It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

Fresh and Exciting

A Masterpiece!

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

I really liked this, way better than I expected to, with a solid story, fantastic scenery and amazing (just stunning) underwater camera work. Sure its basically just a virtual vacation action movie with gratuitous ass shots, like excessive, close up (very sexy) ass shots but whatever, everybody looks good and the underwater stunts and intriguing story made up for it. Paul Walker (sigh) plays a diver/treasure hunter who along with his girlfriend (uber sexy Jessica Alba) find themselves battling sharks and ruthless criminals after discovering a historic ship wreck and a sunken cargo plane loaded with cocaine. I actually got quite wrapped up in the story, especially since I used to live in the Caribbean and dated a dive instructor. The island life is well portrayed and while sadly my boyfriend was no Paul Walker (who is) Paul does a good job here.Everybody looked so relaxed underwater considering the extreme stunts they had to get through. Scott Caan is essentially his Hawaii-Five-0 "Danno" character but I enjoyed the moral dilemma he and his girlfriend created. Great shark attack and just all-round sexy thriller of a movie I'll probably watch again. 9/11/14

Jared (Paul Walker) and Sam (Jessica Alba) are a young couple trying to scrap up the money to hunt for treasures. Their friend Bryce (Scott Caan) arrives in Bahama with his new girl Amanda (Ashley Scott). The foursome does some diving and find some minor sunken treason. Then they come across a down plane loaded with cocaine. Jared and Sam don't want the drugs but Bryce and Amanda have other ideas. They decide to go back to map out and lay claim to the wreck suspected to be the legendary Zephyr. Only afterwards do they plan to report the drugs to the police. Bates (Josh Brolin) runs a competing professional salvage operation. He and his men are watching. Jared needs real money to hunt for the wreck. Bryce sees a way with the drugs in the downed plane.This starts out fine. It's a lot sun and a lot of beautiful bodies. About halfway through the movie, the escapist fun is all gone. It tries to turn into some tough gritty drug land thriller. It's too hard of a turn and throws me off the trail completely. The characters aren't likable enough to have rooting interest for. Scott Caan does such a good job as a douche that he infects the rest of the group. I didn't find any love for these characters and the fun is all drained out in the second half.

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.

The film's first half isn't bad, except for the prologue, which isn't needed. A youthful, photogenic guy with big dreams, accompanied by his photogenic girlfriend, uses a skimpy boat to look for sunken treasure beneath the clear, blue waters off the Bahamas.The visuals are dazzling, with bright, vivid colors, and some terrific underwater photography that captures images of real sharks and real fish, not fake CGI effects. The plot stays slow, lazy, and realistic. The script then brings in an additional couple, turning the story into a semi-ensemble character setup. As the plot develops, our two photogenic couples find some interesting stuff beneath the waves, which revs up the tension and conflict, and presents characters with moral dilemmas.But the second half deteriorates into your typical Hollywood assembly-line action flick, with a whole series of super fast edit sequences and silly, totally unrealistic, out-of-control plot points spurred on by peripheral characters that detract enormously from the two couples. Frenetic action, accompanied by irritatingly frenetic background music, ruins the second half, and makes a mockery of the story's premise.Acting is okay, I guess, given that this is a highly physical film wherein physical attractiveness and agility probably mean more than subtle theatrical skills. If there's a weakness here it's Scott Caan, whose cocky Bryce comes across as a total jerk, with nary a redeeming quality."Into The Blue" is very easy to judge. It contains wonderful cinematography, especially the underwater segments. And the strong visuals get support from impressive sound effects. But the story, though it begins well, collapses in the second half. The script is to blame. And yet I can't help but think that the real villain here is some Hollywood producer, typically underestimating the intelligence of viewers, who thinks that the story doesn't really matter if there's enough eye candy and explosive, mind-blowing action.