Welcome back to my blog. Here’s my recommendation of a movie to check out today and hope you punch your “Ticket to the Movies!” OK, as we finish up summer, let’s headed to waters with genetically engineered Mako sharks with “Deep Blue Sea” from 1999 and about the scariest snaggle-toothed mako sharks you can find in cinema!
“Deep Blue Sea” has a sparkle of creativity and wonderful work by supporting actors LL Cool J and Samuel L. Jackson, but director Renny Harlin never manages to bring it all together and the work of almost-headliner Saffron Burrows can only be described as someone who has taken too many muscle relaxants.
The story of “Deep Blue Sea” is about researchers using mako sharks as test creatures for experiments for the rejuvenation of brain cells such that would help Alzheimer’s patients. Well, all doesn’t go well (no kidding). While there are stereotypical parts that go back to the shark-classic of all time (1975’s “Jaws” from Steven Spielberg), the use of makos is nice.
Too bad the rest of the film couldn’t be as creative.
“Deep Blue Sea” has the group of scientists being trapped in an underwater laboratory structure (a number of stories tall) and their efforts to escape the aggressive killer sharks and somehow not to become chum.
LL Cool J is a total breeze on screen and he manages to elevate his character of “Sherman ‘Preacher’ Dudley.” Sadly, the most-remembered scene for Jackson is him getting gobbled by a shark and for Burrows, a stereotypical “bikini scene” where she strips off her wetsuit (she’s just wearing a bikini underneath) to use it to avoid electrocution.
OK, so, the National Theatre in London it is not!
The stereotypes abound in “Deep Blue Sea” from the first scene where unsuspecting boaters get attacked by an escaped mako to how the sharks manage to appear and disappear, seemingly at will.
Oh, well.
So, I say punch your “Ticket to the Movies!” and watch “Deep Blue Sea.” It is available on a variety of subscription services and available to rent on other platforms. You will thank me later if you find it and watch “Deep Blue Sea.”
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