In other words, Deep Blue Sea 3 seems to desperately want to ignore its predecessor by paying homage to the first film. He goes for broke in over the top action sequences and death scenes, while giving a new spin on the most memorable moments from the original film. While Pogue has his actors play it straight, it’s quickly apparent that the sole intent here is to bring big dumb shark fun. It’s the precise type of cheese you’d expect from a Syfy original, but with a slicker coat of polish. These genetically enhanced bull sharks are bad news, but so is the amoral and authoritarian team sent to retrieve them.įrom the dialogue to the overwrought drama between Emma and her ex, this sequel makes no pretense about what type of film it’s aiming to be. The arrival of the scientific team works to ramp up the tension and deliver exposition for those that skipped past the previous film.
Emma’s idyllic studies of the great whites and gorgeous, serene dive sequences are almost immediately interrupted when she finds their recently ravaged carcasses in the sharks’ nursery.
The audience is given just enough of an overview of the little shanty island, which looks so unstable that you know it’ll provide decent fodder for shark destruction later. Along with the last two residents of this crumbling fishing village, they’re forced into a battle for survival with the arrival of Deep Blue Sea 2 ’s escaped bull sharks and the scientific team – led by Emma’s ex, Richard ( Nathaniel Buzolic)- tasked with recapturing them.ĭirected by John Pogue ( Quarantine 2: The Terminal, The Quiet Ones ) and written by Dirk Blackman ( Underworld: Rise of the Lycans ), Deep Blue Sea 3 doesn’t waste much time getting straight to the shark fun. While the latest entry in this aquatic action-horror franchise continues part two’s dangling shark plot thread, it attempts to course correct and capture the original film’s sense of epic-scaled entertainment.ĭeep Blue Sea 3 stars Tania Raymonde ( Texas Chainsaw 3D, Lost ) as Emma Collins, a marine biologist studying the effects of climate change on great white sharks with her team on the tiny, abandoned island of Little Happy. Its direct-to-home release sequel, Deep Blue Sea 2, released in 2018 without much fanfare or critical praise, though the genetically enhanced sharks achieved something the preceding sharks could not – escape captivity to hunt in the open ocean. Renny Harlin’s 1999 big-budget feature, Deep Blue Sea, reintroduced the shark to the summer blockbuster with grand spectacle and a heavy emphasis on action.
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