Hard to Watch

Rating: 1/10 (21 September 2015)

This is a movie of wasted potential. Modern-day pirates, crew playing hide-and-seek to stay alive, dramatic rescue. It's all there: all the ingredients for a great movie. So why is this such a flop? Perhaps it's not such a good idea to make the aggressors so realistic that they have no connection whatsoever with the audience. It was like watching actual Somali pirates, and therefore there was no emotional tension--I just wanted them all slotted. That they didn't get slotted, but managed to hijack a vast ship with basically a spear was so frustrating that I lost patience with the whole proceeding. It was...worthy. It was PC. It was just...boring.