Four divers cross paths with drug smugglers in the Bahamas.Four divers cross paths with drug smugglers in the Bahamas.Four divers cross paths with drug smugglers in the Bahamas.
- Awards
- 1 win & 2 nominations
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- TriviaPaul Walker's Chesapeake Bay Retriever Boone played his character's dog in the film.
- GoofsWhen Amanda becomes entangled in the underwater plane, you can see a diver behind her trying to hide from the camera.
- Quotes
Bryce: Get out of the water. There are sharks everywhere, look.
Jared: Give me my mask and my fins real quick.
Bryce: You - No, you don't need a mask. There's a shark. I swear to God. He's big. He' looks like Jaws. Get out.
Jared: Yeah, I know, but I lost my watch.
Bryce: You lost - ? You need an arm to wear a watch. Would you get out of the water, stupid? Please?
Jared: Sam gave me this watch for my birthday.
Bryce: I don't care! Sam, get...
[Sam tosses the mask and fins to Jared]
Bryce: What are you doing?
Sam: He's fine. They're just curious.
Bryce: Oh, curious as to what? As to what? What his ass tastes like?
- Alternate versionsTo avoid controversy, Jessica Alba's bikini was digitally extended to cover her buttocks in the American version. The European version is unaltered.
- SoundtracksGood Old Days
Written and Performed by Ziggy Marley
Courtesy of RCA Victor
Under License from BMG Film & Television Music
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.
- Lechuguilla
- Sep 20, 2010
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Box office
- Budget
- $50,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $18,801,234
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $7,057,854
- Oct 2, 2005
- Gross worldwide
- $46,117,696
- Runtime1 hour 50 minutes
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- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1