Deep Blue Sea

Reviewed by: Jack Vincennes

December 12, 1999

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Now out on video. People experiment on sharks by making their brains huge (4 times a normal size) so they can get a secretion from the brain that will cure Alzheimers. The sharks (computer generated) get very smart. A hurricane gives them an opportunity to hunt down several stock characters on an isolated station at sea. None of the characters is "bankable" so their gruesome ends are ho hum. Samuel L. Jackson makes an appearance, and LL Cool J is the sea station cook who says things like "Damn, muthafucka'" and "Peace out, bitch" and "Open wide, you nappy toothed fucka'." And there is a Jackie Bisset look-a-like and damned if her swim suit doesn't allow for cleavage. And there are three sharks, and they are all dispatched in manners strikingly similar to the Jaws films. Figure that.