Review of Dead Calm

Dead Calm (1989)
5/10
Oh, please....
18 August 2005
Warning: Spoilers
Maybe I have seen too many movies. I get tired of seeing people do the most absurd things to keep the story going, like the teen-age girl who continues into a house at night after a human head has just rolled out the front door and stopped at her feet.

This time, we have a man, understandably concerned about his wife's frail mental/emotional state, leaving her on a boat with a guy he doesn't know and has every reason to suspect might be unbalanced or at least very strange. Who would do such a thing? 'Course, he did lock the guy in a room with a 79-cent door bolt. And, on it goes.

The film is technically superb, well acted and directed, etc., but the story has some major holes. Good film if you are good at suspending logical thinking or at least willing to forgive very unlikely behavior.
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