Lost Voyage (2001)

A waste of 90 minutes of my life

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

UFO Pictures movies are usually not much to write home about, and that's an understatement. Lost Voyage is not a bad movie at all. Of course, it does have its flaws, the biggest debit being the ending, which underwhelmed me in the sense that it does little to provide explanation to what was happening and why. But there is also some dialogue that felt a little rushed and contrived, uneven pacing and characters that are blandly developed. On the other hand, technically Lost Voyage is not bad at all, the settings are grim but fitting with the film's theme while the effects especially for UFO Pictures are decent. The music is haunting, and the story while predictable in set up is actually suspenseful and quite spooky. The acting is better than average, both Judd Nelson and Lance Henrikssen granted has done better but both are solid in Lost Voyage and the female roles are more than just beautiful people just there to be only that. All in all, not bad. 6/10 Bethany Cox

It's another ghost ship, a la Mary Celeste type mystery. The Corona Queen turns up after disappearing 30 years earlier. Quickly, a bunch of people that can't wait to get killed by ghosts form a rag-tag "research" group and sneak aboard to film the vessel and its secrets (they're not supposed to be there of course-big surprise).One (Judd Nelson) is the son of of two passengers who vanished along with the ship; he's now an expert on Bermuda Triangle phenomena. There's a TV filming crew of 3, and a ship salvage team of 3, led by a guy who talks slow and creepily (Lance Henrikson). It's obvious who's gonna get it, and in which order. The movie does find some Twilight Zone type twists as the story progresses (like inner past guilt haunting the person), so the deaths are predicated on something, at least. (Somewhat better than one of those movies where victims scream "Oh my Gawd!" as they take turns getting axed.)Nelson and Henrikson aren't bad, but neither is at his best here. Nelson's always bulging his eyes out; it almost looks like they'll burst out of his head at any moment (he could also use a better hair cut). The balance of the group are all unknowns who make good targets for the paranormal entities. The spooks are designed pretty well, and the movie wisely doesn't show them until the time is right.Routine stuff, but delivered reasonably well.

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.

Just another "Bermuda Triangle" film that uses the theories of another dimension and yet this film works well because it takes time to develop some likeable characters. Judd Nelson plays Aaron Roberts, now grown-up son of the Roberts family. The first time we see little Aaron, he tossed away a gift from his new step-mother and accused her of not being his mother. This is the memory that he must live with as he could not know that it would be the last time that he would see his family. Will he be given another chance to end his guilt of rejecting her? Now a researcher into extraordinary events, he believes that the "Triangle" is another passage into something or somewhere else. He wants to find that lost ship for that chance. Dana Elway played by Janet Gunn, an older reporter that is about to be pushed aside for a younger female reporter. She remembers her mother that was in pain and died when Dana was a little girl that turned off her life support machine. The sudden appearing of the missing ship gives her a chance to get the story of the century if she can show what happens in the Triangle. Will she be given that opportunity also in dealing with the guilt of killing her mother. The other characters like Lance Henriksen are not very likeable and are not missed as the Triangle invites them to partake of its secrets, well maybe not invite but does take them. Excellent effects at the end with a fine ending make this film well worth your time into the mysterious Triangle.