top CriticIt's no "Jaws," it's not really that scary, but it is fun.
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Deep Blue Sea is full of half-completed characters doing generally stupid things.
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Shockingly fun deep-sea carnage extravaganza. Go Sharks!
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The picture has one thing going for it: the element of surprise.
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Yes, in its dumb, bludgeoning way, it's fun!
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Top CriticRenny Harlin’s pretty good when things happen fast and not much good when characters talk slow – or at all.
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The characters in the story make one stupid decision after another, as if they were trying hard to fail the ultimate pop quiz.
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A fun, brainless thrill ride.
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Director Renny Harlin uses sound well and moves that camera around with lean, mean, visceral clout.
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