Renny Harlin, director of Deep Blue Sea, attempts a comeback with a shark movie after 20 years

‌If you have any interest in movies, you've probably heard a lot about Renny Harlin lol. He is the most successful Hollywood director from Finland.

Die Hard 2

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Things started getting complicated from here lol. Cutthroat Island... Before the massive success of Titanic, Waterworld and Cutthroat Island were the two giants that served as examples of the "rule" that maritime movies fail. Still, looking back, they're quite fun lol. I think the Pirates of the Caribbean series wouldn't have happened without this movie.


Honestly, I wonder why this movie failed... It's actually quite watchable lol. Maybe because there were many people like me, it was played constantly on the secondary video market and home TV, so I heard it surpassed the break-even point long ago.

Hate Me If You Want... He also directed Long Kiss Goodnight, a movie about a hidden-power female warrior, with his wife Gina, but that didn't get a good response either, and the two divorced.

After a rough patch with movies filmed with his wife, he released Deep Blue Sea in '99, which is now mentioned as an all-time great shark movie. He seemed to make a brief comeback, but... he spent time moving between small-scale films and even directed some movies in China lol.

Just when I thought he was forgotten, he is making a comeback with a movie that seems to be a mix of his specialties: Die Hard 2 + Deep Blue Sea.

The cast is a bit ambiguous in terms of current popularity, but he's cast actors who were once quite big... In many ways, it feels like a "second chance" attempt lol.







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