They must be captured and taken back to the research facility from which they escaped. He's tracking three bull sharks who are known to be extremely dangerous. Soon after, a ship arrives carrying Richard Lowell ( Nathan Buzolic), a former colleague of Emma's, and his crew. The first sign that something is amiss in their world is the discovery of two great white sharks who have been attacked and killed by an unknown predator. The humans and the powerful fish coexist, and the work is fulfilling and important. Concerned about the changing ecosystem, Emma, with a small team, researches the effects of climate change on the habitat's bountiful species, and great white sharks in particular. Living on Little Happy Island is Emma Collins ( Tania Raymonde), a scientist who carries on the work of her deceased father. Three bull sharks glide side by side through the Indian Ocean in DEEP BLUE SEA 3, heading toward an almost abandoned island village off the east coast of Africa.
Amidst the mayhem, the film has a strong, wise female hero, and delivers sound messages about the dangers of climate change and genetic engineering. Beer and shots are consumed in social settings, never excessively. Swearing is heard occasionally: "f-k," "s-t," "ass," "bitch." There's one kiss and some revealing bathing suits. Explosions, fire, flooding, and human hand-to-hand battles kill almost everyone the sharks can't get their jaws around. The highly suspenseful, vivid, and sometimes over-the-top action includes decapitation, dismemberment, attacks on unsuspecting scientists and technicians, and lots of blood and gore. Neither Deep Blue Sea 2 nor Deep Blue Sea 3 is a sequel to the original however, in this one, the genetically engineered sharks that were created in Deep Blue Sea 2 are on the move again, coming up against a new cast and story.
quality as a cook whose best friend is a parrot, and who hides from the shark in an oven, which the shark cleverly sets to 500 degrees.Parents need to know that Deep Blue Sea 3 is the third in a series of stand-alone horror-thrillers in which humans tangle with powerful sharks.
The surprise in the cast is LL Cool J, who has a kind of Cuba Gooding Jr. Jane handles most of the action duties, convincingly if of course not plausibly (in other words, he looks like he can hold his breath underwater indefinitely, even though we know it's impossible). Jackson is more or less the straight man in the cast. There's a little perfunctory scientist-bashing, but not much (the Burrows character violates ethical guidelines, but, hey, it's for a good cause-fighting Alzheimer's). The sharks exist in "Deep Blue Sea'' as the Macguffins, creating situations that require the characters to think fast, fight bravely, improvise their way out of tight spots, dangle between flames and teeth, etc.
The most obvious problem with this premise is that just because a shark is smarter doesn't mean it has more information the smartest shark in the world would only know how to be a smart shark unless it had a way to learn.īut never mind. Its premise is that the shark brains have been increased fivefold, with a corresponding increase in intelligence, so that the sharks can figure out the layout of the station and work together to batter down watertight doors, swim down corridors, etc. The shark attacks are intercut with a desperate escape plot, after storms and explosions incapacitate the station and the characters are trapped below the waterline in areas threatened by water pressure and sharks.Ĭommon sense of course has nothing to do with the screenplay, ingeniously devised by Duncan Kennedy, Donna Powers and Wayne Powers. Some of these characters turn up on the shark menu, although the timing and manner of their ingestion is often so unexpected that I'll say nothing more. Jackson) pays a visit to the station and meets the other key characters, including a shark wrangler ( Thomas Jane), a Bible-quoting cook (LL Cool J), and crew members including Jacqueline McKenzie, Michael Rapaport, Stellan Skarsgard and Aida Turturro.
One of the sharks escapes and tries to eat a boat. A big corporation underwrites the research, and maintains a deep-sea station with shark corrals and underwater living and research areas. The premise: A scientist ( Saffron Burrows) has devised a way to use the brain tissue of sharks to cultivate a substance that might be useful in fighting Alzheimer's disease.