The Worst Film Ever

SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

People are voting emotionally.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

I remember watching Voyage about 1997, it was on at 1 am on a Thursday morning I believe, and given that I had watched and enjoyed 'Dead Calm' a couple of years earlier, this late night copy of it seemed a watchable fare! Yes I did guess the entire plot after 5 minutes, but I knew it would be entertaining, and even a pretty good thriller to someone who hadn't seen Dead Calm! It was good stuff for a TV movie, nice to see Karen Allen again. and Eric Roberts puts in his greatest performance (until 2013's 'A Talking Cat). The plot has some interesting twists and the locations are scenic, but lets not forget that this film was deliberately made to be a Dead Calm rip off, so just enjoy it and stop grumbling!

This movie is a masterpiece of Eric Roberts, I believe this is his best movie (maybe along with Runaway Train). I think his character truly shines in this movie. Idea of meeting of two worlds evil and good on a place where there is no escape (yacht) has been greatly utilized in the movie. It is full of conflicts between the good (Morgan and Catherine) and bad (Gill and Ronnie) with wonderful dialogs, that will really make you laugh at times. Gil is just so funny stating very very bad remarks and replies to Morgan all throughout the movie, sometimes you can't believe he is so bad. The story is thrilling and graduating all the way till the end of the movie. The plot is simple, yet the quality of the movie is in the dialogs that might shock you and make you smile sometimes. I highly recommend this movie.

While watching this, I found myself wondering: how is it that a good film will make you instantly care what happens to the good guys, but in a lousy film, you watch them for two hours and just hope they drown? My thoughts also drifted to the actors playing the good guys, who have starred in outstanding films with Harrison Ford and now do substandard movies. I couldn't help but notice the Heineken bottles, almost certainly at the request of Hauer. My mind wasn't on the action I guess.

This movie resembles Dead Calm featuring Nicole Kidman and Sam Neill in more than one aspect, but does not have the the chilling nerve and fine acting as the mentioned film. Eric Roberts is acting poorly as usual(is he really Julias brother?), and Rutger Hauer is so out of shape that he does not take off his t-shirt when he takes a swim. It is a mediocre thriller that can help you kill half and hour.