Writer Matt Johnson lays on more villains and more chases and more twists, but instead of giving the film more depth, it just turns it increasingly sillier and sillier until it drowns in its own contrivances.
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09/30/05
Into the Blue (2005)
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Reviews Counted:121
Fresh:26
Rotten:95
Average Rating:4/10
Consensus: Even the endless shots of bronzed beach babes and buffed dudes can't keep this soggy scuba flick's plot from drowning.
Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Synopsis: Here's a cool action film that goes down smooth as summer vacation, full of gorgeous turquoise-colored underwater scenery, bronzed bodies, and a nice level of free diving adrenaline. Paul Walker... [More]
Starring: Paul Walker, Jessica Alba, Scott Caan, Ashley Scott
Director: John Stockwell
Reviews for Into the Blue
Never makes it to so bad it's good, stalling instead at so-bad it's bad.
09/30/05
This one tells a hoary tale of Caribbean salvage operators dedicated to hunting sunken treasure on the ocean floor. But the true salvager is the guy behind the camera. John Stockwell has already flashed his talent for rescuing B-material.
09/30/05
In its favor, the treasure-hunt adventure has some modestly good underwater scenes, complete with interesting fish. Still, a trip to the aquarium would probably be livelier.
09/30/05
This is about as standard a collection of thriller clichés as has ever been committed to film. Still, the settings are amazing (above and below the ocean), while Paul Walker and Jessica Alba look better in bathing suits than ought to be allowed.
09/30/05
The most improbable of movies, a comic thriller set in the Bahamas in which Walker and Alba bare enough flesh to seduce us into thinking they've bared pieces of their souls.
09/30/05
When a movie features Alba in a bikini for a good chunk of its running time and still can't hold a guy's interest, you know it has serious problems.
09/30/05
The contrived plot somehow combines true love, drug smuggling, pirate treasure, and sharks into a paint-by-numbers exercise.
09/30/05
Horny teen boys will totally dig it, everyone else will quickly realize this is simply fool's gold.
09/30/05
Top CriticAlba is bad, but her co-stars are worse. Stockwell can't get a decent performance out of any of them. Even the sharks seem to be hamming it up.
09/30/05
When under water, the action-adventure Into the Blue has genuine thrills. Above water or on dry land, this is one dead fish.
09/30/05
Top CriticLike real-life treasure hunting, there are far worse pursuits than Into the Blue.
09/30/05
This new movie's got hot bods to spare; it's just too bad they belong to some of the most annoying characters I've seen in the movies all year.
09/30/05
Sometimes when a movie gets boring, I start to wish that a shark would eat someone, just for some diversion. This marks the first time that wish has ever come true.
09/29/05
Scuba-diving thriller with drugs, treasure and bikini-clad flesh isn't especially deep or gripping, even with eye candy aplenty.
09/29/05
A film so boring, overextended and endlessly moronic that my high school called to downgrade my GPA for having sat through it.
09/29/05
Laughable in a lumbering and boring way.
09/29/05
We should just throw pretense to the wind and call this one Jessica Alba In A Bikini. They're certainly not paying for her acting skills.
09/29/05
Into the Blue is such a smorgasbord of action, clichés, and bad acting, that it will make your head spin in ways John Stockwell wasn’t counting on.
09/29/05
Watch as millions of dollars are hurled at us in the form of bad special effects and an impenetrable labyrinth of a story that I cannot imagine a single soul caring about.
09/29/05
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