{"id":42484,"date":"2026-08-26T07:58:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T11:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=42484"},"modified":"2026-08-25T21:37:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T01:37:29","slug":"deep-blue-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=42484","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Deep Blue Sea&#8221; (1999) directed by Renny Harlin \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z082626review_dbs.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"740\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Deep Blue Sea <\/i>(1999)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Renny Harlin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: \u00a0<strong>Duncan Kennedy, Donna Powers, Wayne Powers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars:\u00a0 <strong>Saffron Burrows, Thomas Jane, LL Cool J, Jacqueline McKenzie, Michael Rapaport, Stellan Skarsg\u00e5rd, Aida Turturro, <\/strong><strong>Samuel L. Jackson <\/strong>and <strong>Ronny Cox, Renny Harlin<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>Bigger. Smarter. Faster. Meaner.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At a remote research facility located on the deep sea, Dr. Susan McAlester leads a small group of scientists working to find a cure to Alzheimer&#8217;s disease.\u00a0 \u00a0McAlester&#8217;s research involves using proteins from the brains of three captured sharks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When one of the sharks uses an object as a battering ram to bust through an observation window, McAlester admits that she genetically altered the sharks&#8217; brains to make them bigger.\u00a0 Now the small research team is stranded in a sinking research facilty surrounded by sharks that are&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>Bigger. Smarter. Faster. Meaner.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ronny Cox appears uncredited as an Executive.\u00a0 Renny Harlin appears uncredited as a worker.<\/p>\n<p>*** SPOILERS &#8211; MAJOR SPOILERS FOLLOW***<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the original cut at the end of the film Saffron Burrows was the hero.\u00a0 Audiences in test screenings hated it because she was the reason the sharks were changed.\u00a0 Some of her scenes (that made her more sympathetic) were cut.\u00a0 Reshot footage had a shark kill her and made LL Cool J&#8217;s character the hero.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Suddenly killing off Russell Franklin (Samuel L. Jackson) well before the end of the movie was inspired by Tom Skerritt&#8217;s character&#8217;s demise in <em>Alien<\/em>.\u00a0 Killing the best known actor and lead character put the survivors in more jeopardy.\u00a0 When I first saw <em>Deep Blue Sea<\/em>, I was totally shocked when Samuel L. Jackson was killed.\u00a0 Well played, Renny Harlin.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><strong><i>Deep Blue Sea <\/i>(1999)<\/strong> rates 3 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z082626review_dbs2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"209\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deep Blue Sea (1999) Director: Renny Harlin Screenplay: \u00a0Duncan Kennedy, Donna Powers, Wayne Powers Stars:\u00a0 Saffron Burrows, Thomas Jane, LL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,53,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-horror","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42484"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42568,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42484\/revisions\/42568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}