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+ Best Shark Movie of the Year
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| Saffron Burrows (Mozart in the Jungle (2014-15)) should have stayed out of the water on the poster for Renny Harlin's Deep Blue Sea |
QUICK REVIEW:
Sharks with enlarged brains haunt a marine station during a big storm. A group of people fight for survival.
Deep Blue Sea has almost no scares, but it has enormous explosions and a strong primary star, sharks.
The script, by Duncan Kennedy (Curse of the Talisman (2001)) and Donna Powers (The Italian Job (2003)), is pitiful, the dialog downright ridiculous.
Thomas Jane (The Mist (2007)) and LL Cool J (Grudge Match (2013)) are both okay, everything considered, while Michael Rapaport (Pound Puppies (2010-13)) is highly unbelievable as a professor. Finlander director Renny Harlin (Cliffhanger (1993)) adds yet another botch to his resume with Deep Blue Sea.
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Renny Harlin: Cleaner (2008) or, Suit-Wearing Papa Cleaner-Man!
1999 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess
Die Hard 2 (1990) or, John McClane: Back for Seconds!
Box office: 164.6 mil. $
= Box office success
[It has been reported that the film was devised by Kennedy in an act of purging himself of having witnessed a victim of a shark attack by writing it. The film was shot entirely in Mexico, with a high level of awareness and references paid to of/to Steven Spielberg's killer shark masterpiece Jaws (1975). It opened #3 with 25.1 mil. $ (including Thursday screenings) in North America, where it grossed 73.6 mil. $ (44.7 % of the total gross). Deep Blue Sea is rotten at 56 % with a 5.6 critical average on Rotten Tomatoes.]
What do you think of Deep Blue Sea?
Besides the obvious Jaws, what are some good shark movies in your opinion?
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