Deep Blue Sea: Overall
This is a pretty entertaining movie, ‘cause it feels like a b-movie mash up of other movies. Jurassic parks/science monster films for the research labs. Poseidon Adventure for trying to navigate through the building underwater. And let’s not forget Jaws, the original Bruce itself.
In my opinion the side characters were the best, but most of them were always going to be shark food. For the main characters, they were trying to play on the mystery and danger, but honestly that felt really forced trying to make them fight against each other. Especially this bs “will they/won’t they” drama from Charter and Susie.
Sherman by far was my favorite, it could be because they gave him a personality outside of always brood or always sunny. Plus seeing him surviving by himself was incredible. He had two shark kills at the end of it all
Science wise the sharks looked really good. Outside movie plot science, they kept using true shark facts. While yes they do look CGI, it was as pretty close to a shark as they were going to get, especially for a 1999 movie.
And the scenic ocean shots, my god they were so well done. I mean, they just showed everything about this movie
So yeah, I would give this a 7.5/10 for being a fun B-rated action movie. Clever battle scenes, interesting explosions, and some fun side characters too