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Into the Blue
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Mixed or average reviews
Based on 28 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 17 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Action | Adventure | Crime | Suspense/Thriller
Written by: Matt Johnson
Directed by: John Stockwell
Release Date:
Theatrical: September 30, 2005
DVD: December 27, 2005
Running Time: 110 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: PG-13 for intense sequences of action violence, drug material, some sexual content and language
Starring Paul Walker, Jessica Alba, Scott Caan, Ashley Scott, Josh Brolin, and James Frain
What begins as a carefree treasure hunt turns into a deadly battle over an ancient shipwreck in the Bahamas.
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FILM: Blue Crush crazy/beautiful Turistas
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What The Critics Said
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Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Offers modest pleasures. It is not an essential film, but if you go to see it, it will not insult your intelligence, and there's genuine suspense toward the end.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Wesley Morris
Into the Blue is as much a mesmerizing aquatic expedition as it is a reasonably suspenseful action adventure.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jami Bernard
An enjoyable, gorgeously photographed aquatic adventure whose stars are blissfully bodacious.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen
Stockwell takes an especially leaden screenplay, floats the dull thing up from the depths of mediocrity, and makes it cinematically buoyant. Within limits, that is.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Allison Benedikt
Mad props to Peter Zuccarini, who headed the team of ocean-bound photographers and captured some remarkably vivid footage, and also to the actors, who spend plenty of time looking cool, calm and collected swimming with the predatory fishes.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
It's "The Deep" reimagined as an Abercrombie catalog.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
The cast is little more than the sum total of golden skin, firm flesh and blindingly white teeth, but in a film that demands them to be half-naked and soaking wet most of the time, looks trump technical acting skill every time.
Read Full Review >Premiere Peter Debruge
Let's be honest: Whether it's Jessica Alba or Paul Walker you're dying to see stripped down to her/his sexiest swimwear, there's only one reason anyone is interested in diving Into the Blue.
Read Full Review >Empire Ian Nathan
The Academy might not be troubled, but at times Into The Blue's wet Hollywood bodies really hit the spot.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Matt Singer
Granted, the cast has a certain rumpy charm, and setting four-fifths of the movie underwater keeps the pesky surfer-speak to a minimum, but the film is less about thrills than punishing the wicked.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Peter Hartlaub
The makers of Into the Blue know what the audience wants. And they deliver a little bit more.
Read Full Review >New York Post Lou Lumenick
There are far, far worse ways to spend two hours than watching Jessica Alba in a skimpy bikini - as well as other natural wonders photographed in the Bahamas - in the airheaded underwater adventure Into the Blue.
Read Full Review >USA Today Mike Clark
There will always be an audience for the escapist rewards this type of movie always dangles.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Connie Ogle
In the thriller Into the Blue, the Bahamian waters dazzle the eye. They are breathtaking and welcoming, possessing mysterious depths. The same cannot be said for the film's stars, Paul Walker and Jessica Alba, who are every bit as gorgeous as the scenery but not quite so profound.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
Walker is supposed to be lured by the buried treasure, but the actor, wearing Brad Pitt's bristle cut, is like Pitt with his sexy appetite sucked out.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly John Patterson
Into the Blue is a likable bimbo of a movie, all surface and -- despite breathtaking underwater photography and a marked resemblance to Peter Yates' "The Deep" -- zero depth.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold
An undistinguished treasure-hunting epic that rips off the 1977 movie, "The Deep," in virtually every frame. It's pretty to look at, but so low-voltage and instantly forgettable that it's hardly worth anyone's time.
Read Full Review >Variety Justin Chang
Not a thriller so much as an extremely violent swimsuit calendar, the lushly lensed but dramatically waterlogged Into the Blue is too infatuated with its scantily clad stars to make sense of all the drug dealers, boat looters and bloodthirsty sharks trying to hunt them down.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kevin Crust
This logic-challenged dive-bum thriller directed by John Stockwell, who did the equally silly surf movie "Blue Crush."
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt
When under water, the action-adventure Into the Blue has genuine thrills. Above water or on dry land, this is one dead fish.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Manohla Dargis
This undiluted nonsense is best suited to DVD-rental desperation. Still, aficionados of cheap cinematic thrills involving beautiful and stupid young people will be happy to learn that while the film fizzles far more than it sizzles, its director, John Stockwell, is a connoisseur of the female backside, which he displays to great and frequent advantage.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Ann Hornaday
May look good cavorting prettily on deck, but ultimately it deserves to walk the plank.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
It has all the elements one would expect from a "so bad it's good" feature: cheesy dialogue, a script that could have been written by two chimpanzees, acting that would make a high school drama teacher cringe, and lots of tight female bodies poured into tiny bikinis. Despite all of that, however, I found Into the Blue to be a real trial.
Read Full Review >Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman
Not even the repeated sight of Jessica Alba in a bikini, the camera caressing her like the eyes of a strip-club patron, can lift this leaden refuse off the ocean floor.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 5.4 (out of 10) based on 17 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Jeff M. gave it a7:
I have seen Heaven, and it is Jessica Alba's ass in a bathing suit. Besides that, it's a good popcorn flick, Scott Caan is reasonably funny and...there's sharks! Can't go wrong with sharks.
Craig M. gave it a10:
An absolutely fabulous film, great action, stunning scenes, romance, great theme music the list goes on. Its a film for all ! men, women, boys and girls it has a bit of everything ! and absolutley THE Best star in Jessica Alba ! Simply Gorgeous, (nearly as good as my wife !) and my wife also liked Paul Walker so a winner all round!
Mike J. gave it a5:
The only reason that made give this lousy movie a 5 was because of jessica alba. She's hot, and goes in the water a lot. So that's the only good thing. Other than that, this movie isn't even the least bit entertaining, crappy effects, pretty bad acting, and lackluster presentation all add up to the movie not to see this year.
Scott E. gave it a7:
Let's just say, it's better than expected. That being said, I wasn't expecting much.
Darkmage gave it a7:
Kept a bus of 50 high school students on their way to a ski resort quiet for the 2 hour drive, so there's definitely some "watchability" to it. At first I thought their attention was due to Jessica Alba in a bikini, but there's more to it than that. Let's face it, everyone likes a good treasure hunt movie. Many here have said the movie is just a mindless watch, but I found the conflict faced by the protagonists -- namely whether to use the funds of selling a discovery of cocaine to finance their underwater search for REAL treasure -- to be particulary interesting. Of course, they fall deeper and deeper (no pun intended) into trouble, which makes for a good moralistic argument as well.
Mark B. gave it a6:
Even though John Stockwell's dippy but not totally disposable underwater booty-and-booty epic wasn't actually released until October of 2005, it's really the purest mindless summer junk to come out that year. It's not trying to be postmodern (like The Dukes of Hazzard), or lazily imitative (like The Longest Yard) or trashily noisy (like Four Brothers) or slick but totally nonnutritious (like Mr. and Mrs. Smith). It really tries to tell a serviceable story involving two kinds of buried treasure (one legit, the other not so much); the underwater photographers really earned their paychecks and then some; the four leads fill their skimpy suits effectively, although Scott Caan and Ashley Scott are far better actors than topliners Paul Walker and Jessica Alba and therefore get to have all the moral ambiguities. In short, Into the Blue is to cinema what Garfield's nemesis Odie is to comic strip canines: really pretty dumb, but its energy and enthusiasm make up for a lot without totally letting you forget that it's really pretty dumb. The same goes for walker's performance; the Fast and the Furious star is a terrible actor, but his overcaffeinated dudespeak is something to behold. As for Alba (Sin City, Fantastic 4), she delivers the goods she was essentially signed on to deliver, which means that this DVD will be sold to lots of 13-year-old boys and lonely middle-aged men who want to...study her performance further. During the sections of the film in which the stars are required to put some clothes on for a change, Stockwell (who also did the Kate Bosworth surfing flick Blue Crush; the man gets more mileage out of the color blue than any entertainment figure since Bobby Vinton) keeps his viewers awake with some decent car chases, torture sequences and shark attacks, but ultimately spoils his movie by being just a bit TOO eager to please; few movies are destroyed in the last two minutes, but Stockwell tacks on a "have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too" coda that totally negates the central "which is more important, love or wealth?" question that actually if temporarily lent the movie some thematic weight. But then, I already DID say this movie was really pretty dumb in the first place, didn't I?
Brian G gave it a0:
Imponderably predictable. Simply listening to Paul Walker is annoying enough to make one throw up their innards. This was the first time I have ever fallen asleep in a movie theater since Lord of the Rings Fellowship.
