Director: Luc Besson
This film is epic, sprawling, meditative, and tranquil. So normally I would love a film like this, but unfortunately, Luc Besson just does not have complete control over his epic narrative and it stumbles frequently. It is not a focused movie thematically or narratively. It tries to be a movie about a man who has a loving obsession with the sea, and a movie about a lifelong rivalry between two great swimmers all at the same time, and there's also something about dolphins.
Much of the film is touching and quite interesting, especially when the movie focuses on the swimmer who is obsessed with the sea and how that obsession makes him a very unsociable human being. That situation makes the romantic subplot of the film quite unique. But the film loses focus eventually. I still greatly admire The Big Blue because what it does right it does very right, but it is not a movie I can say I am a fan of due to its inconsistency. But I will never discourage any filmmaker from trying to make a movie that is this epic and tries this hard. Next time, try a bit harder.
Grade: C+
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