Deep Blue Sea
I tell you, it's hard to hate Anaconda and that great Voigt
performance, but it started a genre of Schlocky Big Animals Who
Eat People movies that I find hard to forgive. Still, Deep Blue
Sea is an acceptable entry.
There's not much you need to know: the sharks have been "altered"
in such a way that they move incredibly fast and work in packs--unless
the movie needs for them to move slowly and work alone.
I give it points for willingness to kick a few standbys out the
window. The acting is suitable for the genre--I was pleasantly
surprised by Thomas Jane, who suffers only from Joseph Fiennes
Eyes, but was hot anyway. LL Cool J was quite good, as was
Michael Rappaport. The skinny blonde was terrible, and the chick
who was the Bad Girl in Circle of Friends (Saffron Burrows) was
just shit awful bad. Samuel Jackson was, well, Samuel Jackson. I
did like the exchange he and LL had early on in the movie.
So it's schlock. But it's *fun* schlock, and if you've got a
group together and can't think of anything else to do, go to this
movie and howl at it.
Besides, there is one moment in this movie that is just so
perfect that you will regret it if you hear about it without
seeing it first.
