Watching this was a miserable experience. The first half of this Amazon presentation, the audio was not in sync with the picture. Which means the words that the actors are saying don’t match their moving lips. Trying to watch a movie like this is a bit like having a stroke. I could barely look at the screen. After a long session of Googling I was finally able to find the Amazon audio setting which would allow the sync sound to be correct. But that didn’t really help the story very much.
It’s too bad. Lots of care went into the rocking of the boat. Sets were designed. Hydraulics were engineered. Dishware was broken. Actors were cast to play the assholes who barf on themselves during the rocking of the boat. I’m certain numerous crew members worked very hard to rock the hydraulic boat set. But almost no effort was made to create any compelling or likable characters about whom you would worry if their boat exploded and sank which is what happens. Once the remaining assholes are stranded on the desert island (which is a few hundred unexplored yards from a luxury resort, apparently) the power dynamic shifts, but they’re all still a bunch of assholes. Not to mention the off-screen rescue crew, who are ALSO a bunch of assholes for not realizing that a big ship full of passengers exploded and washed up on a beach and need to be rescued before the housekeeping staff rapes and exploits everyone to death. The Academy voters who nominated this movie for best picture are all psychopaths. Also, as a final kick in the balls, this terrible movie ends on a cliffhanger, which means we should expect a sequel possibly titled, “The Octagon of Despair.”
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