Ghost Ship

Ghost Ship isn't a good movie by any stretch, but it was a better way to spend Tuesday evening than watching President Dipshit make his televised nonsense. Low bar to clear, I know.

A guy approaches a salvage crew saying he found some ocean liner adrift in the Bering Sea, and let's all go out there and see what we can get. Once they get there, things start going wrong. The engine on their ship breaks down, then blows up, there are an awful lot of recent corpses around for a ship that's been lost since the 1960s. One member of the crew (played by Julianna Margulies) keeps seeing a young girl, who will vanish the next moment. That's never a good sign.

The one part that was somewhat notable was when the girl shows Margulies what happened to all the people on the ship, via this extended flashback of lots of people being killed, and then the killers betraying each other. It's this string of one person after another thinking they've pulled a double-cross, only to be immediately double-crossed themselves. It's probably supposed to be a horrifying depiction of greed run wild, but it comes off kind of silly.

Margulies' character and the little girl are standing there watching all this, and most of the time the girl sees herself, she doesn't seem too bothered. Kind of bored, or maybe annoyed when her flashback self screams as everyone else on the dance floor is cut in half. She wrinkles her nose and shuts her eyes like it's fingernails on the chalkboard. The exception is when we see her past self dragged into room we know she died in. She flinches visibly at that part, and it's disturbing even beyond us knowing she died. Because the two guys dragging her in seemed awful excited, and it really shouldn't take two grown men to haul a kid into a room. I don't know if I'm supposed to be drawing the conclusion I am, but there it is.

Other than that one part, which was disturbing but effective, there's not much of anything to recommend the movie. I'm still wondering how long someone could actually survive floating in the Bering Sea, but I'm guessing it isn't for several hours the lone survivor manages.