So much average

Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

You can just imagine the discussions among the studio executives."Let's make a film with Jessica Alba in a bikini!" "Great idea! What's the plot angle?" "Plot? With Jess in a bikini do we need a plot? Make her character a swimwear model or something!" "Naah, too obvious. What about pirates of the Caribbean, sunken treasure, that sort of thing? Make Jess a scuba diver. In a bikini, of course".And so we end up with a sort of unacknowledged remake of "The Deep" from the seventies. Like the earlier film, it is about treasure hunters diving for sunken treasure and tangling with drug-dealing gangsters, and like that film it relies heavily upon the charms of its scantily-clad leading lady, Alba here and Jacqueline Bissett in "The Deep". (Indeed, "The Deep" itself can be seen as an unacknowledged remake of "Underwater" from the fifties, a film whose main attraction was the sight of a scantily-clad Jane Russell). "Into the Blue", however, does offer a bonus to its target young male audience; we have two couples, not just one, diving for the treasure, so we get to see two pretty girls in bikinis. (Ashley Scott is the other).There is a problem with remakes, acknowledged or unacknowledged. Or rather, there are two problems. If you try to remake a good film, the critics will gleefully claim that your effort is nowhere near as good as the original. And if you try to remake a bad one, they will (equally gleefully) accuse you of desperately trying to succeed with a formula which failed last time. Well, "The Deep" was (in my view at least) a pretty bad film, and "Into the View" does not improve on it. Indeed, it is probably even worse.The main flaws of "The Deep" were a clichéd plot, some manic over-acting from Robert Shaw and some rather dull photography. The main flaws of "Into the Blue" are firstly a plot which is so tortured as to come, at times, close to well-nigh incomprehensible. Secondly, the dialogue is often difficult to hear clearly. I spent the whole of the running-time, for example, thinking that Paul Walker's character was called "Gerry"; it wasn't until I saw the closing credits that I realised this was actually supposed to be "Jared". Mishearing a character's name would not in itself have spoilt the film for me, but this was merely one symptom of a wider problem, and frequently mishearing crucial lines of dialogue certainly did spoil it.And thirdly there is the acting. Alba put me in mind of Louis B. Mayer's famous dictum about Esther Williams- "Wet she's a star, dry she ain't". She earned a Razzie nomination for Worst Actress. None of her co-stars were so nominated, although if Mayer had seen their performances here he might have opined that "wet they ain't stars, and dry they ain't either". And that includes that other big name, Walker, for once in his career acting in a film without any fast cars in it.Alba and Walker are merely wooden, but Scott Caan as Bryce, the other boy in the foursome, is something worse than wooden. He makes Bryce so unsympathetic (admittedly, with a lot of help from the scriptwriters) that we end up wondering just when he is going to get his well-deserved come-uppance along with the rest of the villains. Incredibly, however, we are supposed to accept Bryce as one of the good guys, even though he can see no moral objection to collaborating with a vicious gang of drug smugglers and even though he shows very little emotion when his girlfriend is killed by a shark. (He would be a lot more upset about losing the gold than he is about losing his girl). Bryce is supposed to be a hot-shot New York lawyer; the New York Bar Association should sue the film-makers for implying that they would ever permit such an unprincipled jerk to practice law.About the most one can say for the film is that the underwater sequences are generally attractive and well done. And, of course, Jessica Alba looks gorgeous. But, I'm afraid, sometimes bikinis are just not enough to turn a badly written, badly directed and badly acted film into a good one. 3/10

Greed turns an idyllic vacation into a nightmare in this movie entitled,Into the Blue.It is underwater action film starring Paul Walker and Jessica Alba together with Scott Caan,Ashley Scott,Josh Brolin,James Frain and Tyson Beckford. It was directed by John Stockwell. Jared Cole makes his living salvaging wreckage from ships off the coast of the Bahamas. He shares a rattle-trap trailer home with his girlfriend, Samantha "Sam" Nicholson, a shark expert who works at a nearby resort. While both are happy with their lives in the islands, Jared dreams of finding a major score and living the high life. One day, Jared and Sam are paid a visit by Bryce Dunn, a childhood friend of Sam's who is now doing very well as a lawyer. Bryce and his girlfriend, Amanda, have come to the Bahamas for a few days of diving and fun, and Sam and Jared show them the waters while making use of his yacht. While diving with Sam, Bryce, and Amanda, Jared discovers the wreckage of a plane used to smuggle drugs, and thinks he may have found the big score he's always dreamed of. While Sam persuades Jared that the cargo is too risky to move, Bryce and Amanda think there's a fast buck to be made, and team up with Primo, a local underground entrepreneur, to fence the contents of the plane. However, Bryce and Amanda have underestimated just how dangerous Primo and his henchmen can be, and now Sam and Jared must come to their rescue.This film is fun to watch because it's, well, fun to watch particularly when its stars dive into the blue in their various skimpy bathing suits but it's not much of movie. Stunning tropical scenery and gorgeous athletic movie stars may not make a movie great, but they sure don't hurt.There's anything wrong with an escapist adventure, but if you're rolling your eyes in disbelief at the plot and the dialogue, it makes it hard to enjoy the scenery.

This film was basically crap in my view. The only thing all that memorable about it is Jessica Alba's ass. I guess for the women it would be Paul Walker's abs. I don't know. I'm just guessing. Ask a woman for crying out loud. I watched this film with one of my best friends. His comment at the end of the film was, "They should have just called it 'into the poop', (But he didn't exactly say "poop" if ya catch my drift.)." As I said, it's basically crap, but crap that looks pretty good. If you can picture such a thing, I'm not sure, but try anyway.My suggestion is to skip this film, unless you just want some senseless eye candy.

I thought this was an excellent pop movie. Its fun, watchable and yes, Jessica Alba looks totally hawt.To do justice to this film, you should watch the "Making of" documentary which shows the absolutely beautiful Jessica skin diving with massive sharks - wearing only that stunning bikini, whilst the dive camera crew are wearing chain mail suits for protection. That image of her magnificent body outstretched with her arm reaching out for a shark is one of the most memorable cinematic images ever. I swear I could spend an entire week on a liveonboard watching this on repeat.There is probably no chance of her doing this sort of dangerous stunts like this again, thanks to her fame. The insurance premium could sink a battleship.The plot is about as believable as Brokeback Mountain - but it doesn't claim any pretensions - it is what it is. A fun movie, highly watchable and worth buying on Blue Ray thanks to the pretty Miss Alba's taunt tight bodacious body. She should have won an Academy Award for her curves.