Dead Calm

Normally I wouldn't summarize a movie with one word, but this one deserves an exception: stupid.

Great thriller. It’s quiet and atmospheric. Stranded at sea with a psycho makes for a great movie if done right. This is done right.

The best at-sea thriller ever made! So intense. And all the actors did phenomenal work here

I saw this movie when it came out, it was I'm thinking eerie at best and a whole lot of damn. If Ever get to free, I'll definitely watch it......

A sort of psychological thriller with over the top acting and a strange plot. A couple, trying to recover from the death of their baby in a car accident, decide to take a trip in their boat. They eventually found someone else in the sea. What follows is a sort of all over the place story - horror borderline camp. The three actors simply don’t blend in together. it seems that each actor is reading their own script and acting for their own camera. In fact, they have a lot of scenes in which they do not cross paths… Billy Zane is a bit over the top. what’s his character supposed to be anyway?

A solid and tight thriller. Billy Zane is the key here as he is totally believable as this kind of psychopath.

Love it! My fav kind of movie. Small cast, lots of suspense.

It's not a vacation anymore, it's a voyage into fear The creator of the Road Warrior and the director Phillip Noyce of 'Salt' and 'Catch a Fire' starring Nicole Kidman, Billy Zane, and Sam Neill based on the novel by Charles Williams A couple Rae and John go on a boat trip to overcome the loss of their son Then they come across a stranger named Hughie stranded out to sea, he boards their yacht claiming the other passengers he traveled with died of food poisoning But the more time this couple spends with him the more they begin to question the validity of his story and perhaps he might be unstable This is definitely a slow pot boiler for sure Barely any music and we spend a great deal of time on these boats It was just alright but the three leads work really well especially Nicole Kidman who's essentially the main hero going from dependent to resourceful

The story twist was so simple that was so effective. Meeting a stranger at nowhere is predictable.

Zane was a great bad guy - but I'm not sure what his back story really was. Dead Calm missed his motive and also forgot that Kidman and her hubby were grieving a dead child.