“Into the Blue” is, of all issues, an journey story. Not a high-powered thriller with goofy particular results, however a narrative about folks and hazards and treasure and love,
wherein each single factor that everyone does is bodily potential for folks to actually do (besides that they will apparently maintain their breath indefinitely). The movie is written, acted and directed as a narrative, not as an train in senseless kinetic vitality.
Paul Walker and Jessica Alba star, as Jared and Sam, lovers who dwell on a leaky boat within the Bahamas and seek for buried treasure. They haven’t discovered a lot, however they’ve their like to preserve them heat.
Tied up at a close-by dock is the bigger and extra highly effective boat of Bates (Josh Brolin), who has cash and success and needs to rent Jared, however there’s one thing creepy about him.
Jared’s buddy Bryce (Scott Caan) flies in from the mainland with a girlfriend named Amanda (Ashley Scott) he says he picked up the evening earlier than.
All of them go diving collectively and discover two sorts of treasure in kind of the identical place: one historic, one proper updated. They might turn out to be very wealthy.
However Bryce is grasping and needs to push them in a course that Jared and Sam are ethically against.
This description sounds dry and summary, however the movie is juicy with enjoyable. I’m attempting to not inform you an excessive amount of about what occurs, as a result of one of many pleasures of “Into the Blue” is that it develops as a story,
not as a collection of action scenes, and the characters don’t mindlessly hurry from one unattainable stunt to a different however weigh their choices, advocate opposing methods and improvise once they get in peril.
Quite a lot of the movie takes place underwater, and director John Stockwell and cinematographers Shane Hurlbut and Peter Zuccarini do an excellent job of preserving us oriented beneath the ocean.
We all know kind of the place the whole lot is, and what it means, and the way it may be concerned within the story; when there’s an underwater emergency that nearly kills Bryce,
it’s dealt with as if the characters (or the writers) have some sensible details about scuba diving. There’s additionally the shock of getting one thing very dangerous occur to a personality we had each purpose to count on can be round till the top of the movie.
