Metascore
45 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 28 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 28
  2. Negative: 4 out of 28
  1. 75
    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.
  2. An enjoyable, gorgeously photographed aquatic adventure whose stars are blissfully bodacious.
  3. 75
    Into the Blue is as much a mesmerizing aquatic expedition as it is a reasonably suspenseful action adventure.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. It's "The Deep" reimagined as an Abercrombie catalog.
  7. 63
    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.
  8. Reviewed by: Peter Debruge
    63
    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.
  9. Reviewed by: Ian Nathan
    60
    The Academy might not be troubled, but at times Into The Blue's wet Hollywood bodies really hit the spot.
  10. 50
    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.
  11. 50
    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.
  12. The makers of Into the Blue know what the audience wants. And they deliver a little bit more.
  13. Reviewed by: Mike Clark
    50
    There will always be an audience for the escapist rewards this type of movie always dangles.
  14. Its characterizations are as bland as sand.
  15. 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.
  16. 50
    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.
  17. Reviewed by: Matt Singer
    50
    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.
  18. 50
    Accommodates some great water photography.
  19. 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.
  20. When under water, the action-adventure Into the Blue has genuine thrills. Above water or on dry land, this is one dead fish.
  21. Into the Blue drowns before it even surfaces.
  22. 40
    This logic-challenged dive-bum thriller directed by John Stockwell, who did the equally silly surf movie "Blue Crush."
  23. 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.
  24. Reviewed by: Justin Chang
    40
    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.
  25. 30
    May look good cavorting prettily on deck, but ultimately it deserves to walk the plank.
  26. 25
    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.
  27. 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.
User Score

Mixed or average reviews- based on 21 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 12
  2. Negative: 3 out of 12
  1. Horrible. I gave up after 20 minutes. It is so annoying that one would think that it has to get better but it doesn't. What a waste of talent and resources. Full Review »
  2. JeffM.
    7
    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. Full Review »
  3. CraigM.
    10
    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! Full Review »