Into The Blue

Director John Stockwell apparently specialises in making movies featuring women in very little clothing (see Crazy/Beautiful or Blue Crush), and here he certainly doesn’t break with tradition. Into The Blue is almost two hours of Jessica Alba’s bottom. Okay, so that’s not entirely true, but there is a lot of skin to go around.

It has been said before, but bears repeating: Into The Blue seems to be an unofficial remake of the 1977 film The Deep, based on the book by Peter Benchley. Buried treasure, people with guns, all in a watery paradise. Into The Blue is very derivative, but not entirely predictable. Its main flaw is the running time, which could have easily been confined to under 90 mins, but here swells out to 110.

That being said, the ensemble cast seems to have enough fun, as they swim around with apparently very little need for oxygen. Paul Walker (Timeline) revels in the B grade script, as always, and Jessica Alba (Fantastic Four) does a great job also. Scott Caan (Ocean’s Twelve) has never really had enough charisma to please me, and Ashley Scott (S.W.A.T.) does well alongside him in a fairly undemanding role.

Into The Blue is a decent enough time waster, and – if nothing else – goes to show that little has changed in Hollywood. It’s The Deep with a little more violence and a lot less clothing.