This movie, which I have given the name "The Perfect Pile of Crap" was one of the few movies I got to see last year for free, and by the time it was over I felt so incredibly sorry for anyone who paid to see it. I saw it for free and I wanted my money and time back, that is how bad this movie was to me, but I'm getting ahead of myself.
Let's start at the begining. The first half hour of this film is so incredibly boring that I almost fell asleep. I suppose this was the part where they were supposed to be building character, but I didn't find any. All the characters were just cardboard cutouts (save a few). I felt so sorry for the good actors like George Clooney and John C. Reilly (who, by the way, had the only good character in the film) stuck in this dribble. The two worst things abou this film are the performance as Diana Ladd (which almost made me wish I was on the damn boat to get away from her) and actor Allen Payne's character "Alfred Pierre" who is more or less the token black guy every disaster film must have.
After the first half hour the film begins to get interesting, when one of the sharks from "Deep Blue Sea" decides to make a cameo appearance. The movie gets more and more interesting and I started to have some hope that I might be watching a good film... then it ends.
Watching the previews for the film, people were wondering "Oh my god, I wonder how they survive that big wave!" Well here is the skinny of it... they don't. Eveyone on that boat dies. How the hell is this based on a true story if there was no one who lived to tell the tale? This was a authors fantasy about what he thinks happened on the boat. The only true part of this waste of film, is that there was a boat and it disappeared in the storm. Everything else is more or less made up. That really pissed me off! It completely ruined the movie for me. The ending was terribly anti-climatic as well, leaving me with a "That's it?" feeling.
This is my pick for worst film of 2000. If you wish to depressed and bored then by all means see it, but I plan on avoiding it like the plague for the rest of my life.
