On the grounds that I am going to spoiler this movie totally, I'll start with the summary. It is a psychological suspense / mystery / horror with supernatural and possibly science fiction overtones. Of its sort it isn't bad at all (although there are, for sure, unanswered questions at the end), and I quite enjoyed it.
I'm now going to reveal the entire plot from start to finish so, if you're likely to want to see it and be surprised by its surprises, STOP READING NOW.
Jess (Melissa George) is a single mother to an autistic son. She is invited out sailing with a number of friends, although she seems in a very strange frame of mind. A freak squall capsizes the yacht, but they are picked up by a deserted ocean liner. They are attacked and killed, one by one, by a mystery assailant. Jess is the last one and ends up fighting the assailant who, she discovers, is herself. No sooner has she managed to tip the assailant into the sea then the capsized boat is sighted, she and her friends come on board, and she realises that the cycle is starting again. After trying to break the cycle she realises that it has been going on for quite some time (there is a particularly horrifying revelation which, unfortunately, is given away by the trailer) and that fully embracing her part in it is the only way to get back to her son. On being washed to shore she returns home just before she leaves for the sailing trip. Realising how cruel she is being to her son, she savagely murders her original self, but then crashes her car, killing her son. So, of course, her only way of saving him is to go on the sailing trip...
All this is quite good fun and, if it is all taking place in her head because she is a complete nutjob, then fair enough. However, if the events are supposed to be actual, then the sudden squall and deserted ocean liner need some explaining which they never get. More importantly, Jess actually has sequential continuity of memory except when it doesn't suit the plot (this isn't her first time on the liner, yet it seems only vaguely familiar: other times she remembers exactly what happened earlier). This isn't a fatal flaw, but it slightly spoils what is otherwise a fairly well thought out unspooling of similar and repeated events.
But overall, this is a fun excursion into the weird.
I'm now going to reveal the entire plot from start to finish so, if you're likely to want to see it and be surprised by its surprises, STOP READING NOW.
Jess (Melissa George) is a single mother to an autistic son. She is invited out sailing with a number of friends, although she seems in a very strange frame of mind. A freak squall capsizes the yacht, but they are picked up by a deserted ocean liner. They are attacked and killed, one by one, by a mystery assailant. Jess is the last one and ends up fighting the assailant who, she discovers, is herself. No sooner has she managed to tip the assailant into the sea then the capsized boat is sighted, she and her friends come on board, and she realises that the cycle is starting again. After trying to break the cycle she realises that it has been going on for quite some time (there is a particularly horrifying revelation which, unfortunately, is given away by the trailer) and that fully embracing her part in it is the only way to get back to her son. On being washed to shore she returns home just before she leaves for the sailing trip. Realising how cruel she is being to her son, she savagely murders her original self, but then crashes her car, killing her son. So, of course, her only way of saving him is to go on the sailing trip...
All this is quite good fun and, if it is all taking place in her head because she is a complete nutjob, then fair enough. However, if the events are supposed to be actual, then the sudden squall and deserted ocean liner need some explaining which they never get. More importantly, Jess actually has sequential continuity of memory except when it doesn't suit the plot (this isn't her first time on the liner, yet it seems only vaguely familiar: other times she remembers exactly what happened earlier). This isn't a fatal flaw, but it slightly spoils what is otherwise a fairly well thought out unspooling of similar and repeated events.
But overall, this is a fun excursion into the weird.