Into the Blue
is a 2005 film starring Paul Walker and Jessica Alba. It was directed by John Stockwell. The film was distributed in North America by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Columbia Pictures, and was distributed overseas by 20th Century Fox. This film is loosely based on the 1977 film The Deep
which is based on Peter Benchley's novel of the same name.
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Plot outline
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 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, 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, on a trip to
Las Vegas, 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 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 equipment to do so. This is not true, of course, and he uses the unfortunate situation to get to the gear he needs to salvage the Zephyr.
Back on land, the trio breaks the bad news to Sam, who 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 she 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
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 trio (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 tried 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, so she 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.
Jared and Bryce meet up and Jared calls Sam. 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, 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.
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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. She 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.
This segues into a scene six weeks later, where 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.
Filming
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The special features section of the DVD chronicles how much of the movie was filmed as live action shots in the sea off the Bahamas, with live, wild sharks. It shows film crews wearing chain mail as protection whilst the cast perform in the water unprotected. The filming was made possible by the development of
shark tourism in the Bahamas. The sharks are used to being hand fed and will not generally attack humans but as a result will grab any item that "hits" the water as potential food. In an early scene Paul Walker has to grab two
fins and a dive mask flung to him by Alba. During filming he missed the mask. It was never seen again after hitting the water and the DVD suggests that it was taken by a shark.
Cast
- Paul Walker – Jared
- Jessica Alba – Sam
- Scott Caan – Bryce
- Ashley Scott – Amanda
- Josh Brolin – Derek Bates
- James Frain – Reyes
- Tyson Beckford – Primo
- Dwayne Adway – Officer Roy
- Javon Frazer – Danny
Reception
Into the Blue
received mostly negative to mixed reviews from critics.
RottenTomatoes.com lists Into the Blue with a "Rotten" rating of 21% based on 119 reviews, while
Metacritic.com lists the movie with a rating of 45 out of 100 based on 28 reviews, which indicates "mixed or average reviews".
Box office performance
USA
- Opening Weekend: $7,057,854
- Gross: $18,472,363 (October 30, 2005)
UK
- Opening Weekend: £510,323
- Gross: £1,712,797 (November 13, 2005)
Spain
- Opening Weekend: €797,431
Soundtrack
- "Good Old Days" - Ziggy Marley
- "I Will" - Holly Palmer
- "I'll Be" - O S Xperience
- "Time of Our Lives" - Paul van Dyk feat. Vega 4
- "Think It Matters" - Paul Haslinger & Dan di Prima
- "Clav Dub" - Rhombus
- "No Trouble" - Shawn Barry
- "Whoa Now" - Louque
- "VIP" - D Bo
- "J.O.D.D." - Trick Daddy feat. Khia & Tampa Tony
- "Papi" - The Jackson 2
- "It's Alright" - Guerilla Black
- "Of Course Nigga You Can" - Billy Steel
- "Perique" - Louque
- "Wonderful World, Beautiful People" - Jimmy Cliff
- "Remember" - Abdel Wright
Other Media
Into the Blue
was recently parodied in the
Robot Chicken
episode "Metal Militia" with Sam voiced by
Kelly Hu and Jared voiced by
Roger L. Jackson. During the segment it was featured in,
Seth Green informs the viewers that they write their movie parodies long before the movies are released due to it takes several months for animation to be produced with
Into the Blue
being an example.
Sequel
A sequel
Into the Blue 2: The Reef
has been released on direct to DVD status. The cast consists of
Chris Carmack,
Laura Vandervoort,
Audrina Patridge and
Mircea Monroe.
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References
- {{imdb title|id=0378109|title=Into the Blue}}