Sometimes you just need shark movies to make your summer sing. I just saw “Deep Blue Sea" on the big screen a year ago and wrote about it then. I'm not sure that there's a lot to add. This Renny Harlan action film takes full advantage of an ocean location, and Genetically Enhanced sharks, to give us a few Frights, and suspense to sit through.
I can't wax poetically about the film the way my former co-host on the Lambcast can, but I can appreciate that this may be the second best Shark film ever put into theaters to make summer audiences happy that they paid their ticket price. The presence of Samuel L Jackson, makes the first half of the movie a lot more suspenseful than it really is. I do think that we could probably do with a prequel film that explores the Avalanche experience where Jackson's character survived. Spoiler alert: he doesn't have the same level of success with the sharks.
Thomas Jane as our hero Carter, does a great job looking well and acting frightened. When we get to the end of the film, it's a little bit more believable because this is the way he's been throughout the movie. LL Cool J makes a good impression as an actor, but they ran the rap song he did for the movie right before the film screened, I think moving into acting was the right choice. Maybe our favorite lines that we've quoted for years come from his advice that the perfect omelet is made with two eggs not three. I follow that advice whenever I'm making breakfast.
