I went to see this film thinking it was going to be a remake of Jaws, but on a much bigger scale, and it does in places smack of Jaws, are at least points out were Spielberg could have taken a risk or two.
It is unfair to compare them on effects as there is 25 years of technical advances gone into movies between them.
THE STORY:- An old naval submarine base is where a group of scientist are searching for a cure to Alzheimer’s disease, part of the research includes enlarging sharks brains to harvest a particular chemical to cure the brain bug. Susan McAlester (Saffron Burrows) as head scientist and daughter of an Alzheimer’s sufferer tries to justify the procedure even though people are dying around her in this giant fish tank. Samuel L Jackson plays a businessman who sinks his fortune in the project (I expected him to get to the end of the film, wait for the ’’We must pull together to survive’’ speech) who goes to the research establishment the day after ’’an unfortunate accident’’, only to meet his own in the end. L L Cool J, plays the preaching cook, or was it cooking preacher anyway in the film you know he will survive when he utters the line ’’I’m going to die, The Black guy always dies’’, though at several places he could well be right.
Watch this film. Forget any other big fish stories, and watch it on its own merits. The Acting is good, the effects are outstanding, plot is a little ropey but is made up for in the other areas.