Honestly no better shark movie since

This in the top 3 for me. But there was a movie about a incident that happened during WW2 named the Mission of the Shark. Stacey Keach was in it. It was like a horror story because the ship had been torpedoed but no one knew the ship was even out in the water because it was a top secret mission. Well all you saw was sailors being picked off one by one by sharks. Now that movie is either number 1 or 2 with Jaws. It was a true story so it makes it scarier.

I'm surprised that people are still discussing a mediocre shark movie from 1999. I watched this on cable last night because it came on after Jaws and there was nothing else on that caught my interest. I kept hoping it would get better, but I can't say that it ever did.


In heaven everything is fine.

It doesn't surprise me at all that some people prefer this over Jaws 2. Jaws 2 may be a decent sequel (far superior than any that followed), but it does suffer from several things that make it less enjoyable than Deep Blue Sea -such as tedious pacing at times, annoying characters (screaming teenagers), rehashed plot points (Vaughn's refusal to believe Brody yet again was ridiculous to say the least), and seemed to take itself a bit too seriously for the most part.
Deep Blue Sea felt more straight to the point as a B-grade monster movie, with much better pacing and more re-watchability in my opinion, and the talking parrot and LL Cool J made for effective comic relief which was the intention.

You and the other detractors always heavily complain about the CGI, and yes it is weak but it's actually used very little for the most part. Instead, the film mostly makes use of animatronic models that aren't just passable, they're incredible -the design, the movements, the texture... everything! The animatronics in Jaws 2 are decent, but still weak in comparison to those in the original film (the part where the shark's mouth visibly bends is distracting).

John Williams' score isn't that great either, aside from the cues it takes from the original film's theme, there's nothing really memorable about it -where's Trevor Rabin's fusion of the Jaws and Psycho themes for the Deep Blue Sea score had me riveted all the way through.

Then of course there's the characters. Sure, the late Roy Scheider gives it his all, but his screentime is overshadowed by what eventually becomes a teen slasher movie with a shark. Deep Blue Sea may have some over-the-top characters and performances but I'll take them over the screaming teenagers in Jaws 2 any day.

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