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Deep Blue Sea
1999
In search of a cure for Alzheimer's Disease, a team of scientists experiment with the brains of sharks, making them smarter and faster. When a corporate executive (Jackson) comes to tour the facility the sharks start an uprising that threatens not only the project but the lives of the team. Familiar yet entertaining work by .. Read more
| Starring | Thomas Jane, Saffron Burrows, Samuel L. Jackson, Jacqueline McKenzie |
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| Director | Renny Harlin |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Horror, Thriller |
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Deep Blue Sea
In search of a cure for Alzheimer's Disease, a team of scientists experiment with the brains of sharks, making them smarter and faster. When a corporate executive (Jackson) comes to tour the facility the sharks start an uprising that threatens not only the project but the lives of the team. Familiar yet entertaining work by director Harlin. The special edition release contains a bonus behind-the-scenes documentary When Sharks Attack!
| Starring | Thomas Jane, Saffron Burrows, Samuel L. Jackson, Jacqueline McKenzie, Michael Rapaport, Stellan Skarsgard, Aida Turturro, Daniel Rey, Brent Roam, Mary Kay Bergman, Ronny Cox, Frank W. Welker |
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| Director | Renny Harlin |
| Studio | WARNER HOME VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 41 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Collections | Fictional Shark Films |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Horror, Thriller |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Subtitles | DVD: Arabic, Bulgarian, English, Romanian |
| Released | DVD: 05 Jun 2000 Production year: 1999 |
| Format | DVD |
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In this popcorn sci-fi action thriller, three genetically mutated, super-intelligent sharks stalk the marooned members of an underwater research facility. A B-movie cast struggles gamely with the hopelessly mundane dialogue, but director Renny Harlin's submerged CLIFFHANGER remains afloat through sheer nerve, technical prowess and some truly spectacular shock moments involving computer generated special effects. The tricks of the trade invented by Steven Spielberg for JAWS are all present and correct, but merely placed on a far bigger hi-tech canvas. The result is a gory, trashy blockbuster that succeeds despite its waterlogged script.
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Basically a B movie on steroids, this delivers all the expected, and more than familiar, thrills and spills, but lacks surprise.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Good film with lots of twist and turns. Good story line and some bits that make you jump.
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2 out of 3 people found this review helpful
They don't make them like this anymore..
A well done (costumes, battle scenes with actors, not CGI etc) and acted period piece. Harris is very good as Cromwell and Alec Guinness plays the tragic Charles I. The film only really covers the Civil War period leading up to the execution. Very little is spent focusing on Cromwell's notorious campaigns in Ireland.
The film is perhaps a little sympathetic to Cromwell's role in history. He did some great things for democracy, but once in power also behaved in a despotic manner in which the Civil War against the monarchy was fought for in the first place. -
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