This is How Movies Should Be Made

Good concept, poorly executed.

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

You'd think if a ship went missing in the Bermuda Triangle for 25 years, and mysteriously reappeared with near everything intact minus the people they'd be more global interest than from a crappy, cheap cable show, but never mind. Our intrepid explorers, complete with the son of two of the original passengers and a salvage crew board the long-lost frigate... and promptly start dying one after the other in 'strange' circumstances. Could the cause be something to do with the supernatural? My guess is: YES.Watching this is akin to drinking Diet Coke: It quenches your thirst, but has absolutely no distinction and doesn't leave any impression whatsoever. There are some reasonable special effects, no-one is so irritating you want them to perish immediately and I couldn't detect any daft decisions made... which is unusual in this genre. It's just you want MORE than mere competency, a fact hammered home by the lack of anything resembling a climax. The film is content to sit there... wallowing in it's own mediocrity... with the predictable couple surviving and barely any fireworks throughout. Not even a damp sparkler.Some may be content with this. I wasn't. 4/10

Hollywood is building up a nice cache of "derelict ship" movies: "The Black Hole", "Ghost Ship", "Event Horizon", and even episodes of "The X Files" and "Night Gallery" have built stories around this theme. This isn't even the first movie to center its plot on the infamous Bermuda Triangle. That honor may belong to "Satan's Triangle", a 1975 ABC "movie of the week" which, for all its tiny budget (and ship!), is still probably the best of the genre.This film most resembles "Ghost Ship", which came out a year later. If I'm not mistaken, this is an original film out of the Sci Fi Channel's stable of made-for-TV thrillers. That by itself is hardly a ringing endorsement, but this one is actually moderately interesting.The TV budget shows in the CG effects which, while not horrible, are noticeable for what they are. (The flying ghosts are hardly convincing.) Sci-fi fans will like the cast, which features Lance Henriksen ("Millenium"), who by now can do this kind of story in his sleep; and sharp-eyed "X Files" fans will recognize Mark Sheppard, who played gregarious pyromaniac Cecil L'Ively in the episode "Fire".Where this movie succeeds is in establishing a spooky atmosphere. You know characters are going to be dying one by one, so the real suspense comes in the times in-between the deaths. Where the movie fails, unfortunately, is in the storytelling. Though the overall structure is good, a few things beg explaining. SPOILER WARNING -- SPOILER WARNING -- SPOILER WARNINGWithout getting into too much detail, let's just say that one of the characters first warns the others about impending doom, and then leads another character to his death. Not exactly consistent, huh? Nor is it explained why the phantoms that appear are people from the characters' pasts...nor why, indeed, the ship suddenly re-appears from the Bermuda Triangle, only to be headed right back into it. In a more minor vein, one might carp on the fact that the ghosts do away with the first few victims via physical means, i.e, "accidents", whereas some of the last characters to go are outright dissolved by the resident spookies. END SPOILER WARNING -- END SPOILER WARNING -- END SPOILER WARNINGAside from the aforementioned questionable plot points, the ending is a bit weak. The script really has all the earmarks of something that needed a few more weeks of polishing before being put before the cameras. Still, you can make an argument for this film based on atmosphere. It's paced nicely, the camera work is effective, the music appropriately creepy, and the acting is decent.These factors overcome the flaws enough to make it a spooky, watchable "popcorn" film...good for a rental or a deep-discount buy.

This movie was boring and predictable. It was clear early on who would survive and what they needed to do to guarantee survival. This TV fiasco almost makes an Ed Wood movie look like an Oscar contender. A better choice would be Ghost Ship... if only for the slicing scene.

well, rent this film only after you've seen every other horror film in your video store. even then, consider expanding your tastes to as many other genres as you can before returning to lost voyage. still tempted? how about picking up a nice book, or going out with your friends, or perhaps simply hammering your genitals to a board with an old nail?why do i do this to myself? why did i think that anything good could come out of a made-for-the-tube film about a ghost ship starring judd "washed-up-since-1985" nelson? you know why? session 9. i blame session 9. every now and then, after sifting through the ever-thinning ranks of my olde video store i decide to rent a movie that screams "complete loser" in hopes that it turns out to be somewhere between "mildly loserish" and "ok". and sometimes, just sometimes, one of these low expectation picks turns out to be a bit of a winner, like session 9. well, the makers of this film (and my video store) can thank david caruso's scrawny white ass, because session 9 restored my faith that not all obscure low-budget horror films are stupid and brainless despite all the alarm bells that sound when you read the box.unfortunately lost voyage IS stupid and brainless, a cheeseball excuse for a bunch of roughly sketched characters to run around the corridors of a ship accompanied by a relentless horror movie soundtrack. sure, it's got its jump-out-at-ya moments, but so does my fridge after i forget about a half-eaten ham-n-cheese sandwich that's been sitting in the back for a week or three.it's just that the plot is so lazy. there is so much that could have been done with the bermuda triangle yet they way lamed out. um, so, mr. writer-directory-guy, what's your theory on the triangle? "well, it's a gateway to HELL!" so, where have all the people on the ship gone... "well, they've been sucked into HELL"! so, um, why has the ship reappeared? "well, there was this storm, just like when it disappeared, so it came back... back from HELL"! alright, but why is the ship trying to off all these weak-ass characters now it's returned? "well, it's collected all this evil energy because, well because, well, of course it wants to off everybody it's been in HELL"!damn i wish i could get a few paycheques for coming up with brilliant plotting like that.ok, vented enough. goodnight.