If you have seen a disaster film of the 70's, you know the drill. You get like a half hour to 45 minutes to get to know the cast and to build emotional attachments too. Then you get a sequence where disaster strikes and some people get to show off skills as they try to escape the peril. In some circumstances there is a bit more at the close to wrap things up. Well, this one, you get five minutes to get to know the characters, maybe a ten minute storm and then you get to watch the people drift along. The film really should have been called drift, because that is the main focus of the film besides some fishing, dog eating and light cannibalism...
So we see people on a glass bottom boat, then people in a plane which has the most garish looking seats imaginable and some sailors at sea. A cyclone hits stranding the glass bottom boat, crashing the plane and causing the sailors to abandon their boat for a life raft. For reason unknown, as the plane touches down, every seat on the thing just detaches from the floor, one would think they were not even attached but just sitting there! Soon, everyone meets up and starts dying of thirst and hunger and this is the rest of the film until the sharks come and say, "Hey, we are here to add some action to all the drifting, nom, nom, nom!"
A lot of people in this film I have seen before. If you have ever seen Cardona's Bermuda Triangle there were at least three guys from that in this. I say at least three, mainly because this characters are so indistinct beyond executive who looks like the cowardly lion, uni brow kid from Bermuda and Hugo Stiglitz and Garcia also from the Bermuda Cardona film. Suffice to say, do not want to travel with Hugo and Garcia anywhere because it will end in disaster!
So, the film could have been better with some more action or perhaps another Cyclone. As it is, it has some entertaining moments, but you are not attached to these characters as they are all just a bit unlikable and weird! The conclusion is very hard to discern too, as I am unclear who got eaten and who survived when the planes arrived and it ended in a bloody mess. Meanwhile, The Cyclone gets top billing and is in the film only for a bit...must have a good agent.
So we see people on a glass bottom boat, then people in a plane which has the most garish looking seats imaginable and some sailors at sea. A cyclone hits stranding the glass bottom boat, crashing the plane and causing the sailors to abandon their boat for a life raft. For reason unknown, as the plane touches down, every seat on the thing just detaches from the floor, one would think they were not even attached but just sitting there! Soon, everyone meets up and starts dying of thirst and hunger and this is the rest of the film until the sharks come and say, "Hey, we are here to add some action to all the drifting, nom, nom, nom!"
A lot of people in this film I have seen before. If you have ever seen Cardona's Bermuda Triangle there were at least three guys from that in this. I say at least three, mainly because this characters are so indistinct beyond executive who looks like the cowardly lion, uni brow kid from Bermuda and Hugo Stiglitz and Garcia also from the Bermuda Cardona film. Suffice to say, do not want to travel with Hugo and Garcia anywhere because it will end in disaster!
So, the film could have been better with some more action or perhaps another Cyclone. As it is, it has some entertaining moments, but you are not attached to these characters as they are all just a bit unlikable and weird! The conclusion is very hard to discern too, as I am unclear who got eaten and who survived when the planes arrived and it ended in a bloody mess. Meanwhile, The Cyclone gets top billing and is in the film only for a bit...must have a good agent.