Review of The Crew

The Crew (1994)
1/10
Eat your heart out Albert Pyun! There's a new boy in town!
8 January 2003
Warning: Spoilers
His name is Carl Colpaert.

Possible the only other man who can match or perhaps even surpass Mr. Pyun's astonishing directorial incompetence. I say this based only on my viewing of the Crew, 100 minutes of pure boredom. I haven't seen his other stuff but from what I hear, I wouldn't want to so I consider myself lucky in that respect.

Anyway, the Crew is a group of people out on a yacht, skippered by Philip (Viggo Mortensen). I don't now who played the others because most of them never even took off their sunglasses, which I'm sure was the actor's idea to avoid recognization. These "charactors" come without personalities so they pretty much spend their time laying around the boat doing nothing and saying nothing, with the exception of a few oddly placed discussions that have nothing to do with anything.

*spoilers ahead*

Soon the yacht heads out to the open sea, which is actually only about 20 meter offshore for film crew convenience, and soon run into a couple of chicks on a burning boat. What to do? Swim the 20 meters to shore or the 40 meters to the yacht? Guess. With land in PLAIN view behind them, they thank the Crew for saving their lives. Jesus.

The two chicks turns out to be one chick and one dude with breast implants, which is the films only original moment. Anyway to make a long story short, the she-man hijacks the boat, makes lots of long distance calls to his lover George, finally gets shot (YES!!!) and dumped in the sea.

This is the films ONLY story line. Everything else is chitchat.

I give this crap 3 stars out of a hundred. 1 star for a guy with breasts (interesting), 1 star for it's unpredictability, and one star for when the dude with rack gets wacked.
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