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Renny Harlin (born Renny Lauri Mauritz Harjola in Riihimäki, Finland in March of 1959) is one of those filmmakers who somehow managed to be huge, influential, wildly successful, catastrophically unsuccessful, critically dismissed, financially celebrated, totally misunderstood, and relentlessly productive all at the same time. And I mean that as the highest possible compliment. This is a guy who has worked in Hollywood, Europe, Finland, Bulgaria, and China, who has directed g

Let me just start by saying this—I am not a strong swimmer. At all. In fact, I swim like a rock. So when it comes to movies about being caught underwater, being stranded in the middle of the ocean, or dealing with whatever the hell is lurking below the surface, I get seriously freaked out. There’s something inherently terrifying about being submerged, about the unknown lurking just beneath you, about the idea that no matter how much you fight, the water always wins. That’s wh