Review of Stowaway

Stowaway (II) (2021)
1/10
Abandon ship
8 August 2022
Warning: Spoilers
Do not waste your valuable time on this POS. I hate to spoil movies but here goes.

Bella gets notified that her estranged father died and left her a mega-yacht. The man who portrays himself as the executor of the non-existing will is the business partner of the deceased. He tells her she simply needs her to bring her passport to the marina and she takes ownership of the property. WHAT? Yes that's how easy it is. The dock master just hands over the keys of a multi-million dollar yacht without any paperwork. In fact, she has an Australian passport to which when know his system cannot possibly verify but I digress. She gets onboard and looks the boat over but is informed she cannot stay on the boat because well, them are the rules. You can takeover a boat with a flimsy passport check but staying on the boat is a no-no!

Without going on with further useless detail she sneaks onboard later that night and the real story is revealed. A band of mercenaries commandeer the yacht on off they go into open water so they can open a safe in one of the cabinets.

The premise of this heist is they steal millions of dollars they believe Bella's father stashed in the safe. When the job is done they would junk the yacht and Bella can claim insurance money on it. Everyone makes out rich in the end. This plan might even be plausible if not for the fact that the bad guys already had access to the boat. The captain, who is part of the heist told Bella he's on contract to with her father until the end of the year. So they could have cracked the safe without ever even leaving the marina. In fact, they didn't even need her at all. Her only plotline is that she possesses something they need but they don't know that ahead of the heist. She literally blows up their plans and the yacht, end of story.

So nothing new in the art of storytelling here. The acting, the action, the lackluster story, the resolution ... the whole thing was worse than any made for TV movie. Hard pass on this.
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