It's a spin that had a fair amount of potential, but ultimately leaves you a little disappointed that they didn't fully tap into how suspenseful, wild, and over-the-top it could've been.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 17, 2025

Renny Harlin effectively combines Die Hard-style action with sharks.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 28, 2024

Now considered a favorite cult film.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 4, 2023

Deep Blue Sea is overall a bit of a silly shark film, but it’s a really fun one with lots of action sequences.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 26, 2022

Despite the questionable fish visuals, several of the shark attack scenes are quite thrilling - utilizing suspense, comedy, nail-biting timing, and slimy animatronics.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Sep 11, 2020

This is the finest unabashedly campy B-movie of the '90s.

| Mar 25, 2019

It's the first summer blockbuster of 1999 that delivers more than its promotional trailer promises.

| Jan 11, 2019

A gory, trashy blockbuster that succeeds despite its waterlogged script.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 11, 2019

Although director Renny Harlin clearly knows his way around an action scene, he fails to make Deep seem, well, deep.

| Jan 11, 2019

If you like big summer action flicks with plenty of bite, check this one out. Then go out for a big sushi dinner. It'll make you feel better.

| Jan 11, 2019

It's just the thing for moviegoers wanting violent adventure, split-second editing, and enough water-drenched cinematography to make "Titanic" look parched.

| Jan 11, 2019

The film is full of the sort of knee-jerk shockers that leave audiences bursting into nervous laughter. It's a wild ride, and the less one thinks about it, the better.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 11, 2019

Scary, absurd, inessential.

| Jan 11, 2019

The characters are sufficiently naive to get picked off one by one, but their ignorance doesn't extend to the genre conventions governing their behavior, making for some shockingly funny moments.

| Jan 11, 2019

Deep Blue Sea, a sort of cross between Aliens (without the thrills) and The Poseidon Adventure (without the camp compensations), doesn't deliver the killer-shark-versus-A-list-character-actor thrills you crave.

| Jan 11, 2019

The angry man-munchers are the true stars of the show, outperforming leads Saffron Burrows and Samuel L. Jackson.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 15, 2018

'90s action-horror tale has bloody shark attacks, cursing.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 6, 2018

This highly unlikely story about genetically enhanced sharks that terrorize the scientists who created them is one summer movie that delivers exactly what it promises: nonstop popcorn thrills.

| Mar 6, 2018

Rare is the terrible film that's this upbeat and delightful and entertaining.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Oct 1, 2017

A soggy effort.

| Jun 18, 2012