The Luv Bug sends in the following thoughts on Deep Blue Sea. His report is spoiler rich and not too positive, but we all know that the Bug has sea going film experiences that were not exactly the best, so keep that in mind geeks.
FROM: HERBIE THE LUV BUG
It's hard to believe that mondo movie stars like Samuel Jackson have agreed to join Renny Harlin for DEEP BLUE SEA, a movie that is bucking for some goodwill by recently invoking the hallowed name of JAWS as an inspiration, and thinks that shooting in TITANIC's Mexico ocean facility will result in Cameron magic fairy dust making the movie into a blockbuster.
From a not so early version of the screenplay that has seven writers credited on the front, the movie will stink and sink. (SPOILER COMING)10...9...8...7...6...5...4...3...2...1... Plotline has a bunch of shark scientists operating on great whites and giving them human DNA. They get "smarter" with their human brain matter and start breaking out of underwater cages and causing a lot of trouble for the scientists who are trapped under the sea in their facility by a hurricane up above. Can you say THE ABYSS? The sharks do all this really stupid stuff like pretending to play dead and then jumping up and eating people. One shark jumps thirty or forty feet in the air to grab a scientist who is hanging from a rope and eat them. The dumbest part has one shark trap a guy in an oven and then the shark ACTUALLY TURNS ON THE GAS with his snout or something. The end has a small plane chasing the sharks on the surface of the ocean before everything blows up, which is typical for Rennie Harlin.
The dialogue is all awful and the whole thing reads like a worse version of the last ALIEN movie, with more underwater stuff. Samuel Jackson proved he doesn't always pick a good movie by starring in SPHERE, which also sank.
The thinking sharks idea is really badly done and wasn't this also just used in that horrible TV miniseries CREATURE? The walking, thinking shark? JAWS could sure use a revival on par with Spielberg's JURASSIC PARK. But this junk ain't it. Is there anybody at Warner Brothers left with a brain themselves? These sharks are smarter.
Herbie the Luv Bug signing off
