An icebreaker with an all female crew tracks down ships doing illegal fishing, when they come across a man floating in the water. After rescuing him, they realize he's infested with a parasite not seen before. At the same time, the ship's engine has failed, and the two mechanics onboard only have hours to fix it before a major storm hits. But here the real problems of the ship are revealed: The crew members. It has zero medical staff, apart from a medical school flunky who breaks down under any kind of pressure. One of the mechanics breaks down into hysterics at the news of a storm coming and starts waving a rifle at her mates.
There's an abundance of sobbing, screaming and breakdowns, and a near complete lack of planning, discipline and rational thought. Apart from maybe three or four of the crew, these people are very far from the kind who belongs on a ship. On a three months long journey on the open seas, Joe and Jane "I crack under pressure! Better you all die than me! Wah, I want my mommy!" aren't just nuisances - they're a danger to everyone.
I see a lot of reviews saying that they really should have had some men on board. Not even half an hour into the movie, I was thinking the same thing, and as a woman, that upsets me. The movie has a bit TOO much of the old "poor fragile women need men to handle things" stereotype, with added bonus of "women aren't team players". Don't get me wrong - there are a fair share of male, equally ill-fitted characters in other movies, but they're usually better organised, and they don't scream, sob or break down so much. And there's usually not so many of them in the this type of movie.
The story otherwise is un-original and uninspired, I feel. The out-of-the-blue "parasite must be from the Mariana Trench" was just unnecessary. It's a tired cliché at this point. We know close to nil about the larger part of the oceans. We have no idea what sort of creatures we've yet to encounter anywhere, so this "anything unknown must be from the Trench" thing is rather cheap.
There's an abundance of sobbing, screaming and breakdowns, and a near complete lack of planning, discipline and rational thought. Apart from maybe three or four of the crew, these people are very far from the kind who belongs on a ship. On a three months long journey on the open seas, Joe and Jane "I crack under pressure! Better you all die than me! Wah, I want my mommy!" aren't just nuisances - they're a danger to everyone.
I see a lot of reviews saying that they really should have had some men on board. Not even half an hour into the movie, I was thinking the same thing, and as a woman, that upsets me. The movie has a bit TOO much of the old "poor fragile women need men to handle things" stereotype, with added bonus of "women aren't team players". Don't get me wrong - there are a fair share of male, equally ill-fitted characters in other movies, but they're usually better organised, and they don't scream, sob or break down so much. And there's usually not so many of them in the this type of movie.
The story otherwise is un-original and uninspired, I feel. The out-of-the-blue "parasite must be from the Mariana Trench" was just unnecessary. It's a tired cliché at this point. We know close to nil about the larger part of the oceans. We have no idea what sort of creatures we've yet to encounter anywhere, so this "anything unknown must be from the Trench" thing is rather cheap.