The Big Blue (1988)

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A customer from Newbury, Berkshire, UK , 19/02/2004

This is a truly wonderful film. I loved every minutre of it and made my wife watch it. 'One of the best films I have ever seen' she said! Photography is stunning, music is wonderful and the plot, though gentle, is actually quite gripping. Everyone I know who has seen it has loved it. The girls will adore Jean-Marc Barr ('a truly beautiful man') and the boys will love all the diving and the delicious Rosanna Arquette. Rent it NOW!!!!

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Terrible

jules3000 from glasgow , 24/02/2005

This film is truly the most terrible thing I have watched in ages. The acting was appalling, especially from Rosanna Arquette. The story was too drawn out and there were too many unneccessary scenes in it. Some of the cinematography was good but it was played along with the cheesiest 80's music I think I have ever heard.

If you get anything out of this film it would astound me. If I could use expletives to describe this film, I would. If you have any taste at all don't go near it.

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The Big Blue

traklaw from Strathclyde , 27/10/2003

Luc Besson brings the characters of divers Enzo and Jacque Mayhol to life, in a beautiful and atmospheric insight into the world of Free Diving. Unfortunately, the female lead, played by Rosanna Arquette, is a disappointing and shallow pastiche. The actress struggles to bring a sense of reality to a character who is largely lost in a plot more concerned with the relationships between Enzo and Jacque, and Jacque and the sea.

The love story backdrop never really captures the imagination, but the realistic diving scenes and underwater sequences are superbly filmed and provide a real insight into the insanely dangerous world of Free Diving. Jean Reno turns in a strong performance as the quirky yet heroic diver, Enzo. The characterisation isn’t as strong as his character in Besson’s Leon (The Assassin), but then again the plot is weaker. However, this film is worth renting.

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Refreshing cinema

Thomas Reynolds from UK , 10/07/2004

Luc Besson is fast becoming a movie director who can compete with the like of Ridley scott, and James Cameron, this is one of his much earlier films and it's is extremely good, it is such a refreshing change to to a film with such a unique topic as this one, and it is deeply moving and engaging...agreed the acting is not the best i've ever seen but, the film is so well made that i enjoyed it completely....if you are a real film critic who likes all sort of movies, and you want to be moved, the this is one for you... An early Jean Reno plays a real charecter, and the end is, well you feel it's exactly where it should be !!!

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The Big Blue

traklaw from Strathclyde , 27/10/2003

Luc Besson brings the characters of divers Enzo and Jacque Mayhol to life, in a beautiful and atmospheric insight into the world of Free Diving. Unfortunately, the female lead, played by Rosanna Arquette, is a disappointing and shallow pastiche. The actress struggles to bring a sense of reality to a character who is largely lost in a plot more concerned with the relationships between Enzo and Jacque, and Jacque and the sea.

The love story backdrop never really captures the imagination, but the realistic diving scenes and underwater sequences are superbly filmed and provide a real insight into the insanely dangerous world of Free Diving. Jean Reno turns in a strong performance as the quirky yet heroic diver, Enzo. The characterisation isn’t as strong as his character in Besson’s Leon (The Assassin), but then again the plot is weaker. However, this film is worth renting.

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great

H from burntwood england , 06/11/2004

this was a film i had been waiting to watch after hearing so much about it

it had great scenes and was spectacular and deliverd all it said it would

rent it see for yourself

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