What do you get if you cross Jaws with a traditional disaster movie. Sorry, no, it's not Jaws 3-D. I am of course refering to Renny Harlin's dumbfest Deep Blue Sea. Aparently Harlin was drawn to the imagery of sharks swimming indoors...and watching it fresh, it's a concept that works really well.
In traditional disaster movie structure, we're introduced to the B-movie crew of underwater science lab Aquatica; Michael Rapaport plays himself as usual, LL Cool J the comic releif and Stellan Skarsgard the mad scientist. There's also Safron Burrows in the Emily Blunt role (beautiful, toffy-nosed bitch), impressive newcomer Thomas Jane in the Clint Eastwood part and Sam Jackson as the red herring leader of the group.
Once the set up is out of the way, the science experiment goes wrong, and all bullshit breaks loose (well, three large brained sharks). Deep Blue Sea is basically a Michael Crichton adaptation, if Crichton had been arsed to research ocean biology.
In it's 100 minute run time it takes 2 minutes to preach about the dangers of genetic manipulation before resuming the carnage.
It's great fun, well made, crowd pleasing tosh. The effects are a little slack, but is compensated for in the never ending array of set-pieces. But the movie will always be remembered in the way Sam Jackson exits the movie.
Sam Jackson 0, Mega Shark 1.
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