Bella Denton has recently found out that her father has left a boat to her in his will. Feeling euphoric about this she goes out to celebrate and catches 40 winks on the boat after she's done celebrating. While she's sleeping a group of thieves steal her boat, but Bella isn't going to give up her newly acquired gift without a fight...
Conceptually, this film isn't a bad one (even though it seems that it is one in a very long line of Die Hard type clones). In fairness, I don't mind this sort of thing when it's done right, but Stowaway is so boring and so badly put together that it becomes almost laughable...
Not long after Bella (or Stowaway as she's oddly referred to in this film; strange given that she owns the boat and therefore cannot possibly be a stowaway) starts sneaking around the boat she accidentally bumps into the man who is captaining the boat (whom happens to be the same man who showed her round the boat earlier in the day). Despite knowing that this guy is now part of an outfit who are stealing her boat she doesn't question him as to where they are going, why they are stealing the boat or what they are hoping to achieve? Inexplicably she also chooses to trust this man even though he quite clearly betrayed her trust; so why would she choose to trust him now?
Other laughable incidents arise when Bella makes a distress call and the Costguard arrives; despite the fact that the boat thieves look like the shiftiest bunch of people you've even seen and one of them inadvertently leaves their mask lieing around waiting to be discovered (he states that it is a halloween mask even though nobody would wear such a mask for halloween). The Coastguard chooses to believe this (not because it makes sense, but because it is convenient for the narrative). Bella chooses to make her presence known when the Coastguard leaves rather than alerting them when they were there. Also when Bella makes the distress call surely it would have been relayed to the Coastguard that a female had put the distress call in so why ask if there was a female on board? Unless it was to try and catch them out, but this clearly wasn't the case here. To me there was just too much here that didn't make sense and the fact that the film had no real thrilling moments or any kind of intensity about it also made it something of a dud.
I'm trying to look for positives with this film....erm... hang on...give me a minute...err oh yeah it was short and that's about it.
Conceptually, this film isn't a bad one (even though it seems that it is one in a very long line of Die Hard type clones). In fairness, I don't mind this sort of thing when it's done right, but Stowaway is so boring and so badly put together that it becomes almost laughable...
Not long after Bella (or Stowaway as she's oddly referred to in this film; strange given that she owns the boat and therefore cannot possibly be a stowaway) starts sneaking around the boat she accidentally bumps into the man who is captaining the boat (whom happens to be the same man who showed her round the boat earlier in the day). Despite knowing that this guy is now part of an outfit who are stealing her boat she doesn't question him as to where they are going, why they are stealing the boat or what they are hoping to achieve? Inexplicably she also chooses to trust this man even though he quite clearly betrayed her trust; so why would she choose to trust him now?
Other laughable incidents arise when Bella makes a distress call and the Costguard arrives; despite the fact that the boat thieves look like the shiftiest bunch of people you've even seen and one of them inadvertently leaves their mask lieing around waiting to be discovered (he states that it is a halloween mask even though nobody would wear such a mask for halloween). The Coastguard chooses to believe this (not because it makes sense, but because it is convenient for the narrative). Bella chooses to make her presence known when the Coastguard leaves rather than alerting them when they were there. Also when Bella makes the distress call surely it would have been relayed to the Coastguard that a female had put the distress call in so why ask if there was a female on board? Unless it was to try and catch them out, but this clearly wasn't the case here. To me there was just too much here that didn't make sense and the fact that the film had no real thrilling moments or any kind of intensity about it also made it something of a dud.
I'm trying to look for positives with this film....erm... hang on...give me a minute...err oh yeah it was short and that's about it.