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Deep Blue Sea

Mixed or average reviews
Based on 22 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 9 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Suspense/Thriller
Written by:
Duncan Kennedy
Donna Powers
Wayne Powers
Directed by: Renny Harlin
Release Date:
Theatrical: July 28, 1999
DVD: June 5, 2001
Running Time: 105 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: R for graphic shark attacks, and for language
Starring Thomas Jane, Saffron Burrows, LL Cool J, Michael Rapaport, Stellan SkarsgÄrd, Samuel L. Jackson, Jacqueline McKenzie, and Aida Turturro
Researchers aboard the floating laboratory Aquatica have been playing God and now, the terror of Judgment Day has arrived. (Warner Bros.)
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Newsweek David Ansen
Deep Blue Sea gives good rush -- earning its stripes as one terrific junk movie.
Read Full Review >Dallas Observer Andy Klein
Not everything in the film happens according to the traditional, overly familiar blueprint.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
An example of how expert action filmmaking and up-to-the-minute visual effects can transcend a workmanlike script and bring excitement to conventional genre material.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
It proves capable of doing something that many more artistically ambitious films fail at: entertaining an audience for nearly two hours.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
One of the few big-fish horror films that still has the power to surprise.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
After slogging through the predictability of countless would-be action thrillers, I admired the sheer professionalism of this one, which doesn't transcend its genre, but at least honors it.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Stephen Holden
Imagine a cut-rate "Titanic" stripped of romance and historical resonance and fused with "Jaws," shorn of mythic symbolism and without complex characters, and you have the essence of this live-action horror comic.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Lisa Alspector
At once self-conscious and generic, this smart monster movie about smart monsters -- supersharks cleverer than the scientist who created them -- repeatedly lulls you into thinking it's paint by numbers.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Desson Thomson
This movie's entire raison d'etre (that's French for "shark meat") is to toy creatively with the "rules."
Read Full Review >Film Threat Ron Wells
If distinctly uneven CGI, minimal originality and overly convenient plot devices turn you off, this may not be your film.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Staff(Not credited)
How refreshing: a big-budget, F/X-happy action flick that actually appears to be intentionally stupid.
Read Full Review >Variety Robert Koehler
Powered by exceptional displays of physical filmmaking, Deep Blue Sea is pulled back to shore by the usual suspects -- weak plotting and weaker dialogue.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Stephen Hunter
You have a movie in which sharks with triple-digit IQs hunt humans with double-digit IQs. Its no contest.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Doug Saunders
One of those stupid movies that are good to relax with.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
The characters are two-dimensional and the story is intensely formulaic.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
A preposterously silly bit of work, chock-full-o' nuts and rife with the kind of plot holes you could drive a submersible ROV through.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Michael Atkinson
One of those hellishly predictable digital-monster gauntlets that makes you pity the actors.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Keith Phipps
It's every bit as silly as it sounds, sillier really.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Barbara Shulgasser
Even overlooking the fundamental inanity of the movie, one is left to contend with some offensive racial stereotyping.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold
So uninvolving as basic storytelling that it quickly becomes boring.
Read Full Review >The New Yorker David Denby
The disgraceful script is by Duncan Kennedy, Donna Powers, and Wayne Powers. Directed with occasional flashes of nasty wit by Renny Harlin.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 6.5 (out of 10) based on 9 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Johnathon Y. gave it a10:
Perfect movie for a scream.
William T. gave it a7:
You won't be giving it a standing ovation but you will have a jolly good hour and a half of CGI sharks and Samuel L Jackson.
T S gave it a7:
Very entertaining B-movie. The way the sharks scarf down the cast is gruesomely funny.
Anthony F. gave it a7:
The only flick anybody can compare this too is Jaws, but come on, that movie was made 30 years ago.
Jake gave it a7:
What's wrong with some big dumb fun?
raVen gave it a 3:
It was like the movie actually HATED me.
