Sea of Fear (2006)

Just so...so bad

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

**SPOILERS** The film "Sea of Fear" is so handicapped by its cockamamie and overly complicated plot that it even fail as being an entertainingly bad film despite the many unintentional laughs in it.There's this psycho killer on the loose on this chartered boat out at sea who's murdering the passengers and crew with impunity. The killer is so stealth and acrobatic that he's able to disappear, on a moments notice, into thin air without anybody knowing or getting the slightest glimpse of him until he just about murdered everyone on board! You know that the unseen killer has to be one of the seven people on board since he knows just what his victims fear most in the way they die! This information on his part was in them telling him their darkest secrets during an evening barn-fire and BS session on the deserted beaches of Snorkel Island earlier in the film.It's when the ship's navigator Joel, Adam Mayfield, suddenly disappeared, possibly in the stomach of a Great White Shark, with the navigation equipment that things started to go down the drink with the passengers and the boat captain, Edward Albert, being terrorized and murdered by the shadowy killer.The acting in the movie, with the exception of Edward Albert, is so lame and unemotional that those the psycho killer does in evoke absolutely no sympathy at all in just how easily they end up being killed off! It's as if that's exactly, in order to get out of the film, what they really wanted in the first place!Besides the missing and left for dead Joel theirs Lance, Burgess Jenkins, who ends up being shark bait together with Derek, Christopher Showenman, who end up being deep sixth with the boat's anchor tied to his legs.As everyone on board ends up dead we end up with only Ashley, Caroline Walker, and the Captain left alive and it becomes apparent to the movies audience that one of the two has to be the killer but which one!***SPOILER ALERT*** It's then that things start to go haywire with the movie getting into high gear in trying to be some kind of super IQ, that only members of Mensa can figure out, whodunit with its slew of ridicules and unending twist endings. By the time you finally get it straight to who the killer is your brain had been so twisted out of shape that you don't even care any more.If the film just stuck to the basics of you garden variety slasher film it may well have been worth watching. Instead it tried to be so cute and overbearing in it trying to fool or impress its audience that it fell apart long before it revealed who its killer really was. About the only thing interesting in the film, besides it sunning at sea photography, was the reason the killer did in his victims. That I have to say was about the only thing that shocked me in that it was far more of a surprise in what the killer's motives were then who the killer was himself!

I love film, even bad film, but this one was just too filled with technical mistakes, bad dialogue and, for a movie about a sailboat, contained more sailboat related inaccuracies than Wiley Coyote has relative to physics. There was one scene, in particular, where someone wrapped a line around a self tailing winch, in a way that would have jammed and taken a long time to fix.Other major problems, a 50 foot boat is just too small for 7 people, let alone, an official captain and navigator. Captains of boat under 100 feet do not normally bark orders like "everyone on deck", and never have their own navigator. I am not sure where this is all supposed to have taken place, but the tropical fish that they showed could be found in an aquarium, or in India or Australia. They showed giant kelp beds, like you would find in California, and then stock footage of fish that could not be found anywhere near California.Had the plot been interesting, maybe I would not have focused in on these details, but I can tell you that this master director/producer/writer must have very little experience with sailboats. Cute girls, nice boat, and lots of pretty backdrops, but crazy inane dialogue and a plot as thin as consume'.I normally like to recommend bad movies, this one I cannot.

Despite the fact that I have been a fan of Edward Albert's since a teenager, this film is hardly worth mentioning in his filmography. Albert plays a captain of a sailboat for hire, catering to what looks like rejects from the Laguna Beach set. The movie is pointless, and irritatingly confusing but just silly enough for you to get a chuckle from the fun you are going to be making of it. Of course there is the clichéd scenes dear to every post Jaws rip off that include sharks, and islands. But in this film, these features were especially badly done. One wonders why animal activists didn't applaud the makers of Sea of Fear for making the fish more agreeable than the people. Oh, let me also mention that there is a preposterous "pirate" song rendition added as "atmosphere". I could not understand the words, nor could I possible believe Mr. Albert was at all serious when he gruffs his way through a couple of stanzas. I am not so sure the actor who played "Tom", singing it at the end of the film felt quite the same way. Anyhow, the actors, aside from Mr. Albert are unknown and unknowable, and I hope they did something creative and perhaps compassionate with the money they earned from this stinker. Goodness knows,the producers had no mercy on us.

Excluding all the other variables, such story line, cinematography, sound effects, music, etc, the acting within the last 40 minutes of this movie alone, is enough to categorize this movie as one of the worst films of all time. The acting was some of the worst I've ever seen. This movie had it all, repetitive lines, corny acting, extensive nonsensical unnecessary dialogue, and at least one physically unbelievable scene between the penultimate characters. During the last 20 minutes of this movie I was just suffering, waiting for the movie to end so that my final opinion would be based on the entire movie. In short this movie can't even make the grade of watch able. Disregarding genre, when I think of how bad this movie truly is Aeon Flux comes to mind. Ouch!