Critics Scoreboard
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Average Critic Score:
54
(22 sources)
54
(22 sources)
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90
Newsweek
Deep Blue Sea gives good rush -- earning its stripes as one terrific junk movie. Read Full Review » -
80
Dallas Observer
Not everything in the film happens according to the traditional, overly familiar blueprint. Read Full Review » -
80
Los Angeles Times
An example of how expert action filmmaking and up-to-the-minute visual effects can transcend a workmanlike script and bring excitement to conventional genre material. Read Full Review » -
75
ReelViews
It proves capable of doing something that many more artistically ambitious films fail at: entertaining an audience for nearly two hours. Read Full Review » -
75
San Francisco Chronicle
One of the few big-fish horror films that still has the power to surprise. Read Full Review » -
75
Chicago Sun-Times
After slogging through the predictability of countless would-be action thrillers, I admired the sheer professionalism of this one, which doesn't transcend its genre, but at least honors it. Read Full Review » -
70
The New York Times
Imagine a cut-rate "Titanic" stripped of romance and historical resonance and fused with "Jaws," shorn of mythic symbolism and without complex characters, and you have the essence of this live-action horror comic. Read Full Review » -
70
Chicago Reader
At once self-conscious and generic, this smart monster movie about smart monsters -- supersharks cleverer than the scientist who created them -- repeatedly lulls you into thinking it's paint by numbers. Read Full Review » -
70
Washington Post
This movie's entire raison d'etre (that's French for "shark meat") is to toy creatively with the "rules." Read Full Review » -
70
Film Threat
If distinctly uneven CGI, minimal originality and overly convenient plot devices turn you off, this may not be your film. Read Full Review » -
67
Entertainment Weekly
How refreshing: a big-budget, F/X-happy action flick that actually appears to be intentionally stupid. Read Full Review » -
60
Variety
Powered by exceptional displays of physical filmmaking, Deep Blue Sea is pulled back to shore by the usual suspects -- weak plotting and weaker dialogue. Read Full Review » -
60
Washington Post
You have a movie in which sharks with triple-digit IQs hunt humans with double-digit IQs. It’s no contest. Read Full Review » -
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
One of those stupid movies that are good to relax with. Read Full Review » -
50
TV Guide
The characters are two-dimensional and the story is intensely formulaic. Read Full Review » -
50
Austin Chronicle
A preposterously silly bit of work, chock-full-o' nuts and rife with the kind of plot holes you could drive a submersible ROV through. Read Full Review » -
40
Village Voice
One of those hellishly predictable digital-monster gauntlets that makes you pity the actors. Read Full Review » -
40
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25
Chicago Tribune
Even overlooking the fundamental inanity of the movie, one is left to contend with some offensive racial stereotyping. Read Full Review » -
25
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
So uninvolving as basic storytelling that it quickly becomes boring. Read Full Review » -
25
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20
The New Yorker
The disgraceful script is by Duncan Kennedy, Donna Powers, and Wayne Powers. Directed with occasional flashes of nasty wit by Renny Harlin. Read Full Review »
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