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The Big Blue

Adventure. Drama French Jacques Mayol (Jean-Marc Barr) and italian Enzo Maiorca (Jean Reno) have known each other for a long time. Their friendship started in their childhood days in the mediterranean. They were not real friends in these days, but there was something they both loved and used to do the whole day long: diving. One day Jacques' father, who was a diver too, died in the mediterranean sea. After that incident Enzo and Jacques lost contact. ... [+]
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United StatesUnited States
Slant
Slant
"Besson's deep-diving melodrama stresses its own depth-emotional, artistic, oceanic"  POS
United KingdomUnited Kingdom
Empire
Empire
"This simple tale of love, friendship and the sea lingers in the mind long after the final credits." POS
United StatesUnited States
Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
"Such a total disaster that it would have been an act of kindness for all concerned to have never released it." NEG
United StatesUnited States
The New York Times
The New York Times
"The film's undersea footage has a powerful otherworldly quality, much as if it were unfolding in outer space, as indeed it might be."  POS
United StatesUnited States
Variety
Variety
"Besson fatally misjudges the cinematic interest of his theme." POS
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