Some of the shark effects are nifty, but for the most part, LOOK fake. errrr, ever*, and this one doesn't look to be his first. The rapper-turned-actor is actually pretty likable despite a poorly-written character.ĭirector Reny Harlin hasn't directed a watchable movie. Brothers always get eaten in situations like this." LL Cool J, who plays a devout chef, utters the best line of the movie when things look bleak and it looks like the sharks are about to break into the humans' temporary sanctuary: "I'm (doomed). Most of the other actors here really, um, tank. ![]() Jackson is a wealthy man with compassion and a conscience in short, the kind of guy who doesn't really exist in real life. Jackson in a bad movie any day of the week, and his presence here earns the movie the stars it gets. Now here is a movie that crams in as many cliches as the producers thought they could fit into a single movie mad scientests messing with Mother Nature, Mother Nature turning bitchy on the mad scientest, taciturn brooding hero with a checkered past, isolation by a big ol' storm, a Terrible Secret, killer sharks ripping people into li'l hunks o' gore and monsters WAY smarter than the trapped station personnel all this and comic relief, too. Now, here it is one year before the Millennium, and you'd think Hollywood woulda learned. Of those, only "The Abyss" had any merit, as James Cameron, pre-"Titanic," got to work out his aquatic fixation. ![]() Several years ago, Hollywood churned out three movies in a row - "Deep Star Six," "Leviathan" and "The Abyss" - that all featured a claustrophobic monster hunt in a cramped undersea station environment. This adventure turns out to be all wet "Deep Blue Sea"
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