![]() ![]() Where Did Deep Blue Sea Struggle To Break The Surface?īeing that this movie, for all its good traits, was a bad-shark movie, it’s going to have some not so good elements. The animatronic sharks were just so lifelike. This kept the CGI from getting overwhelming and monotonous. If this movie had released in the 2000s, it probably would have just used CGI, but since CGI wasn’t that advanced just yet, it’s only present in a handful of scenes. It was right on the verge of probably being a movie that relied totally on CGI for rendering the sharks. The Use Of Animatronicsĭespite common contention over whether practical effects are truly better than CGI, this film’s use of animatronic sharks instead of strictly computer-generated sharks was a serious plus. Various factors are working against the crew, and they’re short on time to figure out what they should do. Not only was the crew fighting against sharks with heightened mental functions, but they also had to maneuver their way out of the sinking science facility. That being said, Aquatica being on the verge of collapsing in on itself, really amped up the stakes. Sharks with a taste for human flesh were a solid premise, to begin with. The tension and suspense from the film’s plot was already high, but with the accompanying score underlying the action, the thrills of the movie became even more apparent. Each track had a rampant and pounding pace that was often cut with piercing, screechy violin chords. The “Main” theme and “Journey” both really stood out. He’s a bad-boy type with a criminal record and he’s thrust into playing the action-hero, leadership role. Thomas Jane was awesome as the shark wrangler, Carter Blake. LL Cool J as the chef, Preacher, was interesting (in ways that are both good and bad, but more on that later). Jackson’s performance as Russell Franklin stood out as he played the wise, voice-of-reason character who gave deep and moving monologues. The cast of this movie was having an utter blast making this film, and it really showed. Jackson and the other enjoyable performances, the score, the escape plot, and the use of animatronic sharks. That’s the broader takeaway of the film, but the key factors to the film’s success are Samuel L. It got close, for sure, but it didn’t cross the line. It didn’t go off the rails with its quirkiness. Deep Blue Sea got right what other bad shark movies can’t seem to figure out. Accordingly, the surviving crew had to escape the underwater facility quickly caving in around them, all the while maneuvering and outsmarting the sharks that lurk in the water. ![]() The helicopter lost control and crashed directly into the uppermost layer of Aquatica, dangerously compromising the structural integrity of the facility. One problem though, the weather conditions were putrid. This spurred a rescue mission with paramedics flying to the facility. At first, it all appeared to be then, things turned bad.Īfter successfully harvesting the protein complex from one of the sharks, a scientist is critically wounded from a shark bite. After one of these genetically altered sharks escaped the facility and endangered the lives of a crew of young adults out on their boat, a corporate executive from the company funding the project came out to make sure everything was on the up and up. It wasn’t your average testing facility though there they genetically altered sharks (a major scientific ethics violation) to attempt to cure Alzheimer’s disease (at least it was a worthy cause). What Is Deep Blue Sea?Ī group of scientists and other personnel (namely a shark wrangler and a chef) populated the weekend crew at Aquatica, a testing facility located in the middle of the ocean. Based on that alone, the movie’s actually a good deal of fun, but Deep Blue Sea offered a lot outside of this, enough to where it really deserves to be crowned as the prime example of good, bad-shark-cinema. All that said, you know what the movie did have? Genetically modified sharks. It dangerously flirted with the line of utter ridiculousness. Some of the character motivations were weak. Where Did Deep Blue Sea Struggle To Break The Surface?ĭeep Blue Sea was not a traditionally high-grade movie.
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