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· Year: 2001
· Director: Christian McIntire
· Writers: Christian McIntire, Patrick Phillips
· Cast: Judd Nelson, Janet Gunn
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A group composed of a salvage team, a tabloid journalist and her cameraman, and a paranormal researcher investigate a cruise ship that just reappeared after nearly thirty years in the Bermuda Triangle. When they arrive, they find an empty vessel in startlingly good condition--and discover that although its crew may be gone, the ship is not truly empty.
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About halfway through The Lost Voyage, I realized what it reminded me of: a sixth-season stunt episode of The X-Files called "Triangle," in which Scully and Mulder are both on board an ocean liner that has just emerged from the Bermuda Triangle after being missing for decades. Although they're both on the same ship, they can't contact each other directly--the Triangle has created a timewarp in which Scully is in 1998 but Mulder in 1939, before the ship disappeared. Through innovative directing, including the use of split-screen shots that showed both characters in the same place, but separated by decades, "Triangle" achieved a sort of aware eerieness, in a way like The Shining told from a postmodern perspective.
Though The Lost Voyage may have presented me with good memories, it creates few of its own. Voyage is a mess of a movie that draws its plot details from past ghost movies yet fails to combine them in any coherent fashion. In fact, the ghosts themselves seem an afterthought--we'll occasionally see a spectral figure or a door slammed by an unknown force, but it's never to a point. Voyage is also confused about what the ghosts want--a couple of characters are murdered (one in a way that blatantly recalls Final Destination) for no reason that's ever explained to us, and yet others are permitted to live with little otherworldly interference. Judd Nelson's character, a paranormal researcher haunted by losing his parents on the ship when it disappeared, seems to be in danger at no point during the movie. Nelson, who really doesn't give a bad performance, is saddled with a ridiculous plotline that has his dead(?) father requesting he come to the ship to retrieve . . . well, it's not worth mentioning. If any of The Lost Voyage was supposed to be uplifting, it missed by a wide margin.
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