Harlin's Blue Sea a Lark with Sharks for Director Renny Harlin, It's Good to Go Back in the Water
THE PRETRIEVER FEATURES August 8, 1999 PAGE19 Harlin's Blue Sea a Lark With Sharks For director Renny Harlin, it's good to go back in the water. Four years after his pirate debacle Cutthroat Island drowned at the .box office and sank a studio - Carolco Films-Harlin is again plunder ing a mostly oce anic setting in Deep by.Jamie Peck Blue Sea (*** out of four). The surprising result: a movie with bite, and not just because this loud-and-proud thriller plays very much like Jaws on crank. A set-up that sounds Artisan Entertainment supremely goofy still allows for plenty of Extreme Close-Up: When the going gets monster-flick fun, from the game perfor rough in The Blair Witch Project, terrified mances to the gory special effects to the college filmmaker Heather Donahue grisly body count: turns the camera on herself. Forgive Deep Blue Sea of its wince-inducing exposition, which makes it seem destined for straight-to-video Blair Witch oblivion: Scientists aboard a floating labo ratory in the Caribbean, desperately searching for an Alzheimer's cure, have Phenom Hits genetically enhanced mako sharks for their groovy brain tissue, only the test subjects tum on them after inadvertently Horror Home gaining supersmarts from the experiment. from BLAIR WITCH, page 18 Silly mortals. It's not nice to fool Mother Nature, especially if Mother Nature is 25 waypoint seven. Look up in the trees." Amaz feet long, 8,000 pounds, irritable, fast and ingly, all but two of the scenes were done in hungry. a single take.
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