

I came up wanting.” Although he sometimes utters a strong or mild obscenity, Sherman’s Christianity also plays an important role in the climax of the battle against the sharks. At a crucial, tense moment near the end, he leads several other survivors in a prayer while reciting part of Psalm 23, “The Lord is my shepherd.” Sherman also makes comments like “Death is always useless, Doctor” and “I have loved the pulpit and the bottle. Sherman shows real cleverness in battling one of the sharks, comes to the rescue several times during the story, compares himself to Daniel in the lion’s den, and prays to God for help while grasping the Cross he wears around his neck. The cook, whose name is Sherman Dudley and who is nicknamed “Preacher,” turns out to be the strongest, most heroic character in the whole movie. It also generates some corny dialogue, but the movie has its tongue firmly planted in its cheek, so it’s better just to sit back and enjoy the excitement of this popcorn movie. This, of course, generates lots of exciting action, narrow escapes and more gruesome deaths.

Carter, Franklin, the scientists, and the cook, played by rapper LL Cool J, then must avoid the sharks while climbing and swimming to safety. The smartest of the three sharks bites off the arm of one of the scientists and irreparably damages first the lab and then the whole facility. McAlester psychologically blackmails because of his criminal past. Unwittingly helping her is an expert diver named Carter Blake, played by Thomas Jane. Helping the doctor cut corners is one of the other scientists, played by Stellan Skarsgard of RONIN and GOOD WILL HUNTING. McAlester’s experiments are making the sharks smarter and faster because she has been doing something that violates the scientific procedures of the day. Unknown to her financial backer, Russell Franklin, played by Samuel L. According to the movie’s production notes, the mako is a highly prized sporting fish known for its speed and agility, clocking in at more than 60 mph. Susan McAlester (Saffron Burrows) and her team are experimenting on the brains of three mako sharks to find a cure for mental senility in human beings.


The story of DEEP BLUE SEA is mostly set aboard a floating laboratory called Aquatica. Best of all, the strongest, most heroic character in the whole movie turns out to be a Christian, played with panache by rap music star LL Cool J! Although this movie is rated R for strong foul language and for some gory, scary violence involving shark attacks, it just might put an end to the spate of box-office failures in this genre. Warner Bros., however, has finally captured the right elements in its new summer popcorn movie, DEEP BLUE SEA. Most of these movies, including such ones as SPHERE, DEEP SEA RISING and VIRUS, have been less than successful, artistically and financially. In such movies, a collection of misfits encounter a really scary monster in the confined corridors of a large ship or an experimental underwater facility. These movies are primarily monster movies done in the mode of the ALIEN series, which is set in outer space. Other cast includes Emerson Brooks ( MacGyver), Bren Foster ( The Last Ship), and Japanese star, Reina Aoi as Miya, a grad student who is part of Emma's small research team that is working on an island sinking in the Mozambique channel.In the past couple of years, Hollywood has released many movies that combine horror, science fiction and action in an ocean setting. Now, Emma and her crew are trapped on crumbling stilt houses mere feet over the ocean, caught between predators above and below the water."ĭeep Blue Sea 3 stars Tania Raymonde ( Lost, Goliath) as Emma Collins, a marine biologist who is committed to making the world a better place and Nathaniel Buzolic ( The Vampire Diaries, Hacksaw Ridge) an ex-boyfriend who has chosen money over ethics. The mission's patron, Richard Lowell, believes that the Bull Sharks contain the key to intelligence enhancement, which he secretly intends to sell for big profits. Unfortunately, the enhanced Bull Sharks that escaped in Deep Blue Sea 2 are also there with their own evolutionary goal: cross-breeding with the bigger faster Great Whites. In the film, "Emma Collins, an eminent marine biologist, and her crew have set up a mid-ocean laboratory over a sunken island town in the ocean where they are observing the first known Great White mating area.
