Into the Blue

Plot synopsis:
Jared (Paul Walker) and Sam (Jessica Alba) are two lovers living a rustic life in a trailer, next to the beach in the Bahamas. Sam works as a guide in the local aquatic theme park, "Atlantis", and Jared has worked a number of odd jobs in his field of passion, diving. His real dream, though, is finding one of many merchant and pirate ships lost in the waters around the Bahamas, many of them with large amounts of gold on board.Jared's friend Bryce (Scott Caan) and his girlfriend Amanda (Ashley Scott) come to visit, as Bryce, a lawyer in New York City, has acquired the use of a luxury vacation house from a client he defended. While snorkeling, Jared comes across artifacts that seem to stem from a ship wreck. The four of them investigate and find several other pieces that turn out to be the remains of a legendary French pirate ship, the Zephyr, lost as the pirate made his getaway.This legendary shipwreck is rumored to contain millions of dollars in gold. The foursome, thinking their dreams of discovering buried treasure have finally come true, decide to investigate. While exploring it to try and stake their claim, they come across the remains of a crashed plane carrying a large quantity of cocaine. Bryce and Amanda are advocates of keeping the cocaine to sell it for profit, while Jared and Sam oppose it. To avoid attracting attention to the location of their treasure find, Bryce and Amanda agree not to report the crashed plane and its illegal cargo until they have secured their claim on the sunken ship.Jared and Bryce go to a local boat supplier in order to make a deal for the equipment needed to retrieve the treasure, with Bryce funding the purchase. However, Jared soon finds out that Bryce, during a trip to Las Vegas about a month ago, borrowed money from a loan shark and is in heavy debt and therefore is in no position to pay for anything.Without Jared's knowledge, Bryce and Amanda come up with a plan to retrieve some of the cocaine from the sunken plane and sell it to local night club owner Primo (Tyson Beckford). Unfortunately, Primo turns out to be an associate of the drug lord Reyes (James Frain) to whom the cocaine belonged in the first place. Reyes, wanting his cocaine back, threatens Jared, Amanda and Bryce at gunpoint to bring him his cocaine or die.Faced with this choice, Jared agrees to retrieve the cocaine. However, he tells Reyes that he will need $30,000 worth of non-refundable diving equipment to do so. Instead, he uses the situation to get to the gear he needs to salvage the Zephyr.Back on land, the trio breaks the bad news to Sam. Sam is heartbroken that Jared would violate his principles and work for drug lords. He tries to convince her that it's okay and that it's a one-time thing, but Sam leaves him, saying that 'they' are over.Jared, Bryce, and Amanda head to sea. They start the night's work by uncovering the site of the Zephyr, finding the ship's bell with the name on it. For Jared, the victory feels hollow, though.As they are moving the cocaine packs from the plane to their surface boat, Amanda is attacked by a large tiger shark. She is brought to the hospital where she dies due to a huge bite out of her left leg. Hearing of the tragedy, Sam comes to the hospital and she and Jared are reunited.While driving back from the hospital, the threesome (Jared, Sam, and Bryce) are confronted by Primo at an intersection. A short, but intense car chase ends up with Jared leaving their truck and telling Bryce and Sam to meet him later. He surrenders to Primo and tries to get them to back off by offering them and their boss the loot on the Zephyr. Primo still takes him to Reyes' boat. The boat looks deserted, so Primo tells Jared to lie down on the floor of the state room while he investigates. After some time, when Primo doesn't return, Jared goes to explore. He finds Primo, Reyes and several others shot dead in one the bedrooms. Out from the toilet comes Bates (Josh Brolin), a local salvager and former employer of Jared's. He asks Jared where "his cocaine" is and Jared bolts. He escapes from the boat and heads for shore.Meanwhile, Sam insists on going to the police, and goes to the private home of one of their friends, a local cop named Roy (Dwayne Adway). Bryce drops her off, but thinking they'll get busted, heads off to meet Jared. Roy comforts Sam and tells her he knows a guy who can help, but that it has to be kept outside of the official channels, as he's not sure who he can trust. Roy betrays Sam and takes her to Bates, who captures her.Jared and Bryce meet up and Jared calls the captive Sam, who is handcuffed and gagged with duct tape. Bates answers her cell phone and tells Jared to disclose the location of the cocaine. Jared insists that they meet and Jared show him to the location. Bryce and Jared then make a plan to settle the situation once and for all.Jared is taken aboard Bates' boat, the Sea Robin. Here he is shown Sam, who is in the engine room, handcuffed to the body of Roy and gagged with duct tape, who was shot by Bates. The Sea Robin heads for the location where Jared directs them, but as they approach the area, they see a white substance floating on the surface. Jared tells Bates that it's half of the cocaine, ruined, and that Jared will destroy the rest. He jumps into the water, and Bates and his men, after changing into Scuba gear, go after him. Below the surface, in the plane, the divers look for Jared. Bryce has switched places with one of the dead pilots, and they use this to mount a surprise attack. An underwater struggle follows, killing all of Bates' men and wounding Bryce.Meanwhile, Sam finds a forgotten machete in the engine room and uses it to free herself from Roy's body by cutting off his arm. She then severs a pipe, which brings one of Bates' men down into the engine room, where she locks him in. They then goes up to the bridge to call for help. The man escapes from the engine room; a chase around the boat ends in a fight that Sam ultimately wins as they go into the water and the man, wounded by Sam with a boat hook, is attacked by another tiger shark.Below, Jared and Bates are the only ones left. Jared uses an air tank as a missile by hammering off the valve. Bates escapes it, but as it hits the fuel tank at the back of the plane, it causes the entire plane to explode, killing Bates. Sam jumps into the water, fearing for Jared's life, but he survives.Six weeks later. The trio is salvaging the Zephyr. After trying to bring an old cannon atop fails and the cannon sinks back down to the bottom, Sam and Jared call it a night. However, Bryce sees something in the water, uncovered as the cannon hit the wood of the wreck's deck. He jumps in and dives down. As he comes back up he announces that he found the gold of the Zephyr.

Tags: violence

Review:
The cast are all good enough, although they were probably chosen as much for their looks as their acting abilities, but who can deny that Jessica Alba and Ashley Scott did add a sexy feel for the male audience, and i guess Paul Walker and Scott Caan did the same for the ladies.What really made the film for me was the truly fantastic scenery and the underwater camera work; it was flawless and stunningly beautiful in a way that is rarely captured on film, three cheers for the direction and the film crew for that.7/10.
Sure I love much more clever crafted films , but for the MTV generation this film had just enough, maybe the fact that I am an ocean person, have a thing for treasure, the romance of lost properties and jessica alba- i was totally enjoying it.
The team of divers faces danger when they attempt to retrieve goods from a pirate ship, as they spend time in shark-infested water and compete with treasure-seeker(Josh Brolin) and confront against nasty drug-lord(James Frain).
Jessica Alba fans will ask no more than the sight of their idol in a swimsuit although Ashley Scott come across as the more likable of the two girls involved in this fast-moving sunken treasure yarn.Gorgeous cinematography manage to keep this afloat with fab footage maritime by cameraman Shane Hurbut and pulsating musical score by Paul Haslinger.
Yes, the guy who played Cougar in Top Gun. One may dislike the content of the films he's made thus far in his early directing career (Blue Crush, Crazy/Beautiful), but one cannot deny the fact that the man knows how to shoot young women's bodies.
I didn't have high hopes when I went to see this film and expected it to be little more than Jessica Alba in a bikini and her friends arguing over some underwater goodies.
After reading some negative feedbacks regarding Into the Blue, I was a little bit pessimistic about that movie that's why I went to see it without expecting anything from it(...except maybe to contemplate Jessica Alba :).
After 5 minutes, you're already dreaming of being Jared (Paul Walker) (people here have no surname ;) having Sam (Jessica Alba:) just for you but everything gets complicated when old Jared's pal Bryce arrives on the Island with is 14 hours girl friend Amanda.
Add to this some tiger sharks, lost treasures, pirates, drug dealers, treasons and you get Into the blue, the kind of movie you'll be happy to watch, a cold Winter Saturday night with noisy pals with some pizzas and fresh beers.
I'd read about this film and seen the trailer and knew I would see it even after I read all the damning reviews people have written.For the first hour, it's easy to see why people might get bored, there's a lot of character and story building going on and besides the diving there isn't a lot else going on action-wise.
The beauty of the people in this simple adventure plot adds to the overall beauty of this film and is not a separate element as a lot of Jessica-Alba-in-bikini-blah-blah suggests.
Now, I'm not just talking about Alba in a bikini (although, phwoar) or the obligatory sixpack with a mouth (in the form of Paul Walker here), because the of the beautiful Bahamas and ocean life are just fascinating.The story itself tries to be that bit more than your average yarn of this type, however, it doesn't really succeed in doing anything more than linking each diving/action set piece (which, in fairness, are usually executed with aplomb).
A youthful, photogenic guy with big dreams, accompanied by his photogenic girlfriend, uses a skimpy boat to look for sunken treasure beneath the clear, blue waters off the Bahamas.The visuals are dazzling, with bright, vivid colors, and some terrific underwater photography that captures images of real sharks and real fish, not fake CGI effects.
He lives with his girlfriend, Sam(Jessica Alba) in a trailer park in the beautiful Bahamas where they try to make a living searching for sunken treasure in the shark-infested waters.
While it definitely had a few close ups of Jessica and Paul underwater and some professional waverunner stunts, it was also a pretty good story with a "leave you hanging" ending.
Jessica Alba plays Sam, a shark-loving scuba diver who spends her sun-filled days swimming in the glistening Caribbean Sea with her equally-tanned-and-toned boyfriend Jared (Paul Walker).
Into the blue is directed by Jhon Stockwell, and stars Paul Walker, Jessica Alba and Scott Caan in the leading roles.
The only good thing in this movie is to see the most beautiful woman in the world Jessica Alba in a swimming-suit.
If you want to see a good movie don't watch this, but if you are looking for beautiful bodies and underwater cinematography this is the movie for you..
Its fun, watchable and yes, Jessica Alba looks totally hawt.To do justice to this film, you should watch the "Making of" documentary which shows the absolutely beautiful Jessica skin diving with massive sharks - wearing only that stunning bikini, whilst the dive camera crew are wearing chain mail suits for protection.
A fun movie, highly watchable and worth buying on Blue Ray thanks to the pretty Miss Alba's taunt tight bodacious body.
The bad acting in this movie totally overwhelmed the eye candy of Jessica Alba.
Paul Walker can't even act like a living human being, let alone a convincing treasure diver, or anything else for that matter.Nobody watched this film for the acting...let's all be honest adults.
Anyone who says this film is even half good is lying because their spouse is standing behind them as they write their review.It is awful, but by all means watch it...Jessica Alba is a national treasure..
Sure the scenery was excellent, the cinematography was beautiful (alba's body of course too, but an actress that makes her not.) The story is just ridiculously stupid, Paul walkers friend is a complete loser w@nker who if i met for 30 seconds I would crush his skull, his girlfriend would then be next.
In Caribbean Sea, the diver Jared (Paul Walker) and his girlfriend Sam (Jessica Alba) have a simple life, aiming at finding a treasure, but without money to buy the necessary ship and equipment.
I think that's how the movie took shape - one guy in Hollywood woke up one day and said "let's make a movie about Jessica's ass - you know like 2 hours showing her ass without making a porn flick out of it - gimme a story to go with it".Before you call me ...
I've seen porn movies with a better plot and those movies are definitely not about the story.Don't forget about the 2 acting stances the main character is able to pull - one half sarcastic and one kind of angry in which he pushes somebody around (kind of a gay outburst if you ask me).Can't say anything about Jessica though as besides "pose for the camera", "smile at the camera", "show your ass for the camera" there is not much else.And that's pretty much it.
Paul Walker and Jessica Alba star in this highly forgettable and predictable movie about a group of divers who get in trouble with a drug lord upon finding a sunken airplane.The movie makes some attempts at having twists and turns, but none of them really work.
If all you want is Jessica, then your better off drooling over her dance scene in Sin City as you would here.In conclusion, Into the Blue is a horrible and forgettable movie, with a predictable script and atrocious acting.
Get a life and write some new scripts for Gosh sakes!Or at least be honest enuff to acknowledge the kinship between this groaner and the original!Not that "The Deep" was all that great a flick but Nick Nolte had as much character in his little finger as pretty boy Walker in his whole six-pack!Yes,Jessica is a dish but she still needs to develop some prescence to go with the athletic good looks..
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.
Post script: I thought this movie had excellent underwater photography, location was incredible, entertaining plot line, lots of scenery, ocean views, underwater shots, underwater habitats and sea creatures, island and the island dwellers were too bad either.
So, I will say that the only reason to see this movie is Jessica Alba and her body.So Paul Walker(Fast and the Furious) does a bad job portraying Jared, a loser who pretty much has nothing to live for except a sinking boat and a delusional, yet very hot girlfriend named Sam, played by Jessica Alba (Fantastic Four.) Both of them along with two incredibly stupid friends go treasure hunting, since they are in the Bahamas, that's what people do, and may have found a 200 year old sunken ship.
I was so tired of seeing close-ups of his incredibly cut body that I was violently ill, and that was after the first five minutes.The only redeeming thing about this movie is that for at least three quarters of the movie, Jessica Alba is in a bikini, and there are some shots of her underwater that make me think that the only way you can see more of her skin is if she does a nude scene in a movie, or you are dating her.
That should tell you how bad this movie is and how unbelievable the story became.To sum up, movie sucks, Paul Walker sucks, and Jessica Alba continues to be ultra hot.
This one probably isn't a measure of her talent, since her main mission seems to be to wow the male half of the audience with her incredible good looks and considerable swimming skill (getting your start in "Flipper" helps, I guess.) But if making a couple of million a picture isn't enough for her, than Jessica has to start going after supporting roles in some smaller projects because so far, she has done nothing in her big screen career to establish herself as a real actress.
Sure its basically just a virtual vacation action movie with gratuitous ass shots, like excessive, close up (very sexy) ass shots but whatever, everybody looks good and the underwater stunts and intriguing story made up for it.
Paul Walker (sigh) plays a diver/treasure hunter who along with his girlfriend (uber sexy Jessica Alba) find themselves battling sharks and ruthless criminals after discovering a historic ship wreck and a sunken cargo plane loaded with cocaine.
With the mix of famous actors/actresses and beautiful scenery, it is hard not to like this film.Paul Walker gives a solid performance and Jessica Alba is not only very sexy but a great actress as well.
There is room on my shelves for a bit of fluff on occasion and I have added this movie to my collection of BBC, Shakespeare, Jane Austin, Action, Comedy and of course only the best of SciFi.Some movies are just for fun, not meant to be works of literary genius.The underwater shots were its biggest appeal for me, I am diving again after years out of the water.The young good looking cast are a bonus, and the plot was good enough to keep me engaged.
I wanted to watch it because it did look good.Into the Blue is Jessica Alba's third movie to be released in the year 2005 (Sin City, Fantastic 4 and Into the Blue.
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!
Give it a watch not really a bad movie and you will enjoy like me, if your a Jessica Alba fan..
More than half the movie is shot under water and some of the scenes with fish are pretty good, but it was difficult to tell who the divers were since they all looked alike with their scuba gear on.
While I think Jessica Alba is great most of the time and Paul Walker was good in Eight Below, they just have nothing when it comes to this movie.
At times it looks, feels and tastes good, but is actually full of air and empty calories.The story revolves around the friends, acquaintances and adventures of Jared (Paul Walker) and his girlfriend, Sam (Jessica Alba) in the Bahamas.
The acting was definitely not the cream of the crop.For whatever it's worth, Paul Walker does look extremely hot and for those who would like to see Jessica Alba in a bikini, go for it and spend ten dollars.
Like me he loved the world under the water!Plot was good, filming was great.
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.
Specially when the sharks appeared.I can't say this is a good movie but it is surely entertaining for popcorn fun purposes.Watch it with low expectations and you might surprise yourself..
For a film set in deep water, Into the Blue is, for the most part, incredibly shallow stuff, being little more than an excuse to deliver some very impressive underwater photography whilst simultaneously showing off the stars' hot bods.The storya rather predictable adventure about a group of divers who discover a crashed plane full of cocaine on the ocean floor while searching for sunken treasuredefinitely comes second to the stunning visuals (and the even more stunning shots of Jessica Alba's fine ass) and it isn't until the film's closing moments that things eventually kick into gear to bring viewers the tense action promised in the DVD blurb.
Jessica Alba is worth looking at in this film, as she has a good role.
I was expecting a movie based around Jessica Alba wearing a bikini, but there was a bit of a story and some great underwater & diving cinematography.
Surprisingly Entertaining and Fun. I had the misconception before watching this movie that it was going to be nothing but Jessica Alba running around in a swimsuit.
If so, not readily discernible, but doesn't detract from the spirit of this movieActors: Paul Walker and Jessica Alba were wonderful as the leads, even had good chemistry--gee, two great looking people have chemistry, who would have thought.
But stay tuned: this is a film of visual splendor and tense intrigue and action that is up there with the best of them.Amidst some of the most spectacular underwater sea photography on record blooms a story of friends with polar priorities: Jared (Paul Walker) and Sam (Jessica Alba) live the simple life in the Bahamas, sport diving, looking for lost treasure ships as a hobby; visiting lawyer friend Bryce (Scott Caan) and his just-met current squeeze Amanda (Ashley Scott) have dubious pasts and are out for the quick buck no matter the dangers.
But their plan goes awry when they realize dangerous smugglers are already closing in on the missing plane, and one of the friends makes a fatal decision that quickly turns the treasure hunters into the hunted.Starring Jessica Alba and Paul Walker, this movie has something for everyone under 25, and shouldn't be passed up if you're simply looking for a fun night out..
Those definitions could easily describe "Into the Blue." Definitely not one to go down in the history of films, but that isn't the idea.Jared (Paul Walker) and Sam (Jessica Alba) are two young lovers living in the Caribbean.