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The Big Blue
The movie depicts the friendship and sporting rivalry between two leading contemporary champion deep sea divers (who dive without aqualungs) who culminates in a series of free-diving competitions.
3 June 1929, Le Havre, Seine-Inférieure [now Seine-Maritime], France
12 February 1936, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
19 April 1943, Gladbeck, Germany
9 January 1956, Glendale, California, USA
21 April 1954, Paris, France
January 01, 2000
No matter which version you see, the story doesn't really make sense.January 01, 2000
Besson is no master storyteller.November 16, 2001
The subtext is easy to follow; it's the screenplay that's impossible.March 23, 2001
Is an extra 50 minutes of bad footage reason enough to re-release an already problematic movie? I wouldn't think so.November 06, 2005
One of a kind movie.October 16, 2012
This simple tale of love, friendship and the sea lingers in the mind long after the final credits.March 26, 2009
Besson fatally misjudges the cinematic interest of his theme.March 10, 2003
The Big Blue soaks up the big screen in a splendor that's meant to be seen.May 20, 2003
The film's undersea footage has a powerful otherworldly quality, much as if it were unfolding in outer space, as indeed it might be.January 01, 2000
What he and his writers have cooked up defies our patience.October 16, 2012
Such a total disaster that it would have been an act of kindness for all concerned to have never released it.October 16, 2012
A hypnotically beautiful and metaphysical delight.