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Into The Blue [2005]
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Stunning tropical scenery and gorgeous athletic movie stars may not make a movie great, but they sure don't hurt. Jared (Paul Walker, The Fast and the Furious) dreams of finding sunken treasure and making millions, but his girlfriend Sam (Jessica Alba, Fantastic Four, Sin City) is content with their poor but idyllic life in the Bahamas. Still, when they find artefacts from a 19th century pirate ship, she gets caught up in the excitement--until they also find a crashed plane full of smuggled cocaine. Naturally, someone's going to want that cocaine back... From there, Into the Blue is a surprisingly well-plotted action film, unpredictable in its specifics if familiar in its broader outlines. Even more pleasant, the action itself stays plausible and genuinely engaging throughout. Jared seems able to hold his breath for a preternaturally long time, but aside from that the film is meticulous about the dangers and threats the characters face and is all the stronger for it. Add to this its unabashed ogling of Alba and Walker (both of whom are astonishing physical specimens) and you have a solid romp. Also featuring Scott Caan (Ocean's Eleven), Tyson Beckford (Biker Boyz), and Josh Brolin (Flirting With Disaster) as a slimy rival treasure hunter. --Bret Fetzer
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Amazon.co.uk review
A satisfying couple of hours
Review date: 2008-07-20 Rating: 8 out of 10
Underwater adventure thriller starring Jessica Alba and Paul Walker as divers who discover a crashed plane filled with a lot of cocaine and also a sunken ship filled with treasure whilst diving in the Bahamas. The treasure on the sunken ship is worth millions but Alba, Walker and their lawyer friend Scott Caan cannot afford the $30,000 dollars needed to hire the salvage gear needed to retrieve the treasure from the sunken ship. Temptation comes their way when they realise that the cocaine on the crashed plane will be more than enough to pay for the salvage gear they need but this an extremely risky idea as drug trafficking in the Bahamas carries a minimum sentence of five years in prison. But the decision as to whether to try to sell the cocaine or not is taken out of their hands when the drug dealers whom the plane belonged to get wind of the fact that their plane and its drugs cargo has been discovered and threaten to kill Walker, Alba and Caan if they do not retrieve the cocaine from the crashed plane for them. I found this to be a good action film, set in the beautiful locale of the Bahamas with especially notable underwater scenes. Jessica Alba and Paul Walker make decent and good looking protagonists, Scott Caan provides useful support as their materialistic lawyer friend and the villains are very nasty pieces of work .The last 15 minutes or so - set underwater and aboard a boat - make a wonderful climax and will have you on the edge of your seat. A satisfying couple of hours that takes full advantage of the paradise locale of the Bahamas in which it is set.
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a very average film but it has some nice photography of the sea
Review date: 2008-05-14 Rating: 4 out of 10
There is some good and colourful photography of the sea and plenty of attractive men and women in bikinis and swimming trunks in this film but the dialogue is bland,the story slow and the underwater fight scenes lack credibility and sometimes you can't even tell who is fighting who.If you want to see a far superior film about the sea, pirates and sunken treasure then watch Pirates of The Caribbean with Johnny Depp and Keira Knightley.
Feeble, acquatic adventure
Review date: 2007-12-26 Rating: 4 out of 10
This action movie is pleasing in that some of the oceanic scenery is visually appealing to look at. Furthermore, Jessica Alba helps enhance the aesthetics, swimming around in that skimpy outfit with all those curves on display. Early on you get a sense that the director is clutching at straws with this film as he seems to lend leverage to the fact that Alba's radiant looks and hot body are a major selling point of the movie itself. The reason why I mention this is because I lost count of the number of Alba close-ups and camera angles guaranteed to make the most of her curves. Beyond Jessica this movie offer precious little to the viewer.
The storyline isn't particularly engaging and the movie drags on as far as the eye can see. The first half of the movie consists of the two couples jumping on top of each other a lot,kissing a lot,alcohol, crude jokes and a misplaced belief that treasure hunting will guarantee untold riches; fodder for the teen market perhaps but juvenile and irritating for others. In the midst of all of this they set out to try and locate the wreck of the Zepher. They locate that aswell, as a plane crammed with cocaine.
The second half of Into the Blue sees the couples in more peril as they fight off drug dealers and a rival treasure hunting outfit. One of the four even shares an intimate dinner date with a Tiger shark! The sharks return later on in the film for further helpings. Despite, the increase in pace I still found the movie to be boring. Into the Blue is disjointed,lacking in substance and the acting is average aswell.
A far better waterbased adventure is Deep Blue Sea, which has a good mix of action,humour and a stronger cast. My advice would be to step right out of the blue as opposed to in it;as this is a failed attempt to glamorise treasure hunting.
OH JESSICA...
Review date: 2007-11-19 Rating: 10 out of 10
In this review I could just say, "Jessica Alba in a bikini" and it would get at least 4 stars but the great thing about this film is the fact that it has just about everything, fights, chases, romance and sex appeal, the film has it all. When I first saw this film I couldn't stop watching it. It's a film you don't have to be in a certain mood for. The actors gel nicely, the plot thickens throughout with a few twists along the way. If you are a teenage boy like me you WILL enjoy this. It is a great film!
Loo Blue
Review date: 2006-09-16 Rating: 2 out of 10
Despite the undeniably good underwater shots, and the constant pouting of the pretty, pert-buttocked Alba, this film left me cold. In the end I was cheering for the sharks, hoping that they'd eat the entire cast!
Jared and Sam (Walker and Alba) grated on me with all their 'loved-up' mushiness. Their friends, Bryce and Amanda (Caan and Scott), were even more irritating and unbelievably stupid to boot. Somehow, these four amigos 'find' an 18th century pirate ship and proceed to bring stuff up any old how. And why not? Despite being under water for years, the treasure is just lying there on the sea bed in perfect condition - not a barnacle in sight. Not only that, but they also find a crashed plane, stuffed to the rafters with bad cheese (drugs).
Moral debate begins: they want to lay claim to the wreck, but they can only do this by finding evidence of the ship's identity. If they report the downed plane before knowing the name of the ship, they lose their claim on the wreck. The four treasure hunters eventually agree to keep things quiet. However, you just KNOW that Bryce and Amanda are going to balls things up big style - enter the big bad drug dealers on shiny boats brandishing huge guns and you have the rest of the movie. Silly and predictable stuff.
I could only marvel at the amazing lung capacities of Jared and co. How long can you hold your breath at a depth of 150 feet without exploding, I wonder? I watched until the end hoping that someone would do just that, but I was to be disappointed. Still, at least a shark killed one of them. No - I'm not going to spoil it by telling you. Rent the film and find out. Notice I said 'rent' and not 'buy', btw.
Disposable entertainment at its worst.
Product Details/Specifications
Actor(s):
Chris Taloa
Nicola Paciotta
Scott Caan
Jessica Alba
Paul Walker
Creators:
Paul Walker (Primary Contributor)
Nicola Paciotta (Primary Contributor)
Director(s):
Recording label: MGM Entertainment
Manufacturer: MGM Entertainment
EAN: 5035822170339
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 1
Format: Anamorphic, PAL,
Release date: 2006-02-27
Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
Audience rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Region code: 2
Running time: 106 minutes
Theatrical release date: 2005
Language: Dutch (Subtitled)
Language: English (Subtitled)
Language: Hindi (Subtitled)
Language: English (Original Language)