Into the Blue (2005) Critic Reviews

Offers modest pleasures. It is not an essential film, but if you go to see it, it will not insult your intelligence, and there's genuine suspense toward the end.Read the full review

Into the Blue is as much a mesmerizing aquatic expedition as it is a reasonably suspenseful action adventure.Read the full review

There will always be an audience for the escapist rewards this type of movie always dangles.Read the full review

The makers of Into the Blue know what the audience wants. And they deliver a little bit more.Read the full review

Walker is supposed to be lured by the buried treasure, but the actor, wearing Brad Pitt's bristle cut, is like Pitt with his sexy appetite sucked out.Read the full review

This logic-challenged dive-bum thriller directed by John Stockwell, who did the equally silly surf movie "Blue Crush."Read the full review

Not a thriller so much as an extremely violent swimsuit calendar, the lushly lensed but dramatically waterlogged Into the Blue is too infatuated with its scantily clad stars to make sense of all the drug dealers, boat looters and bloodthirsty sharks trying to hunt them down.Read the full review

When under water, the action-adventure Into the Blue has genuine thrills. Above water or on dry land, this is one dead fish.Read the full review

This undiluted nonsense is best suited to DVD-rental desperation. Still, aficionados of cheap cinematic thrills involving beautiful and stupid young people will be happy to learn that while the film fizzles far more than it sizzles, its director, John Stockwell, is a connoisseur of the female backside, which he displays to great and frequent advantage.Read the full review