#SUBMARINE DEEP BLUE SHARK FULL#

She just took some morally dark shortcuts to get there, and the implication is she paid for it with her life. She legit wanted to cure brain aliments that devastate millions of patients and their families. Her self sacrifice redeems her character, if you feel she needed redeeming. I salute the writers for taking the less obvious route. This gal was smart (she took down her shark handily), had a mission that really would have helped people, and had chemistry with Carter, the manly man of the group. Normally the alpha female would be the sole survivor in a shark film.

Then, the lead scientist (Saffron Burrows) getting swallowed whole? That seemed like some Old Testament shit right there, based on the Jurassic Park “messing with nature” theme, and Preacher’s constant commentaries to God, a la LadyHawke. Didn’t even the rat survive in The Abyss? That kind of thing (pet deaths, unless it’s in a ‘dog movie’) doesn’t happen much these days. I was sad to lose him so early on.Īlso, shall we mourn for Jackson, whose moment we should have seen coming, but never expected (and so unceremoniously)? The A-listers are supposed to survive, right? Stellan Skarsgård’s death was well executed, providing an eerie, chilling thrill that stands out as the single best scene. The deaths we did get were interesting choices. It could have felt over-the-top campy, but it just played right. The crew had to worry about hypothermia, burning rain from above, ravenously mean sharks below, and drowning as each submerged level burst open… all while climbing rickety emergency ladders that kept breaking to pieces. I was thrilled with the continuity of the flaming fragments from the kitchen level raining down the elevator shaft. (As with Zombies, decapitation of the head helps. He should have died in the explosion, but this is a movie, and here’s the thing in film: if you don’t see a dead body, you can’t take assume someone is dead. I loved his rude little parrot, how he hid in his own oven (yikes), and intelligently dispatched his shark. I didn’t realize he was LL Cool J until the credits rolled: I just really liked his character. I absolutely wanted the Chef/Preacher to survive. It’s a dodge, like having all the T-Rex scenes at night and in the rain in Jurassic Park. Is there a shark film out there where the shark kills all the people and gets away? Most of the shark scenes are in darkness like this. Overall : Deep Blue Sea is a lot of fun, and you get what you expect in a shark movie…people torn apart and/or eaten whole, guessing who’s the last one standing (or swimming), wondering how the sharks will die in the end. Each set is a ‘room’, tasking the dwindling group of survivors with puzzles to solve to level up towards freedom. I’m reminded a lot of the cool little film Escape Room from last year. (Plus, the shaft here makes actual sense, unlike the ubiquitous chasms in the Star Wars Galaxy of films.) This has to be one of the most creative uses of set concept I’ve seen. 😉 The story starts above the ocean, moves midway to around 60 feet under the sea, drops you down to the ocean floor…and agonizingly crawls back to the surface.

#SUBMARINE DEEP BLUE SHARK FULL#

Then the lower levels feel much like sets from submarine movies - cramped, utilitarian maintenance passageways, full of ladders, bottomless shafts, and Jeffries Tubes. (Go with it, because the kitchen scenes are worth it…and ALSO call back to a certain iconic Jurassic Park scene.) Somehow this place (with only a half-dozen staff I could see) employs a full time chef. Then there’s the undersea high-tech lab levels, complete with a pressure-sealed shark bay and the obligatory bank of monitors.Īlso, there’s the fancy Five Star stainless steel kitchen. There’s the above-sea catwalks and the sky tower, set around a Sea-World-type shark enclosure. This set design fully uses all dimensions and directions, including the logic of going down to go up. Think about it: in the water, you move around in three dimensions, rather than the two surface dwellers usually contend with. Deep Blue Sea makes use of the whole design, conceptually. The undersea laboratory Aquatica is an extraordinary base for action film-making. I’m getting nowhere without going into spoilers, so let me continue this part and move on.

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