![]() Die Hard 2 and Cliffhanger director Renny Harlin is capable of crafting over-the-top thrills and, truthfully, Deep Blue Sea boasts a few. "What you've done is knocked us down the goddamn food chain." Yep, this line gets delivered by Jane.with some deathly serious rage-tinged vigor, it must be said. Jackson, LL Cool J) on an isolated research facility become the bait as three intelligent sharks fight back. In this R-rated thriller, a scientific crew (Jane, Burrows, Samuel L. Sure, it puts forth a phony baloney backstory about using shark brains to find an Alzheimer's cure, but the only ones who will want to perpetually forget this moment are moviegoers. Chewing more scenery than Sterling Hayden on a bender, he and the rest of the cast go for broke, using histrionics to drown out the inevitable Rifftrax quipping that was sure to follow. "Beneath it's glassy surface.a world of gliding monsters." And THEN Michael Rappaport shows up. Just because this muddled undersea non-thriller winks at the audience as if to say "Hey, we're going for a B-Movie feel" doesn't make this Z-Grade pill go down any easier. ![]() ![]() If you take a ludicrous plot involving super smart sharks, an impossible setting aping Sealab 2021, and improbable casting pitting LL Cool J, a failed Punisher, and the future Nick Fury against a CGI Dino-fish, you know you've just stepped in Deep Blue something. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |