No pun intended - I have to admit I had higher hopes for this. And underneath all the ... well craziness, there is at least a decent movie in there. But as others already have attested .. it is quite messy, it is quite convoluted to say the least. And yet I do find something appealing in here - also I have been accused of rating better than I should.
One of the biggest shockers is in the trailer, but they had to sell the movie somehow of course. And talking about that, I reckon the trailer was suggesting something different than what we got. Even a game does this way better than the movie did (similar story that is - "Ghost ship" as a big theme .. talking about Men of Medan of course).
Still the movie has some shocking moments and some really bloody violence to go with that. There are glimpses of genius here and there ... but it all sinks with the madness (see what I did there?) ... the time hopping adds to the confusion - which again you can be like me and say it is ok or fine or even makes this interesting ... but it feels like this has been chopped and edited and re-written too many times. It may have made more sense to do a limited series with all the stuff they tried to cram in there! It is so packed you wouldn't be able to find any stowaway who managed to get on board.
Try to sit back, free your mind, don't think about how illogical some (much?) of the stuff is and let the visuals take over ... there is a reason for all this ... and maybe the ending is good ... and maybe it isn't ... chances are you will be laughing as maniacly as one of the main characters does ...
One of the biggest shockers is in the trailer, but they had to sell the movie somehow of course. And talking about that, I reckon the trailer was suggesting something different than what we got. Even a game does this way better than the movie did (similar story that is - "Ghost ship" as a big theme .. talking about Men of Medan of course).
Still the movie has some shocking moments and some really bloody violence to go with that. There are glimpses of genius here and there ... but it all sinks with the madness (see what I did there?) ... the time hopping adds to the confusion - which again you can be like me and say it is ok or fine or even makes this interesting ... but it feels like this has been chopped and edited and re-written too many times. It may have made more sense to do a limited series with all the stuff they tried to cram in there! It is so packed you wouldn't be able to find any stowaway who managed to get on board.
Try to sit back, free your mind, don't think about how illogical some (much?) of the stuff is and let the visuals take over ... there is a reason for all this ... and maybe the ending is good ... and maybe it isn't ... chances are you will be laughing as maniacly as one of the main characters does ...