USA 2001. Director: Christian McIntire
Cast: Judd Nelson, Lance Henriksen, Janet Gunn
Judd Nelson plays a guy, Aaron, who when he was a little boy saw his parents step onto a cruiser only to never see them again because the ship then got lost in the Bermuda Triangle. 26 years later the boat shows up again empty, right out of the blue. No one takes any notice except a TV-reporter in bad need of a scoop. Aaron is asked by the reporter (Janet Gunn) to go back to the ship and together with three salty sailors he decides to do so. You all see, Aaron is also a sparetime ghostbuster and he thinks the boat represents a doorway to hell.
Lost Voyage hasn't much going for it, it's just like the damn ship. Totally lost and empty. The resque team doesn't seem particularly anxious to learn what happened to all the passengers or seeking any natural or scientific explanation first. They go straight to the supernatural version. Much more likely. And, after being plagued by nightmares for 26 damn years, why doesn't Aaron show more interest in what happened to his parents? He's more interested in his damn equipment. Only when he is just about to escape from the boat at the end of the film does he look into the cabin where his parents slept the night they disappeared, the cabin being still intact as if nothing has ever happened. Neither is much done with idea of some evil force causing people's worst fears to come alive in the form of hallucinations. People are just being killed at random (although creatively) or they simply disappear only to turn up again in animated form at the end as some kind of demons. It's an irritating mess done worse by cheap digital effects and an overuse of obvious blue-screens.
On the low-rent casting front Judd Nelson looks cool in long hair, beard and glasses (looks like Peter Jackson) but he is so bad it's not even funny. Frank Black... sorry, Lance Henriksen (who is back doing C-movies again since the Millenium TV-series is no more) is his usual self but unfortunately he is blessed with such awfully corny dialogue that he comes across as doing a parody of himself. Janet Gunn was in Carnosaur 3 and Jean Claude Van Damme's The Quest and nuff said of her. And the movie. Avoid it.
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