Into the Blue (2005) - Critic Reviews

75

Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times

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.

63

Allison Benedikt Chicago Tribune

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.

63

Steven Rea Philadelphia Inquirer

It's "The Deep" reimagined as an Abercrombie catalog.

50

Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly

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.

50

John Patterson L.A. Weekly

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.

50

Connie Ogle Miami Herald

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.

40

Kirk Honeycutt The Hollywood Reporter

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

40

Manohla Dargis The New York Times

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.

30

Ann Hornaday Washington Post

May look good cavorting prettily on deck, but ultimately it deserves to walk the plank.

20

Nathan Rabin The A.V. Club

Laughably awful.