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[[File:DeepBlueSea.jpg|frame|<small>[[Daft Punk (Music)|Harder. Better. Faster. Stronger.]]</small> ]]
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Dr. Susan McCallister, her team of scientists, and shark wrangler Jake Carter are researching a cure for Alzheimer's in a refurbished WWII Submarine refueling platform, using sharks to "grow" a protein that reactivates dead human neurons. However, the sharks' brains were too small, and the amounts of protein harvested were so small as to make the efforts unviable, so they use genetic engineering to give them larger brains. They kept the sharks corralled in [[Tempting Fate|an unbreakable mesh cage]] submerged in the ocean along with their labs. [[What Could Possibly Go Wrong?]]
After one of the sharks escapes and causes a PR fiasco, Russell Franklin, the CEO of the company funding their research, comes in to inspect their progress and see if they should be funded or shut down. ''Of course'' something Goes Horribly <s>[[Goes Horribly Wrong|Wrong]]</s> [[Gone Horribly Right|Right]].
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=== The movie has the following tropes. ===
* [[All There Is to Know About "The Crying Game"]]: {{spoiler|Franklin's}} [[Sedgwick Speech]] is far more famous than any other scene in the movie.
{{quote| "[[Chappelles Show|They ate me! A fuckin' shark ate me!"]]"}}
* [[As the Good Book Says]]: That's why they call him "Preacher".
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* [[Everything Is Even Worse With Sharks]]
* [[Famous Last Words]]
{{quote| {{spoiler|"We're going to pull together and we're gonna find a way to get outta here! [[Shut Up, Kirk|First, we're gonna seal off this--!]]"}}<br />
{{spoiler|"Come to Momma."}} }}
* [[Fan Service]]: Susan is being stalked through the flooded complex by a shark. She comes up with a plan to electrocute the shark, which requires an insulating sheet, which requires her to strip off her wetsuit.
* [[Focus Group Ending]]: This is why, contrary to genre expectations, {{spoiler|Preacher survives, and Susan doesn't.}} All things considered, [[Tropes Are Not Bad|it worked out pretty well]].
* [[For Science!]]: Averted. The cast rails against Susan's experiments, but it was never "for science," just for her dead father.
** That [[Berserk Button|pissed her off]], and stated that she doesn't need to justify her actions.
* [[Gone Horribly Right]]: Their efforts to make the shark's brains bigger succeeded spectacularly...
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* [[It Can Think]]
* [[Jaws First Person Perspective]]: It ''had'' to open with one.
* [[Kill
* [[Kill It With Fire]]: One way to kill a shark.
* [[MacGuffin]]: The Alzheimer's data disk Susan was trying to salvage. {{spoiler|It gets fried by electricity, which almost makes this a [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]]}}.
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* [[Ominous Crack]]: Shortly after the extraction of brain tissue from one of the genetically engineered mako sharks, {{spoiler|Dr. Whitlock}} is attacked by the supposedly sedated animal and has to be rushed to the surface. During the chaos that ensues, {{spoiler|Whitlock}}'s stretcher is dropped into the water by the crashing rescue helicopter and one of the sharks throws it against the laboratory's observation window, resulting in an [[Ominous Crack]].
* [[Polly Wants a Microphone]]: Preacher's parrot.
* [[Pre
* {{spoiler|[[Sacrificial Lion]]: Russell Franklin, played by Samuel L. Jackson.}}
* [[Scale of Scientific Sins]]: Giving sharks, already apex predators, ''an intelligence boost?!'' Yeah, people are gonna die.
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** Could be [[Shown Their Work]] too, as real makos are among the smarter and more agile of shark species. A great white wouldn't have done so well at navigating the flooded corridors.
** Might be attributed to [[Rule of Scary]], as [http://aka.media.entertainment.sky.com/image/unscaled/2009/3/13/Deep-Blue-Sea-08-3.jpg the pointed and jagged teeth] of the mutated makos in this film are considerably scarier than [http://eu.art.com/products/p954405493-sa-i4064365/posters.htm?ui=FDDA16EF663B4613882C3F53F56F6A95 the triangular ones] of the Great White.
* [[Shut Up, Kirk]]: An effective one. By a ''shark''.
* [[Supporting Protagonist]]: Let's face it. Preacher single-handedly kills one shark, miraculously saves everyone when one of their escape attempts fails, and in the end {{spoiler|saves the day by killing the last shark ''and'' giving Carter time to escape. Although escape would've been easier had Preacher not shot him in the leg with the harpoon gun while shooting the shark.}} He's also the only person in the entire movie who survives a direct attack by one of the sharks (the biggest one no less), even partially blinding it in the process.
** Carter also fits, as Susan is supposedly the focus of the movie (she's even in the poster).
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*** In other words, "I don't have to be faster than the shark, I just have to be faster than you." (While not realizing that the shark is fast enough to get you and you and you and then you.)
* [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]]: between Carter and Susan.
* [[Well
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Dr. Susan's actions prior to the film.
* [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]: Preacher, though at times it actually works out to his advantage.
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