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Deep Blue Sea is one of the worst films I have seen in recent history (it's tied with Lake Placid).
One of the worst offenses (ignoring the poor characters, effects and screen writing): you use "genetics" to make the shark brains big... so they become super-advanced to where they can understand chemical composition, weight bearing structures and some rather advanced physics. And then these oh-so-smart sharks decide that the easiest way to escape is to lower the facility so that they can get through the steel fence rather than the titanium fencing below the waterline. How did they know that the upper fence was weaker? Oh, I forgot, the big brains allow them to just "know" that. But wait, didn't one of the sharks escape earlier? They alluded to it jumping the fence, so why not just jump it now. It must be that they are idiot-savant sharks.
Or the "special" effects. Whoever was running the CGI that day forgot to change the physics from space settings to water settings. A shark manages to fling a gurney with oh so dramatically alive scientist on it through the water something like 50+ feet. Water has provides substantial resistance, and it looks like he's flying through the air. Of course the gurney hits with force enough to break reinforced glass (seemingly a foot thick) built to withstand great pressure... and despite such tremendous force the scientist is still alive and the gurney isn't even bent. Such lack of physics occurs in most other scenes with the sharks as they swim in bizarre sideways fashions at times.
These are just small examples of how awful the movie is.
The one bright moment of the movie (and it is the only one) is a wonderful little speech Samuel L. Jackson's character is giving to build morale of the desparate crew. Well, it's not the speech itself, but the end of the speech. Too bad the rest of the movie isn't as funny as that one scene.
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