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  Average Rating for Deep Blue Sea [Blu-ray] [1999] - 5 out of 5

  
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• Deep Blue Sea [Blu-ray] [1999]

  Kashif Ahmed 11 February 2015

  

  1999 was a good year in film: The Matrix, Fight Club, The 13th Warrior, Office Space, Go, Star Wars, Toy Story 2, Dogma, American Beauty, Eyes Wide Shut, The Sixth Sense and a few other movies that only I enjoyed like Entrapment, The Mummy and, of course, Deep Blue Sea.
  
  Renny Harlin's entertaining suspense thriller is one of the best examples of the shark attack sub-genre, in fact, I stand by what I said 16 years ago, that Deep Blue Sea is ".better than Jaws". Now that might seem like sacrilege to some, but scene-for-scene, I just found this more enjoyable: The brilliantly absurd plot sees doctor Saffron Burrows, harvest brain tissue from GM sharks in a bid to cure Alzheimers. Informed by corporate suits that they're shutting her project down, she invites a bunch of scientists and moneymen aboard the remote, oceanic facility, to convince them otherwise. Things don't quite go according to plan and it's only a matter of time before Burrows, working-class hero Thomas Jane, wisecracking chef LL Cool J, Samuel L. Jackson, Stellan Skarsgard et al are on the menu and fighting for their lives against a ruthless gam of smart sharks.
  
  Deep Blue Sea is by-the-numbers action done right, yes they're clichés aplenty but each character is fleshed out to a certain degree and there are moments of genuine tension created by the unexpected order in which some of the protagonists are taken out (you'll know what I mean when you see it). A well-directed, reasonably well-acted and thoroughly entertaining movie; Deep Blue Sea didn't revolutionize cinema, received mostly negative reviews and was quickly forgotten in that crowded year of modern classics. But its' everything you'd want from a shark-attack film and its still as good today as it was back then. Underrated.

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Off the coast of Mexico, Dr Susan McAlester's (Saffron Burrows) team of scientists are working on a cure for Alzheimer's disease by injecting degenerate human brain cells into mako sharks. The three sharks selected grow to over forty feet in length, and begin to demonstrate signs of intelligent behaviour. When pharmaceuticals' president Russell Franklin (Samuel L. Jackson) arrives with funding in mind, one of the sharks attacks scientist Jim Whitlock, biting off his arm. However, the helicopter taking Whitlock to surgery crashes into the research centre and disables the protective security systems which keeps the killer sharks at bay...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray and will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play.   Bigger. Smarter. Faster. Meaner. How fast can you swim? While seeking a cure for Alzheimer's disease, a group of scientists in a state-of-the-art ocean facility in Baja, Mexico, are experimenting with sharks, enlarging the brains of nature's most dangerous predator, making them smarter and faster. When corporate executive Samuel L. Jackson (Die Hard 3) arrives to tour the facility, the sharks begin an uprising which threatens the entire project and the lives of the scientists. A terrific slam-bang action-thriller, Deep Blue Sea also stars Saffron Burrows (The Loss of Sexual Innocence), Thomas Jane (Boogie Nights) and Stellan Skarsgard (Good Will Hunting) and was Directed by Renny Harlin (Die Hard 2).   Actors Thomas Jane, Saffron Burrows, Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Rapaport, Stellan Skarsgard & LL Cool J Director Renny Harlin Certificate 15 years and over Year 1999 Screen Widescreen 16:9 Languages English - Dolby Digital (5.1) Subtitles English Duration 1 hour and 41 minutes (approx)