Deep Blue Sea (1999)

In search of a cure for Alzheimer's Disease, a team of scientists experiment with the brains of sharks, making them smarter and faster. When a corporate executive (Samuel L. Jackson) comes to tour the facility the sharks start an uprising that threatens not only the project but the lives of the team. Familiar yet entertaining work by director Renny Harlin.

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Although mako sharks are among the fastest and deadliest predators in the ocean, they're not as smart as humans -- at least, they weren't. However, Dr. Susan McAlester (Saffron Burrows) has been using mako sharks as her test subjects for research on the regeneration of human brain tissues. McAlester has altered the DNA of several sharks, raising them close to the level of human intelligence; the sharks have also become faster and stronger in the process. While these DNA experiments have yielded fascinating results, they're also of questionable ethics and legality, earning her the distrust of several members of he...
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r crew, including shark authority Carter Blake (Thomas Jane and cook "Preacher" Dudley (LL Cool J). The financial backers of these experiments have also expressed skepticism, so when McAlester is ready to perform some major tests, financier Russell Franklin (Samuel L. Jackson) arrives for the occasion. McAlester and her team are delicately extracting brain tissue from one of the altered makos when the animal regains consciousness - and becomes very angry. The shark not only attacks the researchers but also damages the floating lab, leaving the crew aboard a literally sinking ship, with the makos eager to go a few rounds - in an arena that favors sharks. Deep Blue Sea was directed by Renny Harlin, and filmed in Mexico at Fox Studios Baja in the underwater filming facilities created for James Cameron's Titanic.
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Zakenman Russell Franklin investeert vele miljoenen dollars in een medisch project dat een remedie moet vinden tegen de ziekte van Alzheimer. Biologe Susan McAllister schaart zich achter het project en heeft ontdekt dat er zich in de hersenen van haaien een stof bevindt die menselijke hersencellen opnieuw kan activeren. Om haar research te vervolledigen en een nog efficiënter geneesmiddel te kunnen ontwikkelen, gaat Susan over tot de genetische manipulatie van haaien. Ze kweekt exemplaren met een enorme hersencapaciteit, maar ontdekt dat de haaien er zo bijzonder intelligent en bovendien zo ontzettend agressief v...
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