
A businessman sinks $200 million into a special project to help fight Alzheimer's disease. As part of this project, medical biologist Susan McAlester rather naughtily figures out a way to genetically enlarge shark brains, so that disease-battling enzymes can be harvested. However, the shark subjects become super smart and decide they don't much like being cooped up in pens and being stabbed with hypodermics, so they figure a way to break out and make for the open sea...... (Full plot summary below)
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A businessman sinks $200 million into a special project to help fight Alzheimer's disease. As part of this project, medical biologist Susan McAlester rather naughtily figures out a way to genetically enlarge shark brains, so that disease-battling enzymes can be harvested. However, the shark subjects become super smart and decide they don't much like being cooped up in pens and being stabbed with hypodermics, so they figure a way to break out and make for the open sea...
Leave your thoughts about Deep Blue Sea.
| TheMovieReport.comMichael DequinaWhat more can anyone ask from an unpretentious piece of pure action escapism? |
| NewsweekDavid AnsenDeep Blue Sea gives good rush -- earning its stripes as one terrific junk movie. |
| JoBlo's Movie EmporiumJoBloThis summer film doesn't rely solely on its special effects to do the trick. It adds interesting and entertaining characters, a plausible plot, some nice style, a heart-pounding score and even some genre-bending surprises here and there. |
| ReelViewsJames BerardinelliIt proves capable of doing something that many more artistically ambitious films fail at: entertaining an audience for nearly two hours. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertAfter slogging through the predictability of countless would-be action thrillers, I admired the sheer professionalism of this one, which doesn't transcend its genre, but at least honors it. |
| eFilmCritic.comRob GonsalvesI can't imagine wanting to see Deep Blue Sea again, but as a one-time-only, low-expectation, Sunday-afternoon diversion, it kept me amused. |
| Reel Film ReviewsDavid NusairIt's stupid and violent, and proud of it. |
| Cinema em CenaPablo VillaçaUm exemplo de tecnologia utilizada a serviço da história. |
| San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleOne of the few big-fish horror films that still has the power to surprise. |
| Dallas ObserverAndy KleinNot everything in the film happens according to the traditional, overly familiar blueprint. |