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Deep Blue Sea is no Jaws, but action fans seeking some toothy action can certainly do -- and almost certainly have done -- far worse for B-movie thrills.
All Critics (113) | Top Critics (32) | Fresh (67) | Rotten (46) | DVD (12)
If you like big summer action flicks with plenty of bite, check this one out. Then go out for a big sushi dinner. It'll make you feel better. Jan 11, 2019 | Full Review…
If you like big summer action flicks with plenty of bite, check this one out. Then go out for a big sushi dinner. It'll make you feel better.
Paul Clinton (CNN.com)
Scary, absurd, inessential. Jan 11, 2019 | Full Review…
Scary, absurd, inessential.
David Denby
The characters are sufficiently naive to get picked off one by one, but their ignorance doesn't extend to the genre conventions governing their behavior, making for some shockingly funny moments. Jan 11, 2019 | Full Review…
The characters are sufficiently naive to get picked off one by one, but their ignorance doesn't extend to the genre conventions governing their behavior, making for some shockingly funny moments.
Lisa Alspector
Deep Blue Sea, a sort of cross between Aliens (without the thrills) and The Poseidon Adventure (without the camp compensations), doesn't deliver the killer-shark-versus-A-list-character-actor thrills you crave. Jan 11, 2019 | Full Review…
Deep Blue Sea, a sort of cross between Aliens (without the thrills) and The Poseidon Adventure (without the camp compensations), doesn't deliver the killer-shark-versus-A-list-character-actor thrills you crave.
Keith Phipps
This highly unlikely story about genetically enhanced sharks that terrorize the scientists who created them is one summer movie that delivers exactly what it promises: nonstop popcorn thrills. Mar 5, 2018 | Full Review…
This highly unlikely story about genetically enhanced sharks that terrorize the scientists who created them is one summer movie that delivers exactly what it promises: nonstop popcorn thrills.
David Ansen
If we're laughing at the movie: there's something very gratifying about the regularity with which Harlin cuts his cheesy characters down to size. And as a piece of cinematic engineering, it's nothing if not efficient. Jan 26, 2006 | Full Review…
If we're laughing at the movie: there's something very gratifying about the regularity with which Harlin cuts his cheesy characters down to size. And as a piece of cinematic engineering, it's nothing if not efficient.
Tom Charity
This is the finest unabashedly campy B-movie of the '90s. Mar 25, 2019 | Full Review…
This is the finest unabashedly campy B-movie of the '90s.
Kate Knibbs
It's the first summer blockbuster of 1999 that delivers more than its promotional trailer promises. Jan 11, 2019 | Full Review…
It's the first summer blockbuster of 1999 that delivers more than its promotional trailer promises.
Todd Anthony
A gory, trashy blockbuster that succeeds despite its waterlogged script. Jan 11, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
A gory, trashy blockbuster that succeeds despite its waterlogged script.
Alan Jones
Although director Renny Harlin clearly knows his way around an action scene, he fails to make Deep seem, well, deep. Jan 11, 2019 | Full Review…
Although director Renny Harlin clearly knows his way around an action scene, he fails to make Deep seem, well, deep.
Leah Rozen
It's just the thing for moviegoers wanting violent adventure, split-second editing, and enough water-drenched cinematography to make "Titanic" look parched. Jan 11, 2019 | Full Review…
It's just the thing for moviegoers wanting violent adventure, split-second editing, and enough water-drenched cinematography to make "Titanic" look parched.
David Sterritt
The film is full of the sort of knee-jerk shockers that leave audiences bursting into nervous laughter. It's a wild ride, and the less one thinks about it, the better. Jan 11, 2019 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
The film is full of the sort of knee-jerk shockers that leave audiences bursting into nervous laughter. It's a wild ride, and the less one thinks about it, the better.
Chris Kaltenbach
This is one of my favorite bad movies. It's full of action and ridiculous situations to delicious to ignore. Speaking of ridiculousness -- that Samuel L. Jackson death scene has got to be my favorite death on film of all time!
Super Reviewer
I have to admit this film provided some intense moments and whilst this is sort of Jaws on Steroids, it did of course share the same predictability. Of course the graphics of the Sharks etc were more impressive and so were the actual kills. It did provide a few laughs although I doubt that was the intention. I am usually a fan of Saffron Burrows, but this roles really didn't suit her and let's face it, LL Cool J has to be one of the worst Rapper turned Actors out there. The set becomes repetitive and I found myself wanting them to escape just to see different scenery.
Check out the big brain on Jaws. An unlikely posse of performers (Samuel L. Jackson, Thomas Jane and Saffron Burrows) get down and dirty with some genetically enhanced, super-smart massive sharks in Renny Harlin's hugely enjoyable, visually satisfying, severed-limb-tastic romp of a sci-fi thriller. Plus, there are enough movie references to sink the undersea lab which Deep Blue Sea is set on. The upshot is a romp that never takes itself too seriously, making for a guilty pleasure you can really sink your teeth into.
Fucking badass sharks...really good movie
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