Inside her multi-million dollar research center "Aquatica," Doctor Susan McAlester (Saffron Burrows) breeds a new generation of sharks with genetically engineered brains. These fish's enlarged brains will provide the right amount of a unique tissue needed to secure her miracle cure for Alzheimer's disease. The promise of a revolutionary treatment blended with the doctor's headstrong ambition for power, produce the perfect formula for trouble. Shark expert Carter Blake (Thomas Jane), financial investor Russell Franklin (Samuel L. Jackson), scientist Jim Whitlock (Stellan Skarsgard), and Aquatica's chef, Sherman "Preacher" Dudley ( LL Cool J as the film's comic relief), are among the few who are trapped inside a crumbling Aquatica after the family of intelligent and resentful sharks decides to rebel.
Relying heavily on its sharks' reputation more so than on their performance, Deep Blue Sea contains numerous clumsy situations and absurd resolutions that weaken the plot. After the scientific premise is announced, little is left other than the fear of the vicious predators' persecutions, a few but very graphic encounters, and a final moral lesson that speaks of the unjust tampering with nature and of the shark's powerful instinct to be free. |