Product: Deep Blue Sea
Company: Warner Brothers
Review By: Byron Hinson
Price: $20:99

Aspect Ratio	Regional Information		DVD Disc Details
2.35 : 1 Anamorphic Widescreen	1 : USA	NTSC	Closed Captioning: CC Master format: Film Sides: 1 (SS-RSDL) Chapter stops: 33 Average Bit Rate: 6 Running Time: 124 Mins

Sound:	English	Commentary
	5.1	2.0
Subtitles:

There are certain types of films that you don't change or mess about with unless it is going to be very good. For example, Indiana Jones is an excellent film, a classic even. With the recent release of the Mummy it showed that it is possible to make a good film in the same genre as Indy and still do well. With Deep Blue Sea, Renny Harlin tries to make a film in the same genre as Jaws....and pretty much succeeds.

The storyline goes a bit like this: Researchers on the undersea laboratory Aquatica have genetically altered the brains of captive sharks to develop a potential cure for Alzheimer's disease. There is one unexpected side effect. The sharks are getting smarter.

The main difference between this film and Jaws is the fact that the researchers are trapped in the lab which is slowly sinking. The way the research center actually begins to sink is quite scary and will send shivers down your spine. The sense of claustrophobia in this film is something that you will notice after a while.

How It Grades
		Picture Quality: 90% Sound: 92% Special Features: 90% Movie Overall: 80% DVD Overall: 87%

On the visual quality side of things there is some CGI used in the film and generally it is quite good. But there are some places where it is very obvious that it is CGI. Even though the non CGI shark is mechanical it actually looks more like a real shark than the CGI one and It can move independently as shown in one of the special features of the DVD. In terms of the picture quality of the DVD, everything is pretty sound with very little degradation showing up on screen.

All in all this is a good DVD with a lot of special features. Even though there are some gapping holes in the movies with certain subjects not completely clarified, this is a film that you will go back to.