Deep Blue Sea 2 (2018)
Rated R
Starring Danielle Savre, Rob Mayes, Michael Beach, Aaron Ellroy, Nathan Lynn,
Directed by Darin Scott
The Story:
A billionaire decides to do some experimenting on sharks... and chaos ensues!
Come on folks, this premise works great.
See: Jurassic Park.
See: Deep Blue Sea.
See?
As I've well documented over the years, when a new shark movie comes along, I'm always looking to add it to the pile and give it a try.
Most of the time, even if it's not a great movie, I appreciate that it was made and I have a good enough time to justify spending 90 minutes on a low budget B movie.
In the last few years, I've even been rewarded with some pretty good shark movies to boot!
When I saw the trailer for Deep Blue Sea 2, I was amused that it seemed like it was going to be a note for note remake of the original film.
Well, how bad could that be, because I absolutely love the first one!
Yet it wasn't... and I didn't.
Everything that was great about the first one was missing from this tired retread.
They got nothing right for that matter, except for sharks gnawing on people... and even that wasn't very well done.
No stars of any caliber at all... wooden performances...
Not one bit of interesting plot or action...
It made 90 minutes feel like a 3 hour tour of the worst kind.
Had they called it any other cheesy shark movie name, I may have been kinder.
But when you hang an anchor around a fun franchise and sully its good name, I'm less kind.
