It's not another day at the beach.

On a motorboat traveling off the coast of Honolulu, Hawaii, someone is seen dumping two large containers into the ocean and then going to meet with a few guys in business suits expecting to get paid. But because he dumped the containers to avoid detection by the police, and altered the schedule of those container shipments to the customer, he is killed.The next day, Sebastian (Chris Carmack) and his girlfriend Dani (Laura Vandervoort) are dive surfing with a model. We learn that the group owns a snorkeling business that rents out equipment for clients (mostly mainland tourists). Sebastian doesn't want to do this line of work forever. For Sebastian, there are countless treasures in the ocean that he has been in search of for a long time but one that he has been searching for four years is the Spanish ship San Cristobal, which sank somewhere near the North Reef and is rumored to have sunk in the ocean with a lot of treasure. Sebastian believes that if he finds this treasure, this will give him and his girlfriend the opportunity to live a better life.Sebastian hangs out with his friend and employee Mace (Michael Graziadei) and his girlfriend Kimi (Mircea Monroe), Dani's best friend, who are a couple that have a difficult relationship because Mace tends to flirt with other women. While Mace and Kimi have a crazy relationship, Sebastian and Dani are very much in love.While at work, they are visited by Carlton (David Anders) and Azra (Marsha Thomason), a couple who wants to hire them for diving in the North Reef for a week because they are looking for the San Cristobal. Of course, Sebastian has been trying for several years to find it but Carlton happens to have a map which may lead them to the treasure. So, both Sebastian and Dani willingly agree to help the couple. The four go on various diving expeditions to find treasure.Over the next few days, we get to see some of the beach life as all six individuals enjoy the beach. Dani, Kimi, Sebastian, and Mace get involved in separate beach volleyball competitions. Sebastian and Mace go against their main diving competitors, Avery (Rand Holdren) who dates a girl named Kelsey (Audrina Patridge) who loves to lecture him when he gets into trouble by messing around with women.While at a nightclub, a random guy hits on the women and grabs the arm of Azra, who quickly puts him in a headlock. This raises the first red flag for Dani who becomes suspicious that Azra and Carlton are not who they claim to be.The following day, we learn that Carlton is not really looking for the San Cristobal. He actually helps high-paying clients smuggle drugs, and other contraband stuff and treasure to other locations. Both Carlton and Azra tell Sebastian and Dani that if they help them find the two containers, they will earn $500,000. Also, we learn that if Carlton doesn't find the containers in a week, the men whom hired him will kill him. The reason why he is willing to pay them a lot of money is part of an apology because the men who hired him know the names of Sebastian and Dani and their lives are in danger too. So, now both Sebastian and Dani are forced to help Carlton and Azra find the two containers but while they are at sea, Avery takes notice and he starts looking to find whatever they are looking for.With their lives threatened, Dani convinces Sebastian that they must look to see what is in those containers and why their lives are being threatened. Something terrible could be in those containers and that they need to check them without bringing Carlton and Azra along.Thus, the two take their boat out to sea late at night to dive and see what those containers are. What they find in the containers are not treasure but a bomb. When they return from their boat after the dive, they are greeted by Carlton and Azra, who have been hiding in their boat and are ready to kill them. Carlton tells him that in container one there is the casing and in container two there is a nuclear warhead. One without the other is useless but together it creates a powerful weapon. Their "clients" goal is to create a second Pearl Harbor by detonating the nuclear weapon in Hololulu and thus place the blame on a shadowy terrorist group to justify rallying the USA public to support the need to continue the war on terrorism.Dani jumps off the boat to try and get help. She is found in the morning one mile off shore and is put in the hospital. Azra arrives at the hospital where she tries to kill her but Dani runs away and a chase ensues.Meanwhile, Sebastian and Mace try to bring up the containers for Carlton. Mace purposely messes up and Kimi is killed. Enraged, Sebastian and Mace rebel, ending with Carlton and his bodyguard dead. Dani outruns Azra and calls the police to report the situation. However, Azra escapes and reports back to her boss of the failure of their job. But Azra kills her boss so she can disappear again and not have the police, nor her powerful business clients, come looking for her. Dani, Sebastian, and Mace reunite in which the police arrive and manage to confiscate and defuse the bomb. They then have Kimi's funeral.The movie concludes six months later where Sebastian, Dani, and Mace find the San Cristobal wreck and with the gold they find, they finally buy their someday boat.

Orig. title:

Into the Blue 2: The Reef

Genre: Thriller, Action, Adventure

Directed by: Stephen Herek

Starring: Chris Carmack (Sebastian), Laura Vandervoort (Dani), Marsha Thomason (Azra), Michael Graziadei (Mace), Mircea Monroe (Kimi), Audrina Patridge (Kelsey)

Screenplay: Mitchell Kapner

Country: USA

Year: 2009

Score: 47 %