Post by stefancrosscoe on Jan 19, 2018 13:35:08 GMT
"For three hundred years, a terrifying secret has been kept from the outside world."
News journalist Blair Maynard (Michael Caine) have just been given the job of trying to come up with some new evidence or answers of what is really taking place not that far off the Bermuda Triangle in the Caribbean, where an increasing number of luxery boats have suddenly gone missing.
I had this film on my watchlist for years, hoping that a decent DVD would come out one day, and suddenly I stood with a copy of it. A scandinavian version with good picture and sound quality. Of course I already knew from before that it was not to be expected a "masterpiece", considering all the negative reviews about it, however I went in and was very pleased by what I saw.
This was something completely else than the usual pirate films I had seen, and this was in fact a very enjoyable mix of horror, adventure and action. While I sure enjoyed the b-movie cheese (some hilarious stuff sure goes on here and there), the horror part I thought (at times) was very well done, with some chilling and rather creepy scenes (not gonna spoil but I kind of got the same feeling as at the very end of Sleepaway Camp, the first one).
All in all, I like this, so much that I ended up awarding it with a 7/10, not seen it for a while so it might change but I think it is far away of being that horrible as many seems to put it.
Hell, it is not even close of the "worst" film Michael Caine did during the 80s, but then again this comes from someone who really like Jaws 4: The Revenge (1987), so maybe it is just me who have a big soft spot for this kind of b-movies.
David Warner for me, steals the show. Not gonna spoil the fun but he really is great here, as he mostly are wherever he might show up.
The film is based (loosely, not sure since I never read any of his work) upon a Peter Benchley novel and I guess many people still caught up on the Jaws fever was expecting something a bit different than what they got. The film bombed and was critically bashed to pieces but I have noticed over the years that more and more seem to "come out" and speak of it in a much more postive way.
The films music is done by the master himself, Ennio Morricone and I really dug it. Beautiful stuff and seems to be one of his lesser known scores, as well.