By Daniel Jolley
There’s just something regarding ghost ship movies that I cannot resist, so when I spotted Lost Voyage, I had to watch it. The fact that the movie is a straight-to-video/DVD release I had never heard of before made no difference. Judd Nelson was a intimate name from the 1980s, and the presence of Lance Henriksen from TV’s Millennium series seemed to bode well. It’s rather an interesting movie, not inevitably in a good way. There are a few moments of decent suspense, and the acting actually isn’t all that bad, yet the movie seemed to pose questions it never intended to answer, and the particular effects are just plain weird.
As the movie opens, we see the beginning and ignominious end of the final voyage of the cruise ship Corona Queen in 1972; someplace in the vicinity of the Bermuda Triangle, the ship disappeared into an unexplained atmospheric phenomenon. No sign of the ship was ever found � until now. After more than twenty-five years, the ship has of a sudden been spotted by a fishing vessel off the coast of Bermuda. This news is particularly interesting for Aaron Brown (Judd Nelson), whose father and step-mother were amongst the passengers of the ill-fated cruise. He has obsessively studied the Bermuda Triangle ever since, and now he finds himself one of the original humane beings to set foot on the mysterious ship in over a quarter of a century. With him are Dana Elway (Janet Gunn), the star of a paranormal based news show, and her crew, alongside a trio of salvage men led by David Shaw (Henriksen). They discover the ship to be in in an outstanding manner good condition, but no sign of crew or passengers is to be found. As you might expect, bad things start out happening that undertake to be creepy but never in truth are, and the dwindling number of persons on board find themselves in danger of heading back into whatsoever claimed the ship way back in 1972.
The visions that a great deal of of the characters see on board the ship supposedly represent their biggest fears or most disturbing memories, but they don’t genuinely play that well. We are treated to a heap of flashbacks and mysterious new visitations by Aaron’s long-dead father, but none of these personal stories seems at all primary in the end. I do have to say that I was enjoyably astonished by the performance of Scarlet Chorvat as the younger reporter scheming to take Dana Elway’s job, and her storyline in truth seemed to make a little bit of sense. The genuinely weird thing regarding Lost Voyage, though, is it is particular effects. Things aren’t actually that bad until the closing scenes of the movie, when CGI animation of a sudden runs amuck. Many of the climactic scenes look like the kinds of animation you would see in a computer or gaming solace game; in a game, they would be impressive, but in a movie they are rather disappointingly fake; I can’t recall ever seeing another movie wherein the animation of a sudden took on such a peculiar look.
The real source of weakness in the movie, though, is the plot. Too a lot of story parts are introduced for no evident reason, closely not one thing regarding the fate of the ghost liner is revealed, and the end of the movie is rather disappointing. To make matters worse, the two epilogue sequences make very little sense to me and only serve to reinforce the failed chances that seem to define Lost Voyage. Despite all of these problems, though, I can not say I in truth hated the film. It had sufficient potential to keep me interested, but a lot of that potential was wasted in the end.
9 of 9 persons found the following review helpful.
Unfairly rediculed ^^
By C. M. Sharrah
As far as the ‘B-horror’ genre goes, it’s *extremely* difficult to get an edge-ways past the blockbuster hits. Lost Voyage is a perfective example. In galore ways it plays out a lot like a ‘season primiere’ of an X-Files episode or something of that nature. It has the feel of a TV movie, but overall the acting, set design, cinematography, and *especially* sound were very well invented and very much attributed to a great, and spooky, envioronment. I think people spend far too much time for the duration of the movie looking for things they may insult that they miss what was going on, and it’s their loss in this case.
It has an unsettling level of eerieness to it, similar to House on Haunted Hill (N. Castle). Many scenes left you silent and pondering…what…the…heck…was that? If it wasn’t for the splendid sound, it in all probability would’ve lost that feel.
CGIs are used rather frequently, but they aren’t the dollar-and-dime calibre work you see on made-for-TV movies. They are rather professional looking and very believable — again, if you just sit back, relax, and receive pleasure from the show.
All-and-all, splendid movie for any individual who enjoys ‘isolation suspense’ (as I very much do).
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Almost An Intelligent Thriller
By K. Fontenot
“Lost Voyage,” starring Judd Nelson and Lance Henriksen, is a very well done B-movie. It isn’t rather as good as “Ghostship,” which is similar since both are in regards to a cruise ship that vanishes and then pops up a few years later with a few “stranded” passengers. Both films feature a shady salvage crew as well. That’s regarding where the comparings stop. “Lost Voyage” in truth manages to be very gratifying for the bulk of it is duration. However, the ending, like so a lot of before me have stated, is just a little bit goofy and off-center.
Nelson plays a likeable guy who is obsessed with the Bermuda Triangle and the “Corona Queen,” the ship that of a sudden pops up out of nowhere and carried his parents to their demise back in 1972. He uses a great deal of neat little appliances to track paranormal action on the ship in hopes of finding out more with regards to his parents’ deaths and to aid a news team hoping to bank in on the spooky cruise ship. Lance Henriksen, for a limitless time a staple of magnificent B-cinema, turns in a fantasti performance as the captain of the salvage crew hoping to make a fast and fat buck off of the wreck. The rest of the cast is comprised of unknowns who all manage to turn in gorgeous good performances.
Things commence to go bump in the night aboard the wreck, and the crew comes face-to-face with an abundance of creepy images and nightmarish visions that are intended to scare the viewer but don’t rather make the cut. As the body count rises, the survivors determine to get off of the ship as quick as they can. This results in more deaths and an ending that just falls terribly flat.
The particular effects are hokey at times, peculiarly in the ending, but they hold up well thanks to a in the right manner written script with a reasonable plot.
If you enjoyed “Ghost Ship,” you might want to give this flick a try. To be honest, though, I’d just wait until this comes on the SciFi channel before I’d buy it. It’s worthy of a rental. After that, the buying is up to you.
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