Review – Deep Blue Sea

Hollywood takes a serious swim in shark-infested waters for the first time since Jaws (to which there is a brief license-plate homage early in the film). In order to avoid falling into the just-another-rubber-shark movie pit that trapped the Jaws sequels and a handful of other pictures, the filmmakers came up with a couple of gimmicks: the sharks are played by a combination of expensive life-sized models and computer graphics, and the beasts are supposed to have been made super-intelligent by medical research. The result is a film with a great deal of high-quality gore and enough deep bass in the soundtrack that if you see it in a theater with decent speakers it will take your innards back to the halcyon days of Sensurround. However, it goes without saying that there’s a big old bunch of animal suffering and death along the way. Mildly amusing