With the trailer for Jason Statham blockbuster The Meg dropping last week, I felt in the mood for some silly shark horror. Look what swam my way...
While it's hard to hate too much on a film in which the lead actress appears to be unable to zip up her coat or wetsuit because of her heaving chest, Deep Blue Sea 2 really isn't that great, being a predictable rehash of the first film, the set-up and structure almost identical to Renny Harlin's '99 hit. Imaginative it most certainly is not.
Danielle Savre plays shark expert Misty Calhoun (which sounds more like a stripper's name than a scientist's), who is hired by eccentric billionaire Carl Durant (Michael Beach) to join his team in the high-tech undersea lab where they are conducting experiments on bull sharks. As in Harlin's movie, the crew of the facility become trapped below the surface, leaving them to try and find a way to the top before the complex floods or they are eaten, either by the artificially intelligent sharks or a school of equally ravenous offspring.
Presumably working on a much lower budget than the original, director Darin Scott must be given credit for achieving some well-executed CGI effects sequences, and a couple of decent gory moments (most graphic scene: a character minus his lower half, his entrails hanging from his torso), but for the most part the action is rather unremarkable, devoid of suspense or tension, a case of 'seen it all before and done much better'.
While it's hard to hate too much on a film in which the lead actress appears to be unable to zip up her coat or wetsuit because of her heaving chest, Deep Blue Sea 2 really isn't that great, being a predictable rehash of the first film, the set-up and structure almost identical to Renny Harlin's '99 hit. Imaginative it most certainly is not.
Danielle Savre plays shark expert Misty Calhoun (which sounds more like a stripper's name than a scientist's), who is hired by eccentric billionaire Carl Durant (Michael Beach) to join his team in the high-tech undersea lab where they are conducting experiments on bull sharks. As in Harlin's movie, the crew of the facility become trapped below the surface, leaving them to try and find a way to the top before the complex floods or they are eaten, either by the artificially intelligent sharks or a school of equally ravenous offspring.
Presumably working on a much lower budget than the original, director Darin Scott must be given credit for achieving some well-executed CGI effects sequences, and a couple of decent gory moments (most graphic scene: a character minus his lower half, his entrails hanging from his torso), but for the most part the action is rather unremarkable, devoid of suspense or tension, a case of 'seen it all before and done much better'.