Into the Blue

"Treasure has its price."

2005 1h 50m EN

😐

5.9

MID

🥫

20%

ROTTEN

😬

METACRITIC

⭐

5.9

IMDB

★5.9TMDB · 1,721🥫20%Rotten Tomatoes●45Metacritic★5.9IMDB · 82,477

ActionThrillerAdventureCrime

Synopsis

Spoiler shield

When they take some friends on an extreme sport adventure, the last thing Jared and Sam expect to see below the shark-infested waters is a legendary pirate ship rumored to contain millions of dollars in gold. But their good fortune is short-lived, as a ruthless gang of criminals gets word of what they have uncovered.

“Treasure has its price.”

WhatsApp X Facebook Telegram

Where to watch · US

Amazon VideoRent

Apple TV StoreRent

Google Play MoviesRent

Google Play MoviesBuy

YouTubeBuy

Fandango At HomeBuy

Cast

Paul Walker
Jared
Jessica Alba
Sam
Scott Caan
Bryce
Ashley Scott
Amanda
Josh Brolin
Bates
James Frain
Reyes
Dwayne Adway
Roy
Chris Taloa
Quinn

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: John Stockwell
Writers: Matt Johnson, Peter Carpenter
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

Want more? Switch to Cinephile mode in the header for DP, composer, budget, box office, production companies, keywords, and release history.

Did you know?

Fun facts 🍿

1 / 8

MONEY

Did you know

Mid-budget at $50M — the now-extinct middle tier of Hollywood.

MoodPlayr · trivia#01

2 / 8

MONEY

Did you know

Earned back only 92% of its budget on initial theatrical — a commercial disappointment on release.

MoodPlayr · trivia#02

3 / 8

ERA

Did you know

Released 21 years ago.

MoodPlayr · trivia#03

4 / 8

CINEMA

Did you know

Part of the "Into the Blue Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

MoodPlayr · trivia#04

5 / 8

DIRECTOR

Did you know

Directed by John Stockwell, shot by Peter Zuccarini. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

MoodPlayr · trivia#05

6 / 8

DIRECTOR

Did you know

Original score by Paul Haslinger. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

MoodPlayr · trivia#06

7 / 8

DIRECTOR

Did you know

Editor Nicolas De Toth shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

MoodPlayr · trivia#07

8 / 8

CAST

Did you know

Paul Walker and Jessica Alba and Scott Caan carry the top of the cast.

MoodPlayr · trivia#08

Cinephile deep dive

The take

John Stockwell directs. Peter Zuccarini behind the camera. Paul Haslinger scores. Nicolas De Toth cuts. A commercial under-performer on release. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Mid-budget at $50M — the now-extinct middle tier of Hollywood.
2Earned back only 92% of its budget on initial theatrical — a commercial disappointment on release.
3Released 21 years ago.
4Part of the "Into the Blue Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
5Directed by John Stockwell, shot by Peter Zuccarini. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
6Original score by Paul Haslinger. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
7Editor Nicolas De Toth shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
8Paul Walker and Jessica Alba and Scott Caan carry the top of the cast.
9Marketing tagline: "Treasure has its price.".
10IMDB entry: tt0378109 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
11Classified under 14 themes, including "treasure", "airplane", "diving", "shipwreck".

The technical file

Cinematography: Peter Zuccarini
Original score: Paul Haslinger
Editing: Nicolas De Toth
Production design: Maia Javan
Costume design: Leesa Evans
Makeup / hair: Bridget Cook
VFX supervisor: Ray McIntyre Jr.
Sound: Jason King
Stunt coordinator: Mickey Giacomazzi
Runtime: 110 min · 1h 50m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $50,000,000
Box office: $46,117,696
Return: 92% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG-13
IMDB: Into the Blue (2005)
Rotten Tomatoes: 20% 🥫 Rotten
Metacritic: 45/100
IMDB rating: 5.9/10 · 82,477 votes
MPAA: PG-13

Awards

1 win & 2 nominations total

Part of

Into the Blue Collection

A collection of the Into the Blue movies.

Also by

John Stockwell

Stills · wallpapers

Selected frames

Full-resolution frames — open one to save it as a wallpaper.

Wallpaper

Trailers & featurettes

Watch the pieces

Community reviews

What people are saying

The Movie Mob2023-02-11
★ 7/10
Into the Blue doesn't break new ground, but it's a solid thriller with a fun cast, a suspenseful story, and worth a watch. Into the Blue is best known for capitalizing on the popularity of its attractive stars to promote this low-budget movie. Still, if you actually take the time to watch the film, you will find a solid thriller complete with treasure hunting, shark attacks, plot twists, drug lords, and more. Paul Walker and Jessica Alba excel as a young couple in love living off of small jobs in the Bahamas with dreams of running their own salvage rig one day. But their hunt for treasure intertwines with a drug runner's efforts to recover a lost shipment. The stakes keep rising higher and higher as sharks attack and trusted colleagues turn out to be not so trustworthy. Into the Blue's exciting and suspenseful treasure hunt might just be a hidden treasure of its own with the right expectations.
CinemaSerf2024-12-05
★ 6/10
Well I think the poster says it all, and if it's eye candy you are looking for then for the first hour or so neither Paul Walker nor Jessica Alba are going to disappoint. That comes later when they have to put their clothes on and do some acting with this far-fetched hybrid of drug smuggling and wreck-diving. It's the latter activity that convinces these two along with "Bryce" (Scott Caan) and "Amanda" (Ashley Scott) that their fortunes could be made. Snag is, you can't just raise tons of ancient booty from the sea bed and sail into harbour with it. What's this to do with drugs? Well we know from the preamble that a plane has crashed, and that it contains a great deal of cocaine. Guess what? Yep, they find it. Initially wanting nothing to do with it, they later conclude that they ought to try and sell it - and that brings them into conflict with "Bates" (Josh Brolin) who wants to have his cake and eat it! As the pace quickens, there now ensues loads of action-packed shenanigans in and out of the water. It's not the worst, indeed the last twenty minutes (allowing for some fairly obvious CGI) is actually quite an exciting sequence that allows everyone to get wet and bothered - and you'd better be able to tell the difference between a Tiger shark and a tuna fish. Brolin makes for quite a decent baddy, Caan - well he probably ought to be called Caan't, and the two on the poster show us that beautiful people still have a place on the small screen.