Product: Kill Cruise
Rating: 2.0
Fun, but only for a limited audience
I tracked down a copy of this movie solely because of Jürgen Prochnow's presence in it. It's getting some wider distribution lately due to the fact that it's also one of Elizabeth Hurley's earliest movies.This is a fun movie if you like Prochnow, Hurley, or sailing, because most of the movie is set on a beautiful 45-foot (approximate) ocean-going sailboat out in the middle of the Atlantic.Also released under two other titles: Der Skipper (The Skipper) and The Storm. Filmed in English, but the looping is so bad in places that it looks dubbed.Basic plot: Prochnow's best friend (and his wife's lover) drowns at sea during a storm while they two of them are out on a fishing trip. The wife blames Prochnow for her lover's death and leaves him. Prochnow spends the next six months in a drunken haze in Gibraltar, each day saying he's putting out to sea "tomorrow; what's the use in staying here?" Then he meets two young British women (Hurley and Patsy Kensit) who want to go to Barbados. He agrees to take them.Neither woman knows anything about sailing and they refuse to learn, so Prochnow has to do all the work (fortunately, it's a boat that can reasonably be handled by one person). Kensit's character displays a great deal of neurotic-bordering-on-psychotic behavior, and both try, at different times, to seduce the Skipper. Alas, cabin fever also sets in, leading to more neurotic/psychotic behavior.Well-acted by Prochnow (of course), but a bit uneven with Hurley and Kensit. Budget must have run out, because the final scene comes out of nowhere and makes very little sense.