Simply Perfect

A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

I don't know why this film was given such a low score. Maybe the critics got confused and walked into a different theater and expected this to be a high brow or special agenda film involving an all boy romance. Obviously they were disappointed.But not me.I enjoyed watching this film. Its a fun film to watch and I probably saw this a couple of dozen times.Jessica Alba and Paul Walker look outstanding in this film. Not only are they at their athletic physical best but there is also a natural chemistry between the two actors that is hard to deny. They also do give convincing performances.The other two actors also do give credible performances.The only issue I have with this film is that - it could have been edited better. Starting the film on the "white whale" was a bad start. Somethings once seen are hard to erase from your mind. The script could also have been tighten up and better written to portray the dilemma the characters faced.I would honestly have given it a 8/10 but given the sad rating - it deserves another star.

Jared (Paul Walker) and Sam (Jessica Alba) are a young couple trying to scrap up the money to hunt for treasures. Their friend Bryce (Scott Caan) arrives in Bahama with his new girl Amanda (Ashley Scott). The foursome does some diving and find some minor sunken treason. Then they come across a down plane loaded with cocaine. Jared and Sam don't want the drugs but Bryce and Amanda have other ideas. They decide to go back to map out and lay claim to the wreck suspected to be the legendary Zephyr. Only afterwards do they plan to report the drugs to the police. Bates (Josh Brolin) runs a competing professional salvage operation. He and his men are watching. Jared needs real money to hunt for the wreck. Bryce sees a way with the drugs in the downed plane.This starts out fine. It's a lot sun and a lot of beautiful bodies. About halfway through the movie, the escapist fun is all gone. It tries to turn into some tough gritty drug land thriller. It's too hard of a turn and throws me off the trail completely. The characters aren't likable enough to have rooting interest for. Scott Caan does such a good job as a douche that he infects the rest of the group. I didn't find any love for these characters and the fun is all drained out in the second half.

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.

When "Into the Blue" was first released, The New York Times, remaining ever true to its political-correctness dogma, dismissed it as irrelevant. Disregard. "Into the Blue," in reality, is a sexy, stylish, well-paced beach-side/underwater thriller that is positively laden with visual appeal. For the women, there's Paul Walker, showing off an absolutely drool-worthy set of abs and pecs in his Speedos and in his frequently-open shirts (and with his monumentally handsome puss freely displayed in mouth-watering close-ups). For us men, there are (sigh) Jessica Alba and Ashley Scott, lookin' good, good, GOOD in their bikinis and their tank tops and their tight jeans (and there's one SMOKIN' shot of our Ashley lying upon a boat topless with a pant-inducing view of her scrumptious bare feet). For those who just like good acting, there's Scott Caan and Josh Brolin, marvelously roguish and marvelously chilling, respectively, as Walker and Alba's questionable lawyer friend and "Blue"'s chief bad guy. The plot has something to do with Walker/Alba/Caan/Scott trying to retrieve some sunken treasure and Brolin resorting to murder and kidnapping in order to stop them, but, hey, the plot is certainly, definitely not the point. With "Into the Blue," skinthusiasts of both sexes have a near-pitch-perfect opportunity to settle in, sit back and soak up the eminently gorgeous flesh-and- blood scenery.