This movie has two things going for it, and most of those things are found around chest height on Jessica Alba. The diving scenes are rather beautiful, and one cannot deny the beautification increasing effect of Alba in a bikini swimming by the camera.
But after a while the movie devolves into A1 formula action. Not necessarily a bad thing, and it's kind of well done, except when the fight sequences show three (or was it two?) fights between different people cut together. I for one could not follow the events on the screen.
All that however fades into insignificance beside the monumental stupidity displayed by the movie's hero, Jared. He makes one awful decision after another - alienating his girlfriend while failing to inform her she's threatened by a gangster, giving up the secret treasure for no good reason, abandoning said girlfriend to dive into the sea with his hands tied behind his back to randomly destroy the drug shipment that might keep the gangster happy and so on. It goes beyond stupidity into absurdity and one is left to wonder if the movie is supposed to take place in this world and if its makers understand the basic idea of characters the audience can identify with.
But after a while the movie devolves into A1 formula action. Not necessarily a bad thing, and it's kind of well done, except when the fight sequences show three (or was it two?) fights between different people cut together. I for one could not follow the events on the screen.
All that however fades into insignificance beside the monumental stupidity displayed by the movie's hero, Jared. He makes one awful decision after another - alienating his girlfriend while failing to inform her she's threatened by a gangster, giving up the secret treasure for no good reason, abandoning said girlfriend to dive into the sea with his hands tied behind his back to randomly destroy the drug shipment that might keep the gangster happy and so on. It goes beyond stupidity into absurdity and one is left to wonder if the movie is supposed to take place in this world and if its makers understand the basic idea of characters the audience can identify with.