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5.3 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 21 Ratings

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  1. Positive: 11 out of 21
  2. Negative: 6 out of 21

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  1. Darkmage
    Jan 20, 2006
    7
    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. Expand
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  2. CraigM.
    Apr 5, 2006
    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!
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  3. SusanM.
    Oct 4, 2005
    5
    Bland and forgettable.
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  4. TylerD.
    Sep 30, 2005
    1
    Strictly for the crowd that wants to ogle Alba. Probably will open to around 12 mil. Hey, I loved Bisset in The Deep so how can I condem the morons who go to this film. Alba is hot and you should jack off to her, but still; you should be ashamed at what you do. This film is idiocy and Scott Caan is the only redemption in this crap.
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  5. MarkB.
    Jan 9, 2006
    6
    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? Expand
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  6. JeffM.
    Aug 10, 2006
    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.
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  7. scotts.
    Oct 13, 2005
    6
    It's not horrible and it's not great. About half the movie is shot underwater and if you are a diver or like to snorkel, it's worth a matinee.
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  8. groundfisher
    Oct 29, 2005
    6
    The trailer didn't do this movie justice. The movie is well-paced and the narrative, not as simplistic as the trailer led me to expect, is coherent and somewhat interesting. The performances from the actors are mixed, however, and the gratuitous, lingering shots of the sexy bodies on display are distracting in a bad way! Some of the underwater scenes are well-shot. The central theme of a man's integrity and the value of love and of wealth is adequately handled until the end, when the movie really lets itself down. There are some aspects of the plot which are unlikely but not enough to spoil it. The movie is not without charm and I was happy to sit through it. I wouldn't watch it again, however. Expand
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  9. ScottE.
    Feb 7, 2006
    7
    Let's just say, it's better than expected. That being said, I wasn't expecting much.
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  10. MikeJ.
    Mar 12, 2006
    5
    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.
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  11. BrianG
    Nov 2, 2005
    0
    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.
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  12. Mar 30, 2012
    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.
Metascore

Mixed or average reviews - based on 28 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 28
  2. Negative: 4 out of 28
  1. 20
    Laughably awful.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.