User:Stephenfisher2001/sandbox/DBS

Deep Blue Sea is a 1999 science fiction, horror, thriller film directed by Renny Harlin. It was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film stars Saffron Burrows, Thomas Jane, LL Cool J, Jacqueline McKenzie, Michael Rapaport, Stellan Skarsgård, and Samuel L. Jackson.

Plot
On an island research facility, Dr. Susan McAlester (Saffron Burrows) is harvesting the brain tissue of DNA-altered sharks as a possible cure for Alzheimer's disease. When the facility's backers send an executive (Samuel L. Jackson) to investigate the experiments, a routine procedure goes awry and a shark starts attacking the researchers. Now, with sharks outnumbering their human captors, McAlester and her team must figure out a way to stop them from escaping to the ocean and breeding.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) The plot is decent, but the plot did get even more terrifying to the audiences.
 * 2) The shark action is a lot more terrifying, violent, and even more frightening than most shark movies before this film.
 * 3) Great pacing.
 * 4) Some likable characters, like Preacher, and Carter Blake.
 * 5) A very hilarious scene where Russell Franklin, during an Inspirational speech, gets unexpectedly eaten by a shark, surprisingly.
 * 6) You ate my bird.
 * 7) The storyline is even more horrifying, like the scene where the shark suddenly wakes up violently and takes Jim's served arm, and climbing the ladder scene.
 * 8) Just like the film, The Meg, It did managed to not to be a rip-off of Jaws, or have just plain ridiculous writing (like Three-Headed Shark or Sharktopus) Instead, the film takes place in Island factory research facility instead of a beach like most shark movies usually do.
 * 9) Amazing action sequences, like the ladder scene.
 * 10) Great acting, especially for Saffron Burrows, LL Cool J, Thomas Jane, and Samuel L. Jackson.
 * 11) The soundtrack is full of terrifying and amazing music that was preformed by Trevor Rabin.
 * 12) The ending credits is very catchy, especially the song Deepest Blue by LL Cool J.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Even though it can be liked by shark movies and Jaws fans of the series, it's not really all that appealing to newcomers, making them hard to get into it.
 * 2) Susan McAlester is an incredibly unlikable character.
 * 3) The CGI effects for the sharks wasn't aged well.

Reception
The film received mixed reviews from critics, holding a 60% on Rotten Tomatoes while Metacritic scores a 54/100 "Mixed or average" reviews" . Retrospectively, Deep Blue Sea has been regarded as the most successful shark film, especially within a limited genre that has been dominated by Steven Spielberg's 1975 thriller Jaws.

Trivia

 * One month before the film was released there was a deleted scene where Susan McAlester supposed to survive near the end of the film, but many test audiences really hated the ending, and it was changed to Susan's death.