Two women and one man at sea. What could go wrong? Apparently everything. Grizzled Jurgen Prochnow is about aa appealing as a blob fish, and to imagine him sharing a small cruise ship with the likes of Patsy Kensit and Elizabeth Hurley is about as realistic as the Titanic raising, but what the writer say goes so the audience for this film is supposed to believe it. Kensit and Hurley are seen at the very beginning performing a rather trashy musical number where one of them strips down to nothing, and then that's after one has slapped the other for saying something they didn't like. So even them being together away from civilization isn't too believable either, but some script writers seem to believe that just because it's written on the page, the audience will believe that it's so.
I'll give this film credit for being a handsome looking production, but the three stars have absolutely no chemistry, and frankly, I didn't care for any of them so their adventure for me was an exercise in futility. Spending nearly two hours with these characters was a real chore. There's all sorts of drama on board, and as the affair brews between all three, the plot twists just get more bizarre. Pronchow is a good character actor, but outside of leading roles in character parts like "Das Boot", he has limited appeal, and he's certainly no romantic figure, becoming very violent and brutish. This tries desperately to be a complex romantic saga, but outside of the photography and location footage, I found this cumbersome and often boring to watch.
I'll give this film credit for being a handsome looking production, but the three stars have absolutely no chemistry, and frankly, I didn't care for any of them so their adventure for me was an exercise in futility. Spending nearly two hours with these characters was a real chore. There's all sorts of drama on board, and as the affair brews between all three, the plot twists just get more bizarre. Pronchow is a good character actor, but outside of leading roles in character parts like "Das Boot", he has limited appeal, and he's certainly no romantic figure, becoming very violent and brutish. This tries desperately to be a complex romantic saga, but outside of the photography and location footage, I found this cumbersome and often boring to watch.