| Deep Blue Sea Review |
| by Alex Ioshpe |
| "We combined 'Jurassic Park', 'Jaws' and 'Die Hard' into one motion picture.
As a side effect the level of intelligence dropped to zero, but the film got
funnier." more |
| Deep Blue Sea Review |
| by John Beachem |
| Contrary to what the previews might have you believe, "Deep Blue Sea" is not a
film about smart sharks. I don't personally believe the sharks involved were
particularly intelligent. The movie is actually about stupid people. For
example, in one scene,...more |
| Deep Blue Sea Review |
| by Gary Jones |
| Deep Blue Sea is a big budget 'B'-movie in which scientists in an
undersea medical research laboratory produce super-smart sharks and pay
the price as the fiendish fish decide to get their own back on the pesky
interfering boffins. (As is usual in...more |
| Deep Blue Sea Review |
| by Stephen Graham Jones |
| The Jaws structure works because it's simple: oversized shark enters
isolated community, begins feeding, has a few good kills and chase scenes,
then is in turn chased and killed, largely because the whole meal-thing got
a little too personal somewhere...more |
| Deep Blue Sea Review |
| by Marty Mapes |
| DEEP BLUE SEA is a horror movie. It's not a thriller. It's not an action
movie. It's a horror movie, and it is a very good one. The film itself
has some bad writing and some terrible exposition—after the first ten
minutes of wooden speeches and clichéd...more |
| Deep Blue Sea Review |
| by Ross Anthony |
| About ten minutes into the picture, our primary characters chopper to an
off-shore facility faintly reminiscent of a well-kept "Water World" set
presented in such a way that you just know you'll be spending the rest of
the film there. more |
| Deep Blue Sea Review |
| by Choo Eng Aun, Jack |
| Now, lets first look into the history of Shark films. There was the
unforgettable JAWS. The exciting JAWS 2. The rather flaky JAWS 3D and
sometime in the late 90s another film of the same genre that I can't seem to
recall (about the son of JAWS returning...more |
| Deep Blue Sea Review |
| by Nick Lyons |
| So far this year, we haven't seen many fast paced or exciting films. Mummy
fell flat, due to cardboard acting, Entrapment was a laughfest, and The
Haunting failed to work at all. Deep Blue Sea itself has many faults, but it
entertains, despite a deep...more |
| Deep Blue Sea Review |
| by Walter Frith |
| Director Renny Harlin had two films out in 1990. One of them was a
disastrous film entitled 'The Adventures of Ford Fairlane' and the other
was 'Die Hard 2', a worthy sequel to 1988's 'Die Hard'. Harlin can look
so good at times and so lousy at others....more |
| Deep Blue Sea Review |
| by Jamie Peck |
| Rating: *** (out of ****)
Warner Bros. / 1:45 / 1999 / R (language, shark-attack gore)
Cast: Thomas Jane; Saffron Burrows; Samuel L. Jackson, LL Cool J;
Stellan Skarsgård, Michael Rapaport, Jacqueline McKenzie; Aida Turturro
Director: Renny...more |
| Deep Blue Sea Review |
| by James Sanford |
| If science can make sharks super-intelligent, why can't it do the
same for screenwriters?
That's the question posed by "Deep Blue Sea," a thriller set in an
undersea lab where medical researcher Susan McAlester (Saffron Burrows)
and her crew...more |
| Deep Blue Sea Review |
| by Joe Chamberlain |
| Let me first start out by saying that Steven Speilberg made the greatest
shark film ever made with Jaws. But Renny Harlin has come in a very, very,
very close second with Deep Blue Sea. Deep Blue Sea is easily the best new
movie that I have seen this...more |
| Deep Blue Sea Review |
| by Frankie Paiva |
| Hot on the heels of Lake Placid, which was more of a campy horror comedy than
deadly animal horror movie, Deep Blue Sea comes to sweep us away with yet
another gory creature feature. more |
| Deep Blue Sea Review |
| by Brian Matherly |
| Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Saffron Burrows, Thomas Jane, Stellan Skarsgard, LL
Cool J, Michael Rapaport
Written by: Duncan Kennedy, Wayne Powers and Donna Powers
Directed by: Renny Harlin
Running Time: 105 minutes
Date Reviewed: July 31, 1999 more |
| Deep Blue Sea Review |
| by Kent Johnson |
| DEEP BLUE SEA is a monster movie about sharks whose brain size and
intelligence are accidentally quintupled by genetic experiments (by
those darn do-gooder scientists who just won't leave well enough alone)
terrorizing an ocean research facility. more |
| Deep Blue Sea Review |
| by John Sylva |
| Deep Blue Sea is this summer's second monster in the water film, (The first was
the mediocre Lake Placid) and it is trying so hard to be a summer blockbuster,
it makes me cringe. Making a high budget film with loads of special effects
and well known...more |
| Deep Blue Sea Review |
| by Berge Garabedian |
| There was a time when films like JAWS and THE SHINING (9/10) scared the
beejesus out of us. Nowadays, special effects have taken over the movie
industry and Hollyland expects us to be thrilled by computer-generated
houses and sharks. THE HAUNTING (4/10)...more |
| Deep Blue Sea Review |
| by R.L. Strong |
| WARNER BROS. PRESENTS
IN ASSOCIATION WITH VILLAGE ROADSHOW PICTURES * GROUCHO II FILM PARTNERSHIP
AN ALAN RICHE * TONY LUDWIG/AKIVA GOLDSMAN PRODUCTION
A RENNY HARLIN FILM
"DEEP BLUE SEA"
SAFFRON BURROWS THOMAS JANE LL COOL J JACQUELINE McKENZIE...more |
| Deep Blue Sea Review |
| by Matthew Brissette |
| Warning: the following contains one MAJOR spoiler. I'm not kidding ,
folks. Read this and you will not be able to properly enjoy Deep Blue
Sea's most effective sequence. I'm talking about one of those "straight
out of the left field , never saw that one...more |
| Deep Blue Sea Review |
| by Benjamin Zaretsky |
| There are two kinds of people out there. There are the kinds who enjoy
movies about thinking sharks that terrorize a demographic slice of
post-Baywatch American society and those who do not. I happen to. The term
"popcorn movie" is a great term and it...more |
| Deep Blue Sea Review |
| by Homer Yen |
| DBS is a film that follows a formulaic storytelling mechanism that is
as familiar to us as the smell of buttered popcorn. And if you’ve ever
seen any of the “Alien” movies, then in many ways, you’ve already seen
this film. The similarities between...more |
| Deep Blue Sea Review |
| by Chuck Schwartz |
| CrankyCritic® movie reviews: Deep Blue Sea
Rated [R], 110 minutes
Starring Samuel L. Jackson, Saffron Burrows, Thomas Jane, Michael
Rapaport and LL Cool J
Screenplay by Duncan Kennedy and Donna Powers & Wayne Powers
Directed by Renny Harlin
website:...more |
| Deep Blue Sea Review |
| by Jamey Hughton |
| Starring-Samuel L. Jackson, Saffron Burrows, Thomas Jane, LL Cool J,
Michael Rapaport, Stellan Skarsgard and Jacqueline McKenzie
Director-Renny Harlin
Rated 18A
Released July 1999
Warner Bros. more |
| Deep Blue Sea Review |
| by James Brundage |
| All right. I have almost forgiven Village Roadshow for their fiasco of
Practical Magic. After Analyze This and The Matrix, they were starting to
get on my good side. Of course, when I started seeing previews for Deep
Blue Sea, I assumed that it would...more |
| Deep Blue Sea Review |
| by Jon Ridge |
| There is a special-effects second or two in DEEP BLUE
SEA that makes the rest of the film stick out like a sore
thumb. Samuel L. Jackson rambles incoherently, beginning
to raise his voice (in true SLJ fashion), about a botched...
avalanche mission...more |
| Deep Blue Sea Review |
| by David Sunga |
| Rating: 3.5 stars (out of 4.0)
********************************
Key to rating system:
2.0 stars - Debatable
2.5 stars - Some people may like it
3.0 stars - I liked it
3.5 stars - I am biased in favor of the movie
4.0 stars - I felt the movie's impact...more |
| Deep Blue Sea Review |
| by James Sanford |
| If science can make sharks super-intelligent, why can't it do
the same for screenwriters?
That's the question posed by "Deep Blue Sea," a thriller set in an
undersea lab where medical researcher Susan McAlester (Saffron Burrows)
and her crew...more |
| Deep Blue Sea Review |
| by Dustin Putman |
| Directed by Renny Harlin.
Cast: Saffron Burrows, Thomas Jane, LL Cool J, Samuel L. Jackson, Michael
Rapaport, Jacqueline McKenzie, Stellan Skarsgard, Aida Turturro.
1999 - 105 minutes.
Rated R (for violence, profanity, and gore).
Reviewed July 29, 1999....more |
| Deep Blue Sea Review |
| by Jon Popick |
| Offering nothing viewers haven’t already seen in much superior films
(The Abyss and Alien, for example), DBS does to Jaws what Mulholland
Falls did to Chinatown – dumbs it down, drags it out, and leaves viewers
as unsatisfied as Rosie O’Donnell when the...more |
| Deep Blue Sea Review |
| by Susan Granger |
| Susan Granger's review of "DEEP BLUE SEA" (Warner Bros.)
It's "The Poseidon Adventure" meets "Jaws." Researchers
aboard the floating laboratory Aquatica have come up with an amazing
pharmaceutical discovery. Using mako sharks, they have...more |
