Metacritic Film

Big Blue: Director's Cut

Starring Rosanna Arquette, Jean-Marc Barr, Jean Reno, Paul Shenar, Sergio Castellitto, Jean Bouise, Marc Duret, and Griffin Dunne

MPAA RATING: R for sexuality and language

Samuel Goldwyn Films
Romance
119 minutes | Color
USA / France / Italy
Released In Theaters July 14, 2000

Two young men who are deep-sea divers and long-time rivals come together again in competition with one having an advantage with his unusual trait (something to do with dolphins).

WRITTEN BY
Luc Besson (also story)
Robert Garland
Marilyn Goldin
Jacques Mayol

DIRECTED BY
Luc Besson

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

35 / 100

Critic Reviews

60 Los Angeles Times
Besson's restored Big Blue proves mystical, intriguing.
50 Portland Oregonian
A flawed fable but an intriguing one nonetheless. It's "Splash" gone existential. How many films can you name like that?
50 TV Guide
Deeply adolescent; its impact is visceral rather than intellectual.
50 Village Voice
The results are predictably lachrymose, especially with the reinstated "unhappy" ending from the original French version.
10 LA Weekly Paul Cullum
Let's call this "rethinking" The Abysmal.

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