Into the Blue (2005)

Really not a big fan of these type of movies, yet from time to time I do watch these action drama types that involve criminals and good against bad with plot twists of mind games! And this picture "Into the Blue" has all of that.The story is simple it involves a plane crash, and a ship or boat type that have sunk into the deep blue waters of the Bahamas, already present and living like two love birds are two straight arrow types Jared(the late Paul Walker)and Sam(Jessica Alba who's so cute and sexy!)who welcome some old friends Bryce(Scott Caan) and Amanda(Ashley Scott)who's morals are a little dirty and questionable.Along the way a tale of cocaine and treasures unfold with divers and drug dealers involved as it's high action and rocky drama on the waves of the Bahamas! Also Jessica Alba has a damsel in distress moment as she's kidnapped and taken hostage by the bad drug dealers as she has her mom taped with duct tape. Overall it has all the elements and themes of action drama movies like adventure and bad against good and rescue and the search for better goods! Give it a watch not really a bad movie and you will enjoy like me, if your a Jessica Alba fan.

***SPOILERS*** Spectacular under as well as out of the water photography overcome the somewhat lukewarm plot about the crash of a plane loaded with 800 cartons of cocaine in the Bahamas on top of a sunken ship, that was sailing from New Orleans, the "Zephyr" that sunk during a hurricane back in 1861 with a sh*t load of gold bars and jewelry that was leaving the states as the Civil War was about to brake out. This treasure of gold and coke was discovered by beach boy Jared played by the late Paul Walker and his hot girlfriend Samantha, Jessica Alba, while scuba diving off the coast.It's Jered's friend Bryce, Scott Caan, from NYC who's a mouthpiece or shyster-Lawyer-for drug dealers who talks both Jared and Samathata or Sam as she's called to go diving for the loot that in the end leads to Bryce's girlfriend, that he picked up the night before at a Go-Go bar, Amanda, Ashley Scott, who ends up getting attacked by a 15 foot shark who ripped off her leg thus killing her.There's also a side story to all this in British drug lord Reyes,James Frain, whom the cocaine belonged to forcing Jared & Bryce to retrieve his drugs or else he'll have Jared's girlfriend Sam deep-ed sixth-ed and turned into shark bait at the bottom of the Caribbean Sea. there's another sub-plot to all this in that Rayes's partner***SPOILER***"Aquatic Theme Park" tour guide Derek Bates, Josh Brolin, who feels he's trying to screw him out of his share of the cocaine has him and his boys-local Bahamans hoodlums-knocked off so he can keep all the drugs all for himself along with the wreckage, some 150 million in gold and jewelry, of the sunken ship "Zephyr".***SPOILERS*** The action gets fast & furious as well as wet and waterlogged in the final moments of the movie with Jared and Sam slugging it out with Bates and whatever he still has left of his gang after he had most of them murdered along with his partner the snake-like and double crossing British drug kingpin Reyes. Bates get his much like the shark in "Jaws" did with an pressurized air tank slamming into him that exploded on impact. The film ends much like the 1977 movie "The Deep" did with Bryce after diving into the sea to retrieve a rusted cannon from the sunken ship "Zephyr" discovers the hundreds of gold bars in it that the cannon, by crashing into the ship, uncovered!

Okay, at first the only reason I watched this shipwreck of a movie called "Into the Blue" was to see Jessica Alba in a sexy bikini and boy did she not disappoint as she spends the majority of the movie clad in a bikini and Daisy Duke shorts. This fulfilled my movie night and my erotic dreams and made me forget about the amateur storyline and the pathetic ending of what had potential to be at least an average movie. The late Paul Walker stars as Jared, a down on his luck treasure hunter whose luck takes a turn in a different direction as he finds a relic from an old, obscure shipwreck. As Jared and company look for the abandoned ship, they spot a crashed drug plane and can't decide what to with the evidence they found. If they report the situation, they may not have the opportunity to find their treasure, because the area will be blocked for them. Eventually our flawed protagonists face time with the drug lord in order to survive this ordeal and to unravel the sunken ship before their rivalry does which would end up making them poor and destitute. As predicted as always our heroes emerge victorious as they overcome the drug lord and usurped their rivalry and successfully find the lost ship and the treasures that come with it. Not to show any disrespect to the deceased, but Paul Walker in my opinion was never really a talented performer and would be better off as the secondary star like his performance as Brian O'Connor from "The Fast and the Furious" series. Scott Caan is nowhere close to his father James' legacy, but was still fun to watch as Bryce, the cocky, best friend to Jared. The settings were absolutely photogenic, but it proves null and void thank to the crummy script which needed a lot more editing. At least Alba's sex appeal was enough to keep me glued to the set each time she poses in her bikini. All in this entire movie does not do justice at all. There are really no deeming entertainment values in "Into the Blue" unless to like the beauty and of the dimly clad outfit Alba wear throughout most of the movie. And that's not entirely a bad thing.

This movie is about a group of young people that goes on an underwater treasure hunt and comes in conflict with a drug-lord that have a plane full of drugs crashed in the vicinity.The movie has some nice underwater scenes and especially those including Jessica Alba. This is a movie that shall be seen on a big screen and on blue ray if possible.The storyline is fine, and comes with a lot of twists, but is nothing fancy.All in all, its a nice movie, but the nice story and scenes are just not enough to lift the movie above average. Its a movie you can watch once and be well entertained.If you liked this movie, you probably also like: "The Big Blue", "The Blue planet" and "Blue Crush".Note: If you like the underwater scenes don't turn off right away after the movie when the credits are shown.