![]() ![]() Realizing now that the big shark is too dangerous to be set free into the wild, Susan decides that she and Carter would have to kill her.Ĭarter devised a plan to kill the big shark: he would fire a harpoon filled with dynamite powder at the shark, and that Susan would have to connect the trailing wire to a car battery that will send in an electric current to blow it up. As Susan, Carter, and Preacher finally head up to the surface, Preacher ends up being attacked and dragged on the leg by the third and final shark (presumably the big one), but he manages to swim to safety by stabbing the shark's eye with his crucifix, forcing it to let him go.Īfter tending to Preacher's injured leg, Susan and Carter learn of a horrible realization: the sharks have been herding the team into flooding the facility so that they could escape through the plain steel fences at the surface into the open deep blue sea. The Big One revealed herself to the last survivors to tries to reach the surface, but she got the fire with vests. But she didn’t want to eat Carter that trying to escape from her and letting him go. The Big One has her next victim was Tom Scoggins, who ended up being devoured while trying to help Carter activate some controls to drain the water from a stairwell leading to the surface. Much later, she jumps out of the pool, grabs a distracted Franklin from behind, drags him into the water and kills him while the remaining small shark swims up to her, rips off his upper body and swims away with it. ![]() Big Shark throws Jim's gurney at the window, breaking it and flooding the lab, killing him in the process. Big Shark attacks Jim and bites off his arm, much to the shock of others. She reached lengths up to 45-67 feet (13-20 meters), while the other two didn't reach even half of her size. This had the side effect of them becoming bigger, smarter and more dangerous, developing the ability to swim backwards, although she took it much further than her brethren, and became the largest of them, a monstrous Big Shark and leader of the trio. They were experimented on and fluids from their brain were harvested to create a cure from them, but their brains were too small to provide enough fluid so Susan and Jim mutated them to increase their brain size. The sequel is another matter entirely.This shark and the other two sharks were caught and brought to Aquatica to be used as a test subjects as Aquatica's crew tried to create a cure for Alzheimer's and used sharks for it. Add to that a rather moving score by Trevor Rabin and you have a movie worth watching, at least once for the bloody bits, and once for the grins and laughs. Some of the shark effects have not held up well, while others, particularly made with animatronics, would frighten me almost as much as the real thing. Sometimes you just want to sit back and enjoy the ride. Some of the chess games that are supposedly played by the sharks on the humans are obviously the writers giving us a plot, but oh, what a fun plot it is. Is the plot a bit ridiculous? Most definitely. The rest of the cast is more than adequate, and director Renny Harlin realizes that fun and horror can mix, even in an R-rated movie. Jackson has one of his most memorable moments, the kind I wish I could’ve witnessed in theaters as a kid. LL Cool J as the cook, adequately named Preacher, walks the line between simple comic relief and the deeper struggles one would try to deflect in the face of danger. While Thomas Jane as a shark wrangler meets the action checklist, there’s plenty else to digest aside from the occasional cast member. As the survivors struggle to reach the next level of the base, I always find myself engaged. So why this movie? For starters, I cared about the characters and their philosophies. When a tropical storm begins and the sharks begin to act up, the group finds themselves trapped underwater at risk of being eaten, drowned, or cooked alive in an oven. The cure for Alzheimer’s may be one needle away. ![]() Susan McAlester (Saffron Burrows) tries to extract data from the creatures now larger brains. These sharks have become bigger, fiercer, and evidently smarter as the scientific team led by Dr. Jackson) travels to a facility he’s funding that has been experimenting on three mako sharks. The basic premise is similar to Jurassic Park, but I’ll break it down.
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