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TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

slayrrr666 "The Lost Voyage" is a pretty decent and mildly interesting entry.**SPOILERS**Recruited for his wild theories, Aaron Roberts, (Judd Nelson) is approached by sensationalist reporter Dana Elway, (Janet Gunn) and her crew, Julie Largo, (Scarlett Chorvat) and Randall Banks, (Richard Gunn) to go with them on a special assignment. With the discovery of a long-lost ocean liner, the news team, along with representatives David Shaw, (Lance Henriksen) Dazinger, (Jeff Kober) and Ian Fields, (Mark Sheppard) arrive at the ship and prepare to document what happened to it. Trying to prepare the ship for salvage, they all descend into the bowels of the ship when they start to experience weird events on-board. When the events start to bring about their mysterious deaths, they try to leave the ship to no avail. Wondering what to do to get off the ship, they discover the true intentions of what is going on and race their intentions of getting off.The Good News: This here wasn't all that bad when it really came down to it. This does have a really creepy and quite nice air of menace surrounding it. The legend about the ship's disappearance is a little chilling, and at the same time believable and not all that far from truth. That could easily happen in real life under the right circumstances which is nicely needed. The ship itself is quite creepy, as there's a really prominent rusted feeling that covers the wall and floors, the darkened hallways and completely eerie feeling generated from them all combine with each other to create a really great atmosphere throughout. The fact that there's a few great suspense scenes makes it even better. The main one in the nursery room is just down-right creepy, and is just full of just simply chilling and full of great ideas. There's one scene in particular which is the perfect example of being just spine-chilling. This also happens to have some really good death scenes. There's a pretty nice suspense moment that comes from a superb sequence that results in a spectacular death by electrocution and eventual electrical fire that reduces the victim to a pile of charred bones, exploding glass shards impaling in the chest, a head crushed under a falling anchor-head, a victim turned into dust and bones from malevolent touch and more in here, which results in some bloody thrills as well. It's not overtly bloody, but just enough to count, and that's what matters. The film's other really nice piece was that the pace wasn't bad. This, for the most part, is fairly well-paced and manages to keep interest in it throughout. That's a nice indication, and one that really combines with the other factors into creating a pretty decent film.The Bad News: There's a few problems with this one. One of the film's biggest problems is that the ending is completely out of touch with the film's intent. This one comes out with a really weird and off-the-wall science fiction style ending that plays a large part with really bad CGI that is really obvious. This clashes completely with it's really eerie tone throughout the beginning that creates a really intense belief in realism that is almost completely destroyed by it's light and hokey ending. The tension was realistically delivered, and this one move here pretty much takes that off the good points it had earned through the realism. Another real problem is that there's a really weird payoff that doesn't really connect with the film. These are the hallucinations that occur during the trips below deck. While it was obvious that the ghosts were malevolent, due to their killing, having them at several points become experts at mind games when they've been shown to be good at freak accidents is a little off-putting. The only other flaw is that there's a really cheesy quality here that can be picked up on by those who are looking for it, but this isn't a noticeable detriment if not being looked for.The Final Verdict: With only a few minor flaws in this one, it's not that bad of a film and does have some good moments with it. There's even to recommend this one to the ones who enjoy the Sci-Fi Channel originals or the plain curious due to it's topic, though those who are not so much fans should exceed caution.Rated R: Graphic Violence and Language

prth_gswm This movie was one of my best horror movies not because its scary but also for its location.The director has made an excellent job by making this kind of a movie .Two thumbs up.I am giving this movie 9 out of 10 because in the middle of this movie i felt little bit bored otherwise movie was awesome .As far as acting is concerned all of them does justice to their roles specially actor of this movie .He was looking quite serious to get job done.If you are a horror movie lover you really go for this movie. I assure it wont disappoint you .Highly recommended.

tom-darwin It must be harder than it looks to make a movie set aboard an ocean liner. Gritty dramas ("Souls at Sea"), thrillers ("Across the Pacific") or oceanic tearjerkers ("Titanic" & its predecessors") have scored, but among ghost stories set aboard ship, the nearest to the mark have been "The Wreck of the Mary Deare" & "Pirates of the Caribbean"--and it's generous to count either one of them. "Lost Voyage" doesn't really try very hard but is simply another installment in the Bermuda Triangle genre. Florida paranormal researcher Aaron (Nelson) learns that the cruise ship Corona Queen, which vanished in 1979 with his father & new stepmother--inspiring him to become a ghosthunter--has reappeared in the Triangle. She's in the middle of a growing tropical storm, of course, which may sink her at any time. Though proclaiming his reluctance, he inevitably brings his ectospotting-gear (once again, Man bites God with Gear) on a salvage mission. They're led by veteran, no-nonsense seascrounger Shaw (Henriksen) & backed by a TV station that sends both washed-up anchor Dana (Janet Gunn) & catty star reporter Julie (Chorvat), with nervous cameraman Randall (Richard Gunn) caught between the rivals. Hard-edged, good-hearted sea mechanics Dazinger (Kober) & Fields (Sheppard) round out the fateful team with occasional but much-needed comic relief. Of course the Corona Queen is just as she was before but passengers & crew are gone--or are they? Will the team find its answers, prevail or escape before the intense storm overcomes the drifting liner? Or will their own personal demons & rivalries tear them apart? The carelessness & cheapness that plague most SciFi Channel originals are largely absent from "Lost Voyage," which features a story of unusual depth (the characters must each face personal demons as well as supernatural foes & their own rivalries) even if it is predictable. A competent cast helps, too. Nelson's Aaron is a driven, fearless nerd, not unlike Richard Dreyfuss's Hooper in "Jaws," but more suitably somber here. Henriksen, the greatest sci-fi/action character actor since Harry Dean Stanton, is as solid as ever, bringing both believability & color to the tale. Stuntwoman Gunn is capable enough as the alternately bitter & optimistic TV reporter whose devotion to her craft usually overcomes her selfish ambition. The effects are pretty good, not spectacular enough to overwhelm the story & actors, used sparingly enough to enhance rather than distract. If you've never, ever heard of the Flying Dutchman, the Marie Celeste or the Bermuda Triangle, you'll find this movie enjoyable enough as a ghost thriller. Otherwise it's crushingly predictable, offering absolutely nothing that hasn't been done many, many times before in literature & film. "Lost Voyage" teases us early on with parapsychological mumbo-jumbo but that part of the story trails off into nothing. Even the great spooky-spoof "Ghostbusters" helped us out with that ("That's a BIG Twinkie"). There's an inherent pathos to ships, especially big ones, a sense that they're irrevocably tied to the times in which they sailed. They are machines yet somehow alive, servants yet grandly awesome. "Titanic" made so much money because it captured that theme & used it well. A pity that no nautical ghost story has yet been able to do the same.

edgarmontrose This movie stunk something awful, and I owe most of the film's disappointment to Judd Nelson's lack of believability. Its a shame because its not a bad plot of having a lost ship into the Bermuda Triangle, and then many years later, the son of a lost passenger goes to the Triangle, hoping to find out where his father went to. It could have been so much better. However, the stylized made-for-TV cinematography went way over the top on special effects, so the point where it looked like an 8th grade school play. Some of the CGI effects are interesting, but the lighting just ruins them. And did I mention that Judd Nelson is as unbelievable as ever? While here he plays a strange character that he sort of fits the bill for, I would not cast him for any role except maybe in a movie about bad actors. Some of the other actors were respectable in this film, and I feel bad for them being put alongside Judd Nelson. Okay, so overall, It is a low budget made-for-TV film, and one shouldn't expect too much from it. It has sophomoric acting, a combination of decent and pathetic special effects that produce a net mediocre special effect value. I suppose that one thing Lost Voyage has in its favor is that it is relatively short. However, Lost Voyage made for lost time more than anything.