I am 34, married to Hazel and we have one son, Matthew and a daughter Erin, they are both absolutely...
I am 34, married to Hazel and we have one son, Matthew and a daughter Erin, they are both absolutely adorable.
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I went to see this film thinking it was going to be a remake of Jaws, but on a much bigger scale, and it does in places smack of Jaws, are at least points out were Speilberg could have taken a risk or two.
It is unfair to compare them on effects as there is 25 years of technical advances gone into movies between them.
THE STORY:- An old naval submarine base is where a group of Scientists are searching for a cure to Alzheimer's disease, part of the research includes enlarging sharks brains to harvest a particular chemical to cure the brain bug. Susan McAlester (Saffron Burrows) is the head scientist but is also the daughter of an Alzheimer's sufferer. She tries to justify the proceedure even though people are dying around her in this giant fish tank. Samual L Jackson plays a businessman who sinks his fortune in the project (I expected him to get to the end of the film, wait for the "We must pull together to survive" speech) who goes to the research establishment the day after "an unfortunate accident", only to meet his own in the end. L L Cool J, plays the preaching cook, or was it cooking preacher. Anyway, you know he will survive when he utters the line "I'm going to die, the black guy always dies", in several places during the film.
Watch the film in its own right, forget any other big fish stories, and grade it for its own merits. The Acting is good, the effects are outstanding, plot is a little ropey but this is made up for in the other areas.
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I must admit, that I didn't really watch this film, but then I never do. Except "The Mummy Returns", but we actually went to the cinema to see that. Great Op. Claire
richiewalk84 14.01.2001 15:01
I thought one or two of the special effects looked dated but the scene where poor old Samuel L Jackson got his made me spill my coffee, i wasn't expecting that bot on the whole i felt it had a decent story line and like you i enjoyed it. Goog Op. keep it up
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