Overview: A brilliant billionaire named Carl Durant (Michael Beach) is experimenting on bull sharks, which soon rebel to cause havoc for a group of scientists.

Blu-ray Verdict: Simply put, and without a decent sequel subtitle to its name, Deep Blue Sea 2' is .......... actually better than I was prepared to give it credit for!

That said, and playing Devil's Advocate here, when you set sail into this "sequel", just be aware it was bought by the Syfy Channel! So if you'll allow yourself to expect the usual low budget effects and terrible acting, but with some cheesy fun moments, then you won't be too disappointed.

While it's hard to hate too much on a film in which the lead actress appears to be unable to zip up her wet suit all the way because of her heaving chest, 'Deep Blue Sea 2' is as much a (albeit late in the day) predictable rehash of the first film. So, we get the very same set-up and plot structure that's almost identical to Renny Harlin's 1999 brilliant hit.

Which, ok, is not such a bad thing, I'll give you that. Anyway, Danielle Savre plays shark expert Misty Calhoun (which sounds more like a stripper's name than a scientist's), who is hired by eccentric billionaire Carl Durant (Michael Beach, sporting an annoying right side goatee grey patch that has you wondering just why they didn't bleach the beach!) to join his team in the high-tech undersea lab where they are conducting experiments on five bull sharks.

As in Harlin's movie, the crew of the facility become trapped below the surface (due to the most stupidest and totally unacceptable and unreal "accident"), leaving them to try and find a way to the top before the complex floods or they are eaten; either by the artificially intelligent sharks or a school of equally ravenous offspring.

Presumably working on a much lower budget than the original, director Darin Scott must be given credit for achieving some well-executed CGI effects sequences. A couple of decent gory moments break out in the final third - the most graphic scenes being when we get a small rehash of the now infamous Samuel L. Jackson moment and when a character is hauled up into safety, minus his lower half; his entrails hanging from his torso!

Devoid of any real suspense or tension, a case of seen it, done it (better) is smothered all over this flick. But, it's definitely worth a watch if you enjoy movies about killer sharks! Anyway, as I say, it's not that bad and at just under 90 minutes, it actually flies by (which is always a good sign).

As for some of the special features, well, I personally love Gag Reel's and here we get a 3 minute plus one, chock full of weird dancing, an absolutely brilliant dinosaur impression, some pee-in-the-water moments, and even a moment where Danielle Savre scares herself more than her character actually deserved!

The 12 minute 'Returning to the Deep: Making Deep Blue Sea 2' (which quickly reveals that not only was it shot in South Africa, but two-thirds of the cast are home grown too) is also a gem to behold, as not only do we get to see that the characters that hit the water really do, as actors, hit the water, but the amount of cameras involved in getting these shots was totally insane!

Here the actors all reminisce about their memories of the original, one even recounting that on the first day of summer, every summer, she and her family have a large projector screen set up outside where the first movie they always watch is, yep, you guessed it, 'Deep Blue Sea.'

The infamous death of Samuel L. Jackson in the original, as Michael Beach correctly states here, elevated the piece because you never knew at any time throughout the movie what was going to actually happen. The same goes here for the sequel as it also manages to hit those points that the people loved about the first movie; and yet still manage to give them something original. This is a Widescreen Presentation (1.78:1) enhanced for 16x9 TVs and comes with the Special Features of:

Returning to the Deep: Making Deep Blue Sea 2
Deep Blue Sea 2: Death by Shark
Gag Reel
Deleted Scenes