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.
28 September 1957, Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France
22 August 1930, Khartoum, Sudan
19 April 1943, Gladbeck, Germany
30 July 1948, Casablanca, French Protectorate of Morocco [now Morocco]
18 March 1959, Paris, France
9 January 1956, Glendale, California, USA
18 August 1953, Rome, Lazio, Italy
27 September 1960, Bitburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
3 June 1929, Le Havre, Seine-Inférieure [now Seine-Maritime], France
October 16, 2012
A hypnotically beautiful and metaphysical delight.
November 06, 2005
One of a kind movie.
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.
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.
January 01, 2000
What he and his writers have cooked up defies our patience.
March 26, 2009
Besson fatally misjudges the cinematic interest of his theme.
January 01, 2000
Besson is no master storyteller.
November 16, 2001
The subtext is easy to follow; it's the screenplay that's impossible.
October 16, 2012
This simple tale of love, friendship and the sea lingers in the mind long after the final credits.
January 01, 2000
No matter which version you see, the story doesn't really make sense.
October 16, 2012
Such a total disaster that it would have been an act of kindness for all concerned to have never released it.
March 10, 2003
The Big Blue soaks up the big screen in a splendor that's meant to be seen.

