Just your standard, run-of-the-mill “abnormally intelligent sharks attacking a science float during a hurricane” story. Early on, we get a little plot filler about how the dorsal-finned apex predators have a special syrup in their brains that can cure Alzheimer's and that’s why man has bred a new mutant variety with a larger cranium, some such nonsense, but nobody really cares. We’re just here to see sharks scare people and eat people and act like huge jerks while they’re scaring and eating people.

The scene everyone remembers is Samuel L. Jackson’s interrupted motivational speech at the end of the second act, and that’s still every bit as startling, ballsy and amazing as it was the first time I saw it. The rest of the film can be easily classified as another bad, if ambitiously inventive, dose of effects-driven monster trash. As this was released in 1999, the computer graphics are omnipresent and ineffective, but it does merit some credit for tossing the poor, dwindling cluster of survivors into such a long string of original, entertaining traps and tangles. Even if they are universally doomed to suffer a ghastly dismemberment or two (or eleven) along the way. And hey, LL Cool J is here!

_Deep Blue Sea_ isn’t boring, I’ll say that. It’s stupid, sometimes incredibly so, and any moment it spends away from the frothy red water is a waste of time, but the big set pieces are appropriately frequent and loud and bombastic and, again, that Jackson speech is almost worth the price of admission by itself. I’ve sat through a whole lot worse.

There's quite a cast assembled for _Deep Blue Sea_, not what we've come to expect from the Asuylum-soiled genre of shark movies in this day and age. It's not a fantastic movie, but it proves more watchable that 90% of its company.

_Final rating:★★½ - Had a lot that appealed to me, didn’t quite work as a whole_.

**Peak corny shark goodness!** 🦈🦈🦈

Deep Blue Sea falls prey to every shark movie trope and has a blast doing it. Embracing its cheesiness makes this movie one is the all-time best shark flicks—a fabulous cocktail of 90s cheese, sharks, and surprising twists. If you haven’t seen this one, I guarantee you will be surprised by who survives and who doesn’t.

Great watch, would watch again, and do recommend.

This is probably my favorite shark movie. I know "Jaws" did a thing back when, but I like this better. It doesn't mean it's a better movie, the same way that more people like pizza than salad even though salad is a better food.

The biggest part of why I like it so much better is that it's a survivalist situation, in an isolationist setting, and the sharks are "intelligent" so they're actively hunting the humans so it becomes a killer creature feature too.

The cast is really good, and you should probably recognize about half the faces, whether or not they've been in Marvel movies.

The split story lines bother me a bit, and more when they're voluntary, but it works. And when someone gets eaten by a shark, everyone else greedily makes an opportunity of it in a good survivor's fashion.

This is a movie fueled by adversity instead of stupidity, as is a soft requirement for some movies. I guess the "stupidity" is creating the situation in the first place

If you like sharks eating people, or underwater bases ("Rapture"), or liked "The Meg" then give this a watch.

An engaging thriller with a mindless plot, Deep Blue Sea managed to keep me hooked throughout its loud 100-minute running time. A doctor and her team of researchers looking to find a cure for Alzheimer's in sharks in an isolated facility in the middle of an ocean - what more do you need for some sweet chaos while also supported by some unethical practices? Deep Blue Sea is not the most realistic shark film out there but it has a lot of cool action, suspense, the added pleasure of flooding sequences, and a protagonist that you love to hate. Go for it. (Grade B-). TN.