Aaron Eckhart Almost Single-Handedly Keeps Deep Water From Drowning

Deep Blue Sea's director wades back into shark-infested seas with Deep Water

Director Renny Harlin has a new shark-attack movie out called Deep Water. It’s only fair that he would get another shot at this subgenre as it seemingly resurges in popularity; Harlin made a particularly good one 27 years ago with Deep Blue Sea. But today’s shark movies tend to be more contained, like Netflix’s recent Thrash, the Blake Lively-starring The Shallows, or the serial-killer riff Dangerous Animals. Deep Water is a more ambitious produ…

Aaron Eckhart almost single-handedly keeps Deep Water from drowning

Whatever happened to Renny Harlin, director of beloved studio-produced action programmers like Cliffhanger and Deep Blue Sea? Harlin’s career has since taken some unexpected turns, including the recent Strangers prequel trilogy as well as the dopey but sturdy 2023 John Wick-sploitation potboiler The Bricklayer, starring Aaron Eckhart as a CIA-agent-turned-construction-worker. Now, Eckhart and Harlin reteam for the quaint, but solid airplane cras…

Deep Water — Renny Harlin [Review]

Although cinema is at its best when it gleefully breaks the rules, some operating procedures need to be in place when you embark upon an airplane-crash disaster movie — or a schlocky shark slasher for that matter. When up in the air and suddenly urged to fasten your seatbelt, the 747 should be piloted by [...] The post Deep Water — Renny Harlin [Review] appeared first on In Review Online.

‘Deep Water’ Review: 2026’s Second Shark Survival Movie Needs a Stronger Bite

Deep Water Review If I had a nickel for a survival movie with sharks released this year, I’d have two nickels. It isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice given Thrash’s recent release. Oftentimes, shark survival films can end up going one of two (or three) ways. They can either be as compelling and dramatic as Steven Spielberg’s Jaws or they can go wild and crazy like those Sharknado movies. Of course, there’s a line that balances the…

Renny Harlin and Gene Simmons Wade Into ‘Deep Water’ Challenges and Disaster Thrills

If you’re a fan of sharksploitation films, there’s a good chance you’re obsessed with Renny Harlin’s Deep Blue Sea. Set on a scientific research vessel located in the remote Pacific Ocean, the 1999 action horror hybrid sees a trio of genetically modified sharks wage war on their human captors in a hellish attempt to escape their tanks and rule the high seas as super-intelligent apex predators. Merging the glitzy fun of ’90s slashers with tried-a…

Movie Review – Deep Water (2026)

Read the original post on Flickering Myth here: Movie Review – Deep Water (2026) Deep Water, 2026. Directed by Renny Harlin. Starring Aaron Eckhart, Molly Belle Wright, Kelly Gale, Ben Kingsley, Angus Sampson, Rosie Zhao, Richard Crouchley, Rob Kipa-Williams, Mark Hadlow, Lakota Johnson, Madeleine West, Ryan Bown, Rarmian Newton, Lucy Barrett, Michael Cardelle, John De Luca, Sonia Dorado, Kate Fitzpatrick, Jacqueline Lee Geurts, Li Wenhan, and T…