Review of The Big Blue (1988) by Krzystof K — 10 Feb 2016

Luc Besson overindulges all over your face in this overlong consideration about what is better, dreams or reality, framed (very nearly incidentally) by the sport of free diving. Jean Reno dominates the work which includes many beautiful underwater scenes, particularly those including dolphins.

But it is too long, and poor Rosanna Arquette is made to portray reality, at first beautiful but by turns nagging and annoying, for so long that there's really no question which way Besson's hero is gonna go.