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This is a movie where Jason Statham is the lead character and the antagonist is a terribly done CGI shark and the studio was really banking on Chinese audiences making the budget back. None of the actors can act (other than Rainn Wilson, but he just doesn't mesh with his character), most of the effects look terrible, and the story is repetitive ad unoriginal. It really does feel like a what we would get if a SyFy Channel movie was given a $150 million budget. Rainn Wilson's character has invest millions of dollars to create what looks like an oil rig in the middle of the ocean, but I'm not sure what he was ever hoping to get out of it that would make him any money? The lead scientist believes that what we have always assumed was the bottom of the Mariana Trench is actually just a layer of hydrogen sulfide and that there is an entire new ecosystem bellow it. Okay, where is the money in that? The maiden crew get attacked by something and Jason Statham is brought in to rescue them. Again, this feel like a made for TV movie with a much. much bigger budget: the story is stupid, the acting is awful, and the effects are bad. It is a kind of fun movie and for awhile it's exciting, but we just keep hitting the same notes again and again hoping that we'll get something new soon. This biggest issue is that everything cool that you'd expect from this movie is where they skimp on things. I wanted tons of action and gore and explosions and adrenaline, but all of that was toned down. The movie is about a giant shark and we get exactly zero fun gore scenes or blood baths. The scene depicted in the movie poster should have been the highlight of the movie, but it's actually the most disappointing. I wanted a big dumb action movie where I could just turn my brain off and watch a bad ass shark chomp some people in half, but all I got was a big, dumb movie that had its brain turned off.
By : Greg Mueller | Date : 3 years ago
