***SPOILERS*** Spectacular under as well as out of the water photography overcome the somewhat lukewarm plot about the crash of a plane loaded with 800 cartons of cocaine in the Bahamas on top of a sunken ship, that was sailing from New Orleans, the "Zephyr" that sunk during a hurricane back in 1861 with a sh*t load of gold bars and jewelry that was leaving the states as the Civil War was about to brake out. 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. Bates get his much like the shark in "Jaws" did with an pressurized air tank slamming into him that exploded on impact. The film ends much like the 1977 movie "The Deep" did with Bryce after diving into the sea to retrieve a rusted cannon from the sunken ship "Zephyr" discovers the hundreds of gold bars in it that the cannon, by crashing into the ship, uncovered!

Into the Blue (2005): Dir: John Stockwell / Cast: Paul Walker, Jessica Alba, Scott Caan, Ashley Scott, Josh Brolin: Below average thriller about the temptation of danger. Simple plot regards the discovery of a sunken plane that contained a massive amount of cocaine and the danger surrounding the site as smugglers close in. Director John Stockwell wisely concentrates on the relationships and details the structure but the conclusion is unrealistic and action oriented. The big downside is that the characters are mainly cardboard props with little personality and exist mainly to narrowly escape getting their asses handed to them. Paul Walker is given the role of hero who will ultimately conquer because that is what we expect. Jessica Alba plays his girlfriend involved in the marine life. She gets kidnapped and plays damsel throughout most of the movie. Scott Caan plays an old friend who becomes greedy. He is the one who lands their asses in trouble because he is dumber than sh*t. Ashley Scott plays Caan's five day girlfriend who is more trouble than she's worth. She is also dumber than sh*t. We have a lot of stupid people in this film whose prime talent is making all the wrong decisions. Action fans will enjoy its impressive marine footage but story is thread bare and drowns in silly action and much nonsense that spirals the script into more than the blue. Score: 3 / 10

I really enjoyed this film, and not having watched Fast and Furious I did not initially link Paul Walker and recent tragedy (so my view of film is not prejudiced by this event) ... To put it simply : Good narrative, plot, pace, visuals. Timing of events, for once, all locked into place well. The film even works with its low Parental Guidance (UK PG) rating (making it a 15 by adding more visual violence would have worked but taken some of the charm of the film away). I think some viewers, if watching a thriller just want to see blood / violence , but honestly this film did not need the extra ketchup. Beautiful people ... makes you want to hit the gym before summer holiday. As expected the ocean imagery / island life works well and leaves you wanting to jump on a plane. Paul Walker was solid and believable character. Well worth watching.

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.