The movie starts very well, and the longer it goes, the worse it gets. The beginning is excellent: a diverse team, modern pirates, a tense psychological situation in a tight space, intrigue, a little humor. All this looked very decent, in theory, the whole film could be made about modern piracy, without any monsters, and it would be a worthy thriller for example about the struggle for leadership in a tight space. Didn't happen... First, a ship of heroes in the open ocean runs into a boat. Besides the fact that the probability of an accidental collision of ships in the ocean is about the same as in space, do they not see where they are going? Then there were monsters, but the movie still looked fine until they were shown and the characters caught the atmosphere of mysticism on an empty ship. And then the nonsense begins, even by the standards of the 90s: a whole crowd of characters, all of them are eaten, eaten, eaten, very quickly draining from the film all potentially interesting characters and all situations that could be associated with them, removing first psychology, then the struggle for leadership, then dialogue and finally meaning in general. There remains only a stupid bloody senseless thrash, so many corpses and blood I have never seen anywhere else, their number is no longer frightening and does not create tension, it is so senselessly huge that it is simply disrespectful to the viewer, feels like a slap in the face. Modest subtile shipowner suddenly goes crazy, begins to aim at the heroes. He built a ship worth half a billion dollars to destroy it and get insurance, because they say to use it for its intended purpose, riding the rich, unprofitable. How do real cruise ships sail? The hero lets a whole automatic queue into it - and does not get into it. Not a single bullet... In the end, it is just a stupid cartoon - a completely ridiculous monster, escaping on a scooter from an explosion and the epilogue finally reveals itself to the viewer "Guys, we fucked you all, you watched all this for the sake of trolling." For the first time in my life, I thought I'd bet 8 and I'd bet 2.
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