1999 · action · horror · sci-fi
Deep Blue Sea
Directed by Renny Harlin1h 45m1999
Researchers on the undersea lab Aquatica have genetically altered the brains of captive sharks to develop a cure for Alzheimer's disease. But there's an unexpected side effect: the sharks got smarter, faster, and more dangerous. After a big storm damages their remote research facility, they must fight for their lives.
Our read: Deep Blue Sea (1999) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive action · horror · sci-fi entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme action / horror, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
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