Billy Zane is great in this film, like never before, and never again in his career. The film perfectly captures the feeling of being alone in a vast space, and at the same time being isolated in a small room with someone you really don't want to be with. There are a lot of under-tides going in relationship between Zane and Kidman characters that I really enjoy. On top of all that is simply brilliant soundtrack, that enhances the movie a lot.

Although impressive overall, the movie has some unnecessarily explicit scenes. A near classic.

A pretty alright film. Makes me want to get a boat.

The set-up is promising and the director gets a thrilling claustrophobic atmosphere out of it with great lensing and on-point performances. The ending betrays the feeling of the movie though.

A better-than-average contribution to the canon of easily-digestible pop thrills, Dead Calm's "..From Hell" vision walks its broad path with far greater skill than the Oscar-winning Fatal Attraction. If there's little of excellence to clutch onto in the film's distribution of grim novelties, there's at least a sense of competency to Noyce's aesthetic that couldn't be had in Lyne's.

The final scene is terrible, but overall it's a tightly-wound thriller with a nice moody atmosphere and a fair bit of suspense. Good acting performances by all three leads, a great ambient electro soundtrack, and some lovely shots of the open expanse of the ocean. Of course it's the setting that really makes this movie work. Stranded at sea with a psychotic Billy Zane; who wouldn't be afraid of that? You wonder why Kidman doesn't just bash him over the head after about 5 minutes, but whatever.

Excellent thriller. I've seen Noyce's Tom Clancy adaptations but those films were pretty ruthlessly ruled by the script, and I think he works better with something simpler like this. Shame about that ending though.

Classic.

74.250

Good

Good movie, just makes me very uncomfortable. Which, I know, is the point.

well done overall