Into the Blue
Sony Pictures Releasing | Release Date: September 30, 2005 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
45
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Mixed or average reviews based on 28 Critic Reviews
Positive:
8
Mixed:
16
Negative:
4
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
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 full review
75
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
Into the Blue is as much a mesmerizing aquatic expedition as it is a reasonably suspenseful action adventure. Read full review
75
New York Daily NewsJami Bernard
An enjoyable, gorgeously photographed aquatic adventure whose stars are blissfully bodacious. Read full review
75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick Groen
Stockwell takes an especially leaden screenplay, floats the dull thing up from the depths of mediocrity, and makes it cinematically buoyant. Within limits, that is. Read full review
63
Chicago TribuneAllison Benedikt
Mad props to Peter Zuccarini, who headed the team of ocean-bound photographers and captured some remarkably vivid footage, and also to the actors, who spend plenty of time looking cool, calm and collected swimming with the predatory fishes. Read full review
63
Philadelphia InquirerSteven Rea
It's "The Deep" reimagined as an Abercrombie catalog. Read full review
63
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
The cast is little more than the sum total of golden skin, firm flesh and blindingly white teeth, but in a film that demands them to be half-naked and soaking wet most of the time, looks trump technical acting skill every time. Read full review
63
PremierePeter Debruge
Let's be honest: Whether it's Jessica Alba or Paul Walker you're dying to see stripped down to her/his sexiest swimwear, there's only one reason anyone is interested in diving Into the Blue. Read full review
60
EmpireIan Nathan
The Academy might not be troubled, but at times Into The Blue's wet Hollywood bodies really hit the spot. Read full review
50
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
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 full review
50
L.A. WeeklyJohn Patterson
Into the Blue is a likable bimbo of a movie, all surface and -- despite breathtaking underwater photography and a marked resemblance to Peter Yates' "The Deep" -- zero depth. Read full review
50
Miami HeraldConnie Ogle
In the thriller Into the Blue, the Bahamian waters dazzle the eye. They are breathtaking and welcoming, possessing mysterious depths. The same cannot be said for the film's stars, Paul Walker and Jessica Alba, who are every bit as gorgeous as the scenery but not quite so profound. Read full review
50
USA TodayMike Clark
There will always be an audience for the escapist rewards this type of movie always dangles. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleMarrit Ingman
Its characterizations are as bland as sand. Read full review
50
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
Accommodates some great water photography. Read full review
50
New York PostLou Lumenick
There are far, far worse ways to spend two hours than watching Jessica Alba in a skimpy bikini - as well as other natural wonders photographed in the Bahamas - in the airheaded underwater adventure Into the Blue. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChroniclePeter Hartlaub
The makers of Into the Blue know what the audience wants. And they deliver a little bit more. Read full review
50
Village VoiceMatt Singer
Granted, the cast has a certain rumpy charm, and setting four-fifths of the movie underwater keeps the pesky surfer-speak to a minimum, but the film is less about thrills than punishing the wicked. Read full review
42
Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam Arnold
An undistinguished treasure-hunting epic that rips off the 1977 movie, "The Deep," in virtually every frame. It's pretty to look at, but so low-voltage and instantly forgettable that it's hardly worth anyone's time. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt
When under water, the action-adventure Into the Blue has genuine thrills. Above water or on dry land, this is one dead fish. Read full review
40
The New York TimesManohla Dargis
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 full review
40
VarietyJustin Chang
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 full review
40
Los Angeles TimesKevin Crust
This logic-challenged dive-bum thriller directed by John Stockwell, who did the equally silly surf movie "Blue Crush." Read full review
40
Dallas ObserverRobert Wilonsky
Into the Blue drowns before it even surfaces. Read full review
30
Washington PostAnn Hornaday
May look good cavorting prettily on deck, but ultimately it deserves to walk the plank. Read full review
25
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
It has all the elements one would expect from a "so bad it's good" feature: cheesy dialogue, a script that could have been written by two chimpanzees, acting that would make a high school drama teacher cringe, and lots of tight female bodies poured into tiny bikinis. Despite all of that, however, I found Into the Blue to be a real trial. Read full review
25
Charlotte ObserverLawrence Toppman
Not even the repeated sight of Jessica Alba in a bikini, the camera caressing her like the eyes of a strip-club patron, can lift this leaden refuse off the ocean floor. Read full review
20
The A.V. ClubNathan Rabin
Laughably awful. Read full review
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