The set-pieces are mounted with increasing bizarreness (a shark switching on an oven?) and a real sense of playfulness one towering knee-jerker is so good you half expect an instant replay in slo-mo. Harlin is, though, a director who can pace and co-ordinate action. You're never entirely sure whether you're laughing at or with Deep Blue Sea. However, between some truly terrifying performances (Burrows, chief meddler with nature, convinces on precisely no levels whatsoever), churning predictability and huge contrivance, much of the badness is just plain badness. Deep Blue, a 20-foot great white shark spotted off the coast of Guadalupe Island, is widely considered to be among the biggest great white sharks ever filmed.
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At its most outrageous, Deep Blue Sea's clunky dialogue starts to dally at the edges of smartness facility owner Sam Jackson's literally snigger-inducing tale of ancient horrors with its crowning punchline is a delicious subversion of Quint's USS Indianapolis speech from Jaws (which acts as a template of in-jokery for Harlin), and the movie seems to be constantly waggling its B-movie tail as if to keep telling us, 'It's meant to be daft, okay?' The major problem is that the point where Harlin crosses over into satire is hard to gauge. The result is a dynamic, often thrilling mix of dumb-arse horror-disaster movie staples and borderline parody. We were never going to be talking high art with Renny Harlin's dutifully overblown and grin-forming return to the ocean wave.Īfter a protracted set-up, locating us in a labyrinthine marine lab with a team of potty scientists obsessed with the idea that protein extracted from a shark's cortex can cure Alzheimer's (don't ask), an argumentative shark and some problematical weather leave the facility crippled and its three mentally dextrous cartilaginous inhabitants on the loose. Whopping great sharks with oversized brains taking sizeable chunks out of a bunch of stroppy, eclectic, overfamiliar character types desperately searching for the surface of the fragmenting frame of a deep sea research centre. The blue shark ( Prionace glauca ), also known as the great blue shark, is a species of requiem shark, in the family Carcharhinidae, which inhabits deep waters in the worlds temperate and tropical oceans. What is believed to be the largest great white shark, named Deep Blue, at 22 feet may be at Guadalupe Island. With Scott Carnahan, Ralph Collier, Kevin Conroy, Kevin Conroy. The diver was even able to touch her fin but later stated he was only trying to push her away from the cage.įor more of the latest showbiz news from Daily Star, make sure you sign up to one of our newsletters here. Legend of Deep Blue: Directed by Jeff Kurr. She didn't attack a diver who was positioned on top of the cage and exposed. Deep Blue was reportedly first identified in the 1990s, but video footage confirming. She also weighs an impressive 2.5 tonnes just like many of us will post-Christmas and is thought to be around 50 years old. Both researchers considered Ramsey's behaviour as essentially harassing the animal.ĭeep Blue's friendly demeanour continued when she was filmed in Mexico and was observed swimming around a shark cage calmly and only taking curious bites of the cage itself. The female shark is a whopping six metres in length and is 2.5 metres tall, leaving marine biologists completely flabbergasted. Michael Domeier, another shark researcher, also criticised Ramsey's behaviour.ĭomeier stated that the "number one rule" of shark diving was not to touch the sharks. The sea beast completely dwarfs any diver that is brave enough to swim alongside her (Image: Reuters)
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