Saffron Burrows plays a researcher trying to cure Alzheimer's disease by harvesting brain fluid from sharks. Samuel L. Jackson is the pharmaceutical company's rep who comes to spend a night at the researchers' elaborate underwater laboratory. Mistake?
McAlister has spent her career genetically engineering sharks to be bigger, stronger, and to have brains five times larger than your everyday shark. After she harvests enough brain juice from a ready specimen to impress the company honcho, forces of nature (hurricane) and non-nature (megasharks) combine to create tidal terror (or comedy, depending on your viewpoint).
As buildings flood and sharks escape and team up, our brilliant doctor has the sudden epiphany that if you make a shark's brain five times bigger, it will be five times smarter and might have the ability to plan a full attack against man. Duh!
This film received a panning from the critics with good reason. Although I'd go so far as to say that it's so bad that it's good. It does remind me a little of that beer ad with the two guys in the shark cage who pierce their tanks to make them shoot out of the water. Perhaps our heroes in this film need to change their brand of beer? I get a little claustrophobic watching underwater movies so that was enough to put me on edge. I'm also not good with horror/scary movies, as anything makes me jump so it doesn't have to be too great for me to enjoy the sensation of adrenalin that comes with a good horror flick. Combine my two weaknesses, and I'd say it wasn't too shabby.