You could build an entire subdivision with the wooden dialogue and acting. You could tell when folks were going to die, and 'why' according to the whacked out 'logic' of the screenplay.
Did I mention the thing is racist? That Hispanics are only shown as waiters and stowaways and such? That they ALL DIE? Oh, and then there's the way the audience was laughing when folks died. Admittedly, one goes out like Wily Coyote. But the other guy is convulsing and drowning, and I admit it, it looked ridiculous.
Poor Kurt Russell, he was never much of an actor. But here, with some of the most awful dialogue, he flounders.
Richard Dryfuss, also just there for a paycheck, does a fairly good job with what is a horrible part. He plays the middle-aged gay guy who is pitied by all his friends because his partner found someone else and deserted him to this disaster. He's doing like a good gay man, and committing suicide when he sees the wave coming.
The rest of the movie, he's just a plot device. He comes on to the Hispanic waiter, only to have to kill the man to preserve his own life. Then he meets the stowaway the waiter was 'trading' passage for sex with. She, of course, has a big target painted on her as well.
I suppose you were supposed to feel less bad about killing the Waiter because he was exploiting the young woman. But the folks who are most exploited are the audience.
The lame script, by Mark Protosevich (The Cell and nothing since that 2000 film) is a seething mass of hatred for humanity in general.
If you like movies were non-whites are marginalized (the only black person on the cruise ship appears to be poor Andre Braugher) before they're killed off. If you really love scripts so lame that even the characters get frustrated with the stupid situations they're put in, then run off and see this monstrosity, otherwise VOTE NO. Save yourself $10.50 and buy the original on DVD.
Did I mention the thing is racist? That Hispanics are only shown as waiters and stowaways and such? That they ALL DIE? Oh, and then there's the way the audience was laughing when folks died. Admittedly, one goes out like Wily Coyote. But the other guy is convulsing and drowning, and I admit it, it looked ridiculous.
Poor Kurt Russell, he was never much of an actor. But here, with some of the most awful dialogue, he flounders.
Richard Dryfuss, also just there for a paycheck, does a fairly good job with what is a horrible part. He plays the middle-aged gay guy who is pitied by all his friends because his partner found someone else and deserted him to this disaster. He's doing like a good gay man, and committing suicide when he sees the wave coming.
The rest of the movie, he's just a plot device. He comes on to the Hispanic waiter, only to have to kill the man to preserve his own life. Then he meets the stowaway the waiter was 'trading' passage for sex with. She, of course, has a big target painted on her as well.
I suppose you were supposed to feel less bad about killing the Waiter because he was exploiting the young woman. But the folks who are most exploited are the audience.
The lame script, by Mark Protosevich (The Cell and nothing since that 2000 film) is a seething mass of hatred for humanity in general.
If you like movies were non-whites are marginalized (the only black person on the cruise ship appears to be poor Andre Braugher) before they're killed off. If you really love scripts so lame that even the characters get frustrated with the stupid situations they're put in, then run off and see this monstrosity, otherwise VOTE NO. Save yourself $10.50 and buy the original on DVD.