Sex objects (7/28/99)
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Deep Blue Sea. [Renny Harlin, 1999. Written by Duncan Kennedy and Wayne Powers.]
Brilliant bombshell molecular biologist Saffron Burrows, obsessed with the quest for a cure for Alzheimer’s disease [you can guess the backstory], discovers the requisite silver bullet in the biochemistry of the shark cortex and constructs a seagoing laboratory [said to be some kind of floating submarine pen but resembling more an offshore drilling platform and having in any case no real design requirement save that it should flood easily during the hurricane the writers conjure up to end Act One] for the purpose of breeding sharks with oversized brains, the better to harvest her magic protein. The sharks, thus mentally amplified, develop their own ideas, with the predictable result: really smart sharks eat really dumb people. Naturally this is entertaining as hell. — With Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Rapaport, and LL Cool J [an actor who promises to be every bit as good as Ice Cube] as the preacher/cook. Try to guess who gets munched first.
____________Lawyers in love (7/8/99)
