I really don't know how to react to this film. It was semi-enjoyable, even blatantly "fun" in a few places. Yet on the other hand there were a number of problems that grate on the intelligent viewer.
"Deep Blue Sea" is great in a number of places. As in "Halloween H20", LL Cool J performs above expectations, and is a welcome sight whenever he is onscreen. Samuel L. Jackson, in the all-too-brief time he is in the film, does a superb job. The setting of the film is also striking and compelling.
On the other hand, the mechanical sharks looked blatantly mechanical, even comical in places. (Perhaps that was the effect Warner Bros. was going for?) The opening scene, where spilled red wine attracts a hungry shark, was horribly wrong--a fourth grader could have spotted the error. (Sharks are NOT attracted to spilled red wine because it looks like blood. Sharks' eyesight is poor. They SMELL blood in the water. Red wine means nothing!) Finally, Saffron Burrows, another British chick who is convinced she is the greatest actress who has ever lived, is nauseating every moment she is onscreen. When her character gets chewed to bits by an oversized mako, it was all I could do not to stand up and cheer.
My recommendation: See "Deep Blue Sea", but wait for the dollar theatre.
"Deep Blue Sea" is great in a number of places. As in "Halloween H20", LL Cool J performs above expectations, and is a welcome sight whenever he is onscreen. Samuel L. Jackson, in the all-too-brief time he is in the film, does a superb job. The setting of the film is also striking and compelling.
On the other hand, the mechanical sharks looked blatantly mechanical, even comical in places. (Perhaps that was the effect Warner Bros. was going for?) The opening scene, where spilled red wine attracts a hungry shark, was horribly wrong--a fourth grader could have spotted the error. (Sharks are NOT attracted to spilled red wine because it looks like blood. Sharks' eyesight is poor. They SMELL blood in the water. Red wine means nothing!) Finally, Saffron Burrows, another British chick who is convinced she is the greatest actress who has ever lived, is nauseating every moment she is onscreen. When her character gets chewed to bits by an oversized mako, it was all I could do not to stand up and cheer.
My recommendation: See "Deep Blue Sea", but wait for the dollar theatre.