Incomprehensible

Man, wtf was up with that shootout between Dylan and Max? There were probably 100 rounds fired and not one of them hit anything. I was sitting there like damn, wtf are you guy shooting at??

At the start of the film there is a shootout aboard a 747 airliner. When one of the bad guys is shot his butt hits a door and it simply pops open allowing the man to fall out of the airplane. Airline exit doors do not operate like that. To open them you have to pull a couple levers in different directions. Didn't the director ever read the emergency exit card in any airplane he flew on?? LOL!!

Aboard the Brittanic/Britanic, Ice-T and his henchwoman each strain to carry rope & wood boarding ladders then attach them to the rail and throw the reminder over the side for the criminals who are on their way to the ship. OK. But we can plainly see that the part of the ladders that goes over the rail is only about 6 feet long! Yet a few minutes later the ladders are about a hundred feet long. LOL!!

Why are the faces of the crew in the engine room so dirty and greasy when we just left port?

Why is one of the engine crew men wearing a headlamp on his helmet?

The C-130 flies right by the ship and a second later when the frogmen jump out the plane is suddenly above the clouds.

Also when the C-130 flew by why didn't the captain of the ship, the man steering the ship or any other crew member think something odd was going on?

The scene of the frogmen trying to board the moving ship in a storm was well done. At least those scenes were credible.

After the bad guys enter the ballroom killing all crew members in sight the people in attendance just stand there with their arms at their sides. Really stupid directing! (Of course they are extras but give them SOMETHING to do!)

Mike the cameraman was shot in the chest with an M-16 yet there was no blood on his back. In case you didn't know there should be an exit wound the size of a softball (or larger) in his back. The bullet from an M-16 causes some nasty damage due to it's high velocity and tumbling in flight.

Ice-T's character shoots off a couple rounds with a Colt 45 semi-automatic in the ship's pilot house killing a crew member. Everyone in the room would have lost their hearing due to the explosive pressure.

Why do the bad guys wearing headsets have the speakers of their walkie-talkies turned on? On my walkie-talkies when I plug in a headset the speakers are automatically turned off.

Our hero closes a hatch door in the engine room and the bad woman shoots five times at the steel door! Then in frustration she kicks it!!

They just blew the door to the engine room with a C4 charge. OK. But what's with the glowing sparks around the perimeter of the door prior to the C4 exploding? Plus the charge was near the center of the door, not near the edge where it should have been.

How many bullets can a 45 semi-auto carry in one clip? Our hero must have racked off a couple dozen shots shooting at the henchwoman.

Our hero is using a walkie-talkie from the inside of an unused solid steel boiler. Radios don't work through metal walls.

OK, the explosion of the vault that cracks the ship open is a very cool scene when whole ship rocks and starts to flood. (I'm getting the impression the second unit did a better job than the first unit.)

We have been at sea for over 12 hours and are 1500 miles at sea but only as the ship is flooding does a yellow tank of (something explosive) fall over and explode. Why was not the tank chained in place?

OK, now that the ship is sinking the extras in the ballroom are freaking out with every explosion. Yet none of them head to the life boats.

At least the Navy ship LOOKS like a ship.

Why are armed Marines headed to rescue a sinking ship?

What are red English-style telephone booths doing aboard a ship? The telephone wires would need to be realllllll long!

OK, now the ship is starting to blow up for some reason. The antenna tower just fell over. OK, more great second unit work!

The camera angle implies the ship is listing yet the glass coffee pots on the galley shelf as just sitting there not sliding.

The extras are running on the top decks but we see the rocks in the background.

The passengers have managed to figure out how to lower the life boats without the help of no crew. Would you know how to lower one? Wait a minute, those ships sail with a ratio of about one crewmember to two or three passengers. Where are all the crew members?

Finally! The ship sank! Now I can go to bed...

Terry Thomas
* Director of Photography
* Film Unit Stills Photographer
www.TerryThomasPhotos.com

Old topic I know, but I just saw this movie yesterday, what a joke it was. I thought it was ironic the maintenance guy appeared so unnerved by the turn of events, and even jokingly answered questions about other ways to navigate the ship. He'd say follow me, as if this was one big adventure! I kept shaking my head at how dire the situation was one minute and the next, quite comical.

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I really can't believe how bad this film was or that I watched it for as long as I did.