Into the Blue 2: The Reef

Plot synopsis:
The film begins in Honolulu, Hawaii, with someone dumping large containers into the ocean and then going to meet with a few men in suits expecting to get paid. But because he dumped the containers and altered the schedule of those container shipments to the customer, he is killed.
We are then taken underwater in the blue ocean as Sebastian (Chris Carmack) and his girlfriend Dani (Laura Vandervoort) are dive surfing with a model. We learn that the group own a snorkeling business that rents out equipment for clients. Sebastian does not want to do this line of work forever.
For Sebastian, there are countless treasures in the ocean that he has been in search of for a long time but one that he has been searching for four years is the Spanish ship San Cristobal, which sank somewhere near the North Reef and is rumored to have sunk in the ocean with a large treasure.
Sebastian believes that if he finds this treasure, this will give him and his girlfriend the opportunity to live a better life.
Sebastian hangs out with his friend and employee Mace (Michael Graziadei) and his girlfriend Kimi (Mircea Monroe), Dani's best friend, who are a couple that have a difficult relationship because Mace tends to get involved with other women. While Mace and Kimi have a crazy relationship, Sebastian and Dani are very much in love.
While at work, they are visited by Carlton (David Anders) and Azra (Marsha Thomason), a couple who wants to hire them for diving in the North Reef for a week because they are looking for the San Cristobal.
Of course, Sebastian has been trying for several years to find it but Carlton happens to have a map which may lead them to the treasure. So, both Sebastian and Dani agree to help the couple. The four go on various diving expeditions to find the treasure.
We then get to see some of the beach life as all six individuals enjoy the beach. Dani, Kimi, Sebastian, and Mace get involved in separate beach volleyball competitions. Sebastian and Mace go against their main diving competitors, Avery (Rand Holdren), who dates a girl named Kelsey (Audrina Patridge), who loves to lecture him when he gets into trouble by messing around with women.
While at a club, another customer hits on the women and grabs the arm of Azra, who quickly puts him in a headlock. This raises the first red flag for Dani, who becomes suspicious.
The following day, we learn that Carlton is not really looking for the San Cristobal. He actually helps big clients smuggle treasure to other locations. Both Carlton and Azra tell Sebastian and Dani that if they help them find the two containers, they will earn $500,000. Also, we learn that if Carlton does not find the containers in a week, the men will kill them. The reason why he is willing to pay them a lot of money is part of an apology because the men who hired him know the names of Sebastian and Dani and their lives are in danger too.
So, now both Sebastian and Dani are forced to help Carlton and Azra find the two containers but while they are at sea, Avery takes notice and he starts looking to find whatever they are looking for.
With their lives threatened, Dani convinces Sebastian that they must look to see what is in those containers and why their lives are being threatened. Something terrible could be in those containers and they need to check them without bringing Carlton and Azra along.
Thus, the two take their boat out to sea late at night to dive and see what those containers are. What they find in the containers is not a treasure but a bomb. When they return from their boat after the dive, they are greeted by Carlton and Azra, who have been hiding in their boat and are ready to kill them. Carlton tells them that in container one there is the casing and in container two there is a nuclear warhead. One without the other is useless but together they make a powerful weapon. Their goal is to create a second Pearl Harbor.
Dani jumps off the boat to try to get help. She is found in the morning one mile off shore and is put in the hospital. At the same time, Azra and Carlton kidnap Mace and Kimi from their apartment and bring them back to the boat. They spend the night bound and gagged with Sebastian, and the next morning Carlton threatens to kill Kimi if Mace and Sebastian fail to retrieve the containers from the bottom of the sea. Azra tries to kill Dani in her hospital room, but she runs away and a chase ensues. Meanwhile, Sebastian and Mace try to bring up the containers for Carlton. Mace purposely messes up and Kimi is killed. Sebastian and Mace rebel, ending in Carlton and his bodyguard dead. Dani outruns Azra and Azra kills her boss so she can disappear again. Dani, Sebastian, and Mace reunite. They then have Kimi's funeral.
The movie concludes six months later where Sebastian and Mace find the San Cristobal and buy their someday boat.

Tags: violence, murder

Review:
i thought i would give this movie a chance because i must admit i really enjoyed the first.
into the blue 1 was pretty good so a sequel was hard to do.
the story was fine if not a little outdated and the acting was fine apart from a few silly actors letting the side down.as u can probably tell there is not a lot to write about this apart from that if you enjoyed the first 1 then you will probably enjoy this as well...just not as much.give it a try and let me know if my rating of fair or unfair;).
I wasn't all that impressed with either 1977's "The Deep" or the film it inspired 28 years later, 2005's "Into the Blue." They were decent oceanic thrillers but that's about it.
I liked the actors in both -- Nick Nolte, Robert Shaw & Jacqueline Bisset in "The Deep" and Paul Walker, Scott Caan & Jessica Alba in "Into the Blue" -- but unless you're rabid fans of Bisset and Alba (or the guys) neither film ever rose above the level of average.2009's direct-to-video "Into the Blue 2: The Reef" is a sequel-in-name-only that successfully builds on the template of those other two films, delivering a far more entertaining experience IMHO."Into the Blue 2" simply has a more engaging story, more dazzling filmmaking and better, more numerous bikini-clad babes.
Although the main cast is relatively no-name (Chris Carmack, Laura Vandervoort, Marsha Thomason & Dave Anders), they do a splendid job; plus the film is highlighted by two solid cameos of Parvati Shallow ("Survivor") and Audrina Patridge, both incredibly gorgeous.
Up to that point the story is pretty much just a fun, light-hearted beach/diving flick.
The dramatic change in tone works in the film's favor and keeps it from being one-dimensional.Since "Into the Blue 2: The Reef" is a direct-to-video release it cost a fraction the expense of "The Deep" and "Into The Blue," the latter of which cost a whopping $50 million, believe it or not.
This makes an interesting study: Filmmakers can make better films at a fraction of the cost; it's simply a matter of ingenuity.
"Into the Blue 2" was shot in Hawaii whereas the other two were filmed in the Caribbean.The runtime is 92 minutes.GRADE: A-.
Bush started with his second period as a President of the United States; North Korea announced its possession of nuclear weapons; Pope John Paul II died after a long illness; and a movie called Into the Blue appeared.The existence of this movie is not as bad as the other things that happened on that year,but the film itself was execrable.Now,in 2009,the United States have another President,there is another Pope,new Korean nuclear weapons...and the film Into the Blue 2: The Reef,which is better than the original one...but that's the same as saying: "getting your fingers cut is better than getting your head cut".This sequel is a really bad film which kept me tremendously bored and uninterested.The cast of Into the Blue 2: The Reef is composed by TV-series actors who completely lack of any credibility and dramatic weight,but who are perfect for showing their bodies.Chris Carmack (The O.C.),David Anders (Heroes and Alias),Laura Vandervoort (Smallville),Marsha Tomason (Lost) and Audrina Patridge (The Hills) bring hollow and boring performances.I liked some previous movies from director Stephen Herek (Critters and Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure specially) but on this movie,he cannot generate even the minimum level of tension,emotion or entertainment.The characters from this movie are not only badly performed,but they are also repulsive.Honestly,I wanted all of them to die.The cinematography from this movie is also lame and it seems to have been made by a technical team who makes promotional videos for Hawaiian hotels.Into the Blue 2: The Reef is a horrible movie which is better than the original film,but that's the same as nothing,as I previously said.Avoid this crappy film at all costs..
x stands for a peak-of-irrelevance-person, whose irrelevance i will not undermine by memorizing her name and positively shall not be mistaken for an actress.x is part of a plague that infected television and made real what we would have thought ten years ago is a sick joke: people who have no life watch people having no life.Speaking of sick joke - whose idea was it to hire x as ...
no, i correct: INSTEAD of an actress for this movie?
Anyhofromthehills, this film has x in it and you just know that is it's terminal flaw.
Which is - come to think of it - a good thing as it makes you run to the hills and hide from it..
If you think that maybe this movie is not as bad as the reviews say....don't, unless you want to laugh at really really bad movie- making.
If you think that maybe this movie is not as bad as the reviews say....don't, unless you want to laugh at really really bad movie- making.
If you think that maybe this movie is not as bad as the reviews say....don't, unless you want to laugh at really really bad movie- making.
while generally i find it a turn off when seeing 100% "preaty people as utterly unrealistic(this coming from a blonde one myself), for this particular feature it is bearable since it is an exotic adventure movie to start with = all comes down to exercising the imagination.but the main aspect i truly enjoyed was the music score; great combination of uplifting sounds compounding many musical genres.
this is a good movie to watch while preparing to leave for vacation...yes, very commercial at times but the feature does not pretend be more then what it is; a light pure entertaining plot(does not take itself too serious but good enough script to keep viewer in suspense)and full of visually rich cinematography(humans and nature).if you liked "into the blue 1"-2005 and/or feel in an adventurous mood, then this one is for you.quiet a few scenes are literal rip-offs from the first one.
my favorite actress was Marsha Thomason, great touch in moving plot forward .
The picture starts perfectly and initially it was so excited but the main thing starts at the middle of the film, where the villains come into the picture.
Initially started off after the villains come in is they wanted to search the Sand Cristobal which the hero and the heroine are searching for 4 years and after some time they turns the real story of the lovely couple into a disaster by telling what they actually wanted.
But in the starting itself they will show us that two huge boxes are thrown into the ocean which is the main theme of the story.
The villain people come to search them and take them home but ....Cheers.....
My first review of 2010 is "Into The Blue 2: The Reef".
The story is about two divers played by Chris Carmack and Laura Vandervoort who love to explore hidden treasures at a bottom of a local reef.
One day after a day of exploring they are approached by a couple played by David Anders and Marsha Thomason.
They tell the young divers that they want to hire them to explore the reef and find a rare artifact about Columbus' hidden treasure that is reported at the bottom of the reef.Next day the four dive to the bottom of the reef and of coarse after a whole day of diving they find nothing.
A few more days past and the two hired divers found out that they a part of a major deadly plot in which they can't escape otherwise they will be killed.
One contains a nuclear reactor and the other contains a core.The movie also has a back story about another person (brother of the lead character) trying to patch things up with his girlfriend, I reckon this part of the story was a waste of time, this also includes a very steamy sex scene between the couple which to me is a complete waste and wasn't needed to be shown.However apart from that, this movie does have some good underwater photography and the colors blend in well which is why it receives 4 stars.
Brainless film about a good looking but brainless couple who decide to live their dream and take people on diving tours.
Great looking direct to video movie could have been so much better if it wasn't so interested in primarily looking good.
Performances are serviceable and the plot is actually not bad, or would have been had the director and producers not redirected the plot into making sure we see lots of shapely people in bathing suits (or in what I'm guessing the reason for the "unrated" moniker a few fleeting bare breasts).
The film never generates any tension nor rises above the level of a forgettable TV movie.
If you get roped in to seeing this you won't pluck your eyes out since the eye candy is pleasant but we really need to stop producers from making films that are excuses to have a paid vacation..
Oh boy, this is the sort of film that makes you feel sorry for Hollywood screenwriters.
I mean, everybody's got to pay bills, so you figure you'll take a job writing the direct-to-DVD sequel of Jessica Alba movie.
And then your producer says you've got to write a part for an MTV reality star, create an entire second set of characters because the leading lady won't take her top off, inject an Iraq/Afghanistan war theme into the movie because somebody wants to pretend they're relevant and to top it off, you've got to jerry rig an ending out of spit and bailing wire when the production runs out of money.
No wonder writers drinkand so many of them commit suicide.Sebastian and Dani (Chris Carmack and Laura Vandervoort) are a young, impossibly good looking pair of lovers who run a diving business in Hawaii.
Then one day, they're hired by an international couple who say they're looking for the same ship wreck.
Carlton and Azra (David Anders and Marsha Thomason) are wealthy and mysterious and turn out to have a hidden agenda.
And then they have another agenda hidden under that which gets explained in a scene that is literally jaw droppingly stupid.In the midst of all that, a few girls show their breasts, there's some nicely filmed underwater scenes and the movie rolls out a total of 8 montages to kill time.
The rule in cinema is generally that more than 2 montages means your film sucks, but 8 takes it to a completely different level.
8 montages moves beyond considerations of good and bad and almost turns this motion picture into a force of nature, like an earthquake or Galactus.Now, this is a talented enough cast, director Stephen Herek looks like he knows what he's doing and the dialog isn't atrocious, but this script is dragged to the bottom of the sea by way too many creative requirements.
The folks who made Into The Blue 2: The Reef wanted there to be nudity, and naked breasts do show up at regular intervals.
Usually the lead actress is a big part of that, but these guys gave that part to Laura Vandervoort, who refused to get nude.
So, writer Mitchell Kapner was tasked with inserting a secondary female character into the story to do the nudity that Vandervoort wouldn't, which also required the insertion of a secondary male character so she'd have someone to do a sex scene with.To his credit, Kapner tries to give those secondary characters their own storyline but it detracts from both the two leads and the villainous couple they face off with.
It's this obtrusive third wheel that boggles up the plot, takes away characterization time from the stars of the show and it's blazingly obvious that it's only in the film because Vandervoort wouldn't show her glorious ta-ta's.The screenplay is burdened with too many other things like that, from two painfully bad scenes with Audrina Patridge from MTV's The Hills to a treasure hunting movie ludicrously morphing into an espionage flick with an anti-war message to an ending so cheaply pulled off it can't possibly have been the original idea.
This production spent a good chunk of money shooting a lot of expensive underwater footage and then it's big, explosive conclusion is almost Ed Woodian in its staging and execution.I haven't seen Into The Blue, though I'm fairly certain Jessica Alba doesn't take her clothes off in it.
Maybe if she had, these producers would have felt compelled to get an actress who would do the same, which would probably have made Into The Blue 2: The Reef significantly better.
Good plot but things thrown in for no reason.
I loved the first movie but this one seemed to grasp sexual content and nudity too much, one scene was thrown in just for this content.
It did not move the plot forward and it did not define a single character.
However, this movie did a great job with filming.
The whole film also contributes to the ending where Sebastion and Dani come out on top and defeat the villains.
The movie also makes me respect Dani more too because she was suspicious of their new clients the whole time.
I respected Dani much more after this film.
Great movie.
Come on give me a break , some people wouldn't know a good movie if it bit them in the...
For one thing there wasn't that much skin in the movie as some would exaggerate that it does also no it doesn't have A list actors in it .
The movie was very entertaining .
The acting was great for non A-list actors very entertaining and great story.
If you like ocean movies which I do, judge for your self .
Just cause I like ocean movies doesn't mean I like them all.
I bought this one for my DVD collection to go right beside the first one that was also a great movie.
I only gave this 10 stars cause of the bad reviews it received that it didn't deserve at all .
Oh my goodness, where do I start?
I remember hearing about this movie back in 2009 when I saw it on a shelf at Target back then.
I remember being curious about it because I kind of enjoyed the first movie but in some ways, I was a little iffy about it.
I remember wanting to watch it but I didn't buy it until October of last year but I didn't actually watch it until a few weeks ago, and man, I really wish that I didn't.I am going to say this: I have SOMEWHAT of a thing for unrelated direct-to-video sequels.
I know that a lot of them turn out not to be so good.
Some just happen to have the name slapped on it and it's the same thing but it turns out to be really bad.
Few are actually good, and this is not one of those movies.
It was really bad.Now I am not going to deny that the movie has a lot of eye candy.
It had some great visuals of Hawaii, great underwater sequences and of course, great looking women.
Laura Vandervoort, Mircea Monroe, Marsha Thomason, Audrina Patridge, even some of the other female characters who we didn't get to know were all smoking hot.
Now on to the negatives.The plot is almost a replica of the first film, yet there were some differences.
Plus, it felt kind of predictable who the villains were.
Right at the beginning, I kind of sensed that the British people were going to be revealed as the villains more than halfway through the movie but I saw it coming from a mile away.
Also, another thing that I thought that was badly done was when they killed off Mircea Monroe's character.
I get that in a lot of movies, there has to be at least one casualty in the protagonist group, but I really didn't think that her character needed to be iced unless the writers wanted it to resemble the first film.
But in the first film, the reason the other girl died was because she got bit by a shark but she was somewhat of an antagonist anyway.
This movie, on the other hand, didn't have a reason to kill her off and then later on, have a little funeral for her and then it was like it didn't happen.
The actor could have shown that he was more broken up about his girlfriend's death than he actually did.There are some more negative things that I could point out.
Also, the mini subplot with Audrina Patridge's character coming up and talking all fast was really pointless and her boyfriend wasn't even a major character in the movie.
Also, Laura's character making a fast recovery from hypothermia.
But that's not the bad part, the bad part is that we last saw her wearing a hospital gown but when we saw her meet up with her friends, we see her wearing a different shirt and you see the bikini string coming out of the shirt collar.
Okay, for one thing, she wouldn't had enough time to go and change her shirt because she had to meet her friends to help them.
Even she did have enough time, the best thing she could do is just get a shirt, not a bikini top along with it.
I thought that was a major error when I saw it.I could really go on about how bad this movie is.
The first movie wasn't special either, but I found it entertaining in some areas.
This movie, on the hand, had so many errors and it suffered from bad writing and bad directing.
Some of the acting was decent, particularly from the villains, but other than that, it was a bad movie.
Don't ever waste your time watching this movie.