That was an excellent one.

Highly Overrated But Still Good

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

We watched this film in school the other day. I thought that it would have just been some half-hour National Geographic special on the ocean, but it was actually a real movie. They showed us creatures at the bottom of the ocean, and more. The cinematography was excellent, and the music score was also well-done. It always fit with what was going on. It wasn't just some footage from Jaws 4 and an Australian-voiced cartoon character making shark jokes. It was a very well done film, and it was narrated by Pierce Brosnan of James Bond fame. I suggest renting it or something. Hope this review was helpful and all. I give Deep Blue an 8/10.

I have just watched three hours of the Galapagos on the National geographic Channel, and am preparing to watch 11 hours on Planet earth on Discovery. What a joy to see this film, narrated by Pierce Brosnan in between.Fi9lmed at the deepest ocean where no light can pierce, the colors and lights that are created by the inhabitants outshine any laser show that you can imagine.This is the wonder and beauty of our planet at its best. I cannot imagine why we have to travel to other worlds, when we have this one waiting for us.

The footage was breathtaking, especially the deep sea scenes. I've seen shows and movies on the deep sea, but this was truly something special. It was almost unbelievable that BBC could capture these creatures that looked like something out of a very vivid imagination - nothing like I would expect any life forms to resemble. I couldn't help but get irritated at the orcas in the film, though, but I guess the portrayal was fair - they are on top of the food chain, and as such, they can eat anything they want. Anyway, I rated this movie somewhat poorly because the DVD cover showed a picture with a large emperor penguin, and a little baby penguin in front of it. I LOVED March of the Penguins, and I was really excited to see another filmmaker's take on the emperor penguins, even if it was not the focus of the whole movie. Yes, there were emperor penguins, but no little penguins! The penguin scene took up less than 5 minutes of the whole movie, and I felt cheated. I felt misled by the DVD cover, and I wanted to warn other penguin lovers out there - this is really not your movie if you want to have a good deal of penguin time.

We went to see this on the understanding that it was an aquatic equivalent to 'Winged Migration', but we were left sorely disappointed on a number of levels. The score was horrible, completely over the top and intrusive. The narration was misjudged. Whereas 'Winged Migration' had minimalist narration and you were left to just drink in the images, 'Deep Blue' had enough to interrupt your concentration on the images, but not enough to be genuinely informative. Quite often you found yourself waiting for a scene to be explained that never was, and the rest of the time you were just wanting it to be quiet. And because of the nature of the footage, some scenes had to be explained - a scuffle between a killer whale and a seal in the surf may have been dramatic, but without a voice-over telling you what was happening, it was just so much water being thrashed about. And as with the score, in places the narration was overly dramatic, as if the writers didn't think the footage exciting enough on it's own.By far the biggest disappointment, though, was the footage itself. Wonderfully shot and truly breath-taking and fascinating at times, granted.But whereas 'Winged Migration' was shot as a movie - it was brand new footage that had been shot with that project in mind - 'Deep Blue' is a compilation of BBC clips. So much of the footage had been seen before - how many times has that footage of the killer whale hunting seals on the beach been used, for example. And when we saw the movie, the footage of the dolphins, seals, sharks and birds hunting the huge shoals of sardines that bookended the movie had been on television only the week before. Film like that should always be breath-taking, naturally, but there does come a point when you have seen a certain clip a number of times that it loses it's magic. Ultimately, whereas 'Winged Migration' was spell-binding, 'Deep Blue' was a pleasant hour and a half that was occasionally ruined by it's poor music and narration.