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While developing a drug for Alzheimer's disease, scientists at the Aquatica underwater laboratory find a way to genetically augment the brains of test sharks. The aggressive predators turn into thinking killer monsters capable of outsmarting their creators. Now the laboratory staff will have to cope with furious predators, but it is almost impossible to escape from the sharp jaws of fast and smart sharks.
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Reni Harlin, if you forget about his sequel “The Exorcist” and the blatant piffle “Deal with the Devil,” is a very good director. I noticed this back in the olden days, when his Freddy Krueger series movie, breaking the traditional approach to the subject, straight-up shouted itself out in the middle of a movie epic. I don't remember its number designation, but whoever watched it will easily remember the episode with a girl afraid of insects, whom Freddy turned into a cockroach and crushed with pleasure.
The point is far from this scene, the point is how beautifully, symbolically and freshly he played the already chewed material, adding nothing in terms of meaning, but coordinately changing the presentation. The same girls in white dresses jumped in the classics, the same curtains fluttered in the empty mansion on Elm Street, but how they jumped, and how they fluttered! After Harlin, the series became dull and gray again.
Then there was a gorgeous “Cutthroat Island”, which still in my eyes wins over the recognized benchmark of adventure-marine genre “Pirates of the Caribbean”, good action movie “The Long Kiss Goodbye” and “Mindhunters”, from which I have glitter in my eyes and goosebumps to this day. In between was 'The Deep Blue Sea.' To me, Harlin's talent is obvious, and each of the aforementioned movies are the best examples of their kind. But Hollywood has lost confidence in the director after several failures, and no big projects have been assigned to him. It's a shame. Filmmaking has a way of working. Fact. Just unstable, unfortunately.
“Deep Blue Sea” is by all accounts a horror movie. The movie is about sharks that have broken free, methodically and progressively devouring hapless scientists, who up to a time stuck needles in their heads. Poke-poke-poke, looking for a cure for Alzheimer's disease, and finished: the offended creatures ate the first, then the second, and then broke up not for fun.
We've seen this before: it's no surprise. Since Spielberg's “Jaws” we have been watching every year how different bloodthirsty animals squeal, spitting out shoes and scraps of human clothes - what else is new to say? And that despite the similarities in storylines, a movie is not the same as a movie. Something is a hack/middling movie, and something is a picture of rare beauty, in which you shake for the heroes, and your heart shrinks every time the creature swims up, and the beloved hero climbs not too hastily.
The characters here are all, as one, interesting. There aren't just pretty and ugly, good and bad. Each has his own stuffing, each made an impression with some phrase, some deed before the hunt, each has acquired character and features. And when you are introduced to the characters in person - not just by name and appearance - the viewer's attitude changes, and in view of the sympathy born, the subsequent struggle for survival looks/is perceived in a different way.
I fell in love with the dry-haired girl scientist even before arriving at the notorious floating station - as soon as she finished her fiery speech in the investors' office. I had taken a liking to the shark “shepherd” even before he informally led the rescue mission - as soon as he displayed the unprecedented but banal courage to swim into the arms of a tiger shark and pull a mangled license plate out of its mouth. The mercantile black investor who came to watch the demonstration of scientists, I liked it even before the test fish came out of anesthesia - as soon as the financier smiled at the shaking with joy scientist girl: “Congratulations to you, doctor!”. And the cook? LL Cool J's marvelous cook and his parrot?
The named characters - not all who were interesting to me, and whose fate in the course of the movie I cared. It's even strange: how did Harlin manage to tie me to the actors with a concise plot? In “The Deep Blue Sea” we observe a valuable phenomenon: even the secondary characters here do not turn into a faceless mass crowd, none of the supporting characters is perceived as another victim, cannon fodder, necessary only to narrow the circle of potential victims to the three protagonists.
The movie is shot perfectly: aggressively, brightly, dynamically. It is immediately noticeable that in the director's chair sat not a novice, but a master, who has a sense of rhythm and style. Reni really knows all the tricks of his chosen profession, and each attribute of the picture is thought out to the smallest detail. And help Harlin excellent actors - handsome man Thomas Jane, who not only looks cool in shorts (eka no big deal!), but also inspires confidence in the viewer. Saffron Burrows, who is not just extremely talented for a former Calvin Klein model, but manages to award her character with backbone and character along with beauty.
Samuel L. Jackson, who doesn't inspire my sympathy by definition, but is far from indifferent here. Kool Jay, reprised in Mindhunters, who is just super colorful. He needs no effort at all to evoke positivity.
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