![]() Now, while I would also agree that the characters are less than solid and guilty of making a whole bunch of decisions that no half-rational person would (like swimming directly behind a machine that’s churning out seal chum) I’m not completely with you on the first half. Even as I write this, just remembering the sheer insanity of it all puts yet another smile on my face. I honestly couldn’t believe how over the top this movie was getting as I watched it, and how much fun I was having. There are a handful of deaths throughout Deep Blue Sea 3 that are almost as great as the original’s best (which is one of my all-time favorites) and the action surrounding those untimely demises is solidly entertaining too. Once it builds up its momentum, Deep Blue Sea 3 turns into a wonderfully cheesy and surprisingly hilarious action-horror romp that had me gasping or laughing quite often. And when I say more, I mean jaw dropped guffaws of flabbergasting more.īen: I definitely agree with you on the movie’s the back half, Lauren. ![]() Suffice it to say, about half way through the movie I was ready to start this writeup with “welp, Deep Blue Sea 3 is pretty forgettable, but at least it isn’t the soaking wet sewage fire that is Deep Blue Sea 2?”īut then the second half happened and JFC, once the sharks start hitting the fan the movie becomes pretty much everything I wanted and more. Secondly, there are maybe three likeable characters in the film, and that’s only if you add two characters who deserved far more screen time than they were given together (one being Sally the great white shark, the other being Nandi, whose actress, Avumile Qongqo, isn’t even currently listed on the IMDb page even though she has far more lines than the upper half of another actor who did make the cut). That alone won’t sink a film when it comes to this genre or franchise, but the fact that I was constantly asking some version of “why the Hell did they do that?” was becoming a bit of a distracting problem as the characters continued to prove that maybe it’s not that the sharks are getting smarter – sharks that can recognize what a mine is and that a weapon being pointed at another as a threat, but not that a tracking beacon is not their mom, mind you – so much as that humans are getting dumber. For starters, the plot is unsurprisingly stupid. Lauren: I’m just gonna say it: Deep Blue Sea 3 is not a great movie. Is the trilogy capper (I’m honestly in shock that we have a Deep Blue Sea trilogy now) a dumb fun adventure like the original, or just dumb like Deep Blue Sea 2? Read on to see what Lauren and I think. Now, in the year of our Lord 2020, a third Deep Blue Sea has just dropped on VOD. Ben: Nearly two decades after Deep Blue Sea first released, fans of the super smart shark horror film – like Lauren and I – were happily surprised when Syfy announced a sequel. ![]()
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