...lurking underneath the sleek and fashionable veneer is a not half-bad little morality play.
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09/29/05
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
It is an extraordinary cinematic achievement to take a story combining pirate treasure, drug runners, killer sharks, an airplane crash, car chases and Jessica Alba in a bikini, and turn it into an exercise in tedium.
09/29/05
Ultimately, Into the Blue isn't nearly as bad as it looks.
09/29/05
A soggy adventure best suited to DVD-rental desperation.
09/29/05
Top CriticIt's pretty to look at, but so low-voltage and instantly forgettable that it's hardly worth anyone's time.
09/29/05
The film poses ethical dilemmas, but leaves the viewer annoyed when characters continually make foolish decisions.
09/29/05
Into the Blue may look good cavorting prettily on deck, but ultimately it deserves to walk the plank.
09/29/05
a water-logged melodrama... If the treasure hunt fails, will anyone care, as long as Walker and Alba sport sexy swimwear?
09/29/05
Below water, these cretins have to keep their yaps shut, and you can concentrate on the film’s true features: Some beautiful photography and the real treasure -- Alba’s booty.
09/29/05
It's eye candy with snorkels and fins.
09/29/05
Offers the most lush, picturesque underwater photography in recent cinematic memory. For a while, that's actually enough, until its aimless wandering gets the best of it.
09/29/05
Look, scuba diving is pretty slow, so the fact that they made a fast paced, exciting movie out of it is good.
09/29/05
My theory is that Jared is Aquaman, and he's probing the ocean with his mental powers, looking for intelligent life. Which is why he never finds the screenwriter down there.
09/29/05
Like plastic, extruded action figures involved in a sadistic child's bathtub-masturbation fantasies.
09/29/05
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.
09/29/05
A bikini-clad morality tale, one so simplistic and preposterous that even the sharks know they should munch only on the villains.
09/29/05
Some narrative economy could have shaved 20 minutes off the film’s slackly paced two hours and brought us sooner to its memorably frenetic underwater climax -- a payoff that’s finally too little, too late to save the movie.
09/29/05
It's almost campy enough to be worthy. Except it's not.
09/29/05
The movie is written, acted and directed as a story, not as an exercise in mindless kinetic energy.
09/29/05
Top CriticPrimarily, Into the Blue displays plenty of priceless booty (and the treasure is impressive, too...).
09/29/05
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