Diagonaldi Very well executed

Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever

GamerTab That was an excellent one.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

A_Different_Drummer Did you ever stop to think how dull Hollywood product would be without Brits (Anthony Hopkins) Canadians (Bill Murray, Jim Carrey) and Aussies (Mel Gibson, Radha Mitchell, Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman)? Mitchell had already distinguished herself in the international hit Pitch Black but that was an ensemble piece and Vin Diesel stole the show. This was the part that any actor would kill for -- a chance to carry an entire movie on your back, sink or swim (sorry for the pun). And Mitchell pulled it off. Other reviewers have talked about the plot, but really this kind of film is not about plot at all. It is simply and purely about the ability of one actor to hold your attention for 90 minutes (not counting the cat, respects to the other reviewer who felt he was the real star, see my review of MY CAT FROM HELL). And, again, Mitchell pulled it off. That's all there is to this film. (Other than the really creepy dream sequences, which, to be fair, really popped.) Really. That is the entire point of this movie. Would I lie to you?

Hellhawk666 It's interesting that so many reviews of this film rate it poorly. Whilst I'd not give it 10 stars, it's certainly worth 7. The script is fine, the acting good, the direction and production OK - what's not to like? I guess a lot of the people who don't "get" this film were either expecting something quite different, or else they are not sailors. The general plot has been covered here several times so I won't repeat it again at length - it is a simple situational thriller in which a lone sailor, becalmed in the Indian Ocean, begins to experience vivid hallucinations. These are at least partly in reaction to the death of both her parents whilst her round the world single-handed attempt was under way.Were the "visitors" real? No, of course not - not one - they are all complete fantasies. Lone sailors frequently experience vivid, lucid hallucinations during long voyages. Watch "Deep Water", the recent bio-pic about the Golden Globe trophy in 1968, to get a taste of this in real life. One competitor went totally nuts and jumped overboard after creating an elaborate hoax regarding his position - another saw and talked to Bing Crosby whilst in the middle of the Atlantic! It's old news.What made the film gripping for me was the realization that, isolated as she was, her own mind was her greatest enemy. At one point she jumps overboard to escape imaginary pirates, and only comes back to her senses once on board again. Another time she sets fire to the boat to fight the "visitors". That's REAL terror - the knowledge that in an isolated and totally self-sufficient environment, you may do yourself or your only means of survival real damage during an hallucination. The one person you can absolutely trust, yourself, is suddenly someone to be feared. Truly terrifying, more so than any ghost story, and the actual point of the film.The end is sound and not at all muddled, as some people have said. She comes to grips with the death of her parents, most importantly by realizing that she was not to blame for the accident that left her father crippled or for her mother's eventual suicide. Her boyfriend is apparently unfaithful and her sponsor for the race has backed out. So, she does the best thing possible - she crosses the finishing line and then without stopping turns around and sails on to new horizons in New Zealand, perhaps to find the man with whom (it is hinted) she had a relationship before leaving on her voyage.Her mental stability is restored, and she's ready for life again, symbolized by her cat no longer "talking" to her, but just being a normal cat. Those who don't "get" the ending probably prefer simplistic endings where everything works out happily ever after for everyone. Go watch a Disney film instead - you'll probably prefer that.

gazineo-1 First of all, 'Visitors, The' is not a common thriller. Far from that, the movie tells us a story about the rendezvous of a young yacht-woman (Mitchell)in a solitaire voyage around the world in a little boat with her own problems, griefs, fear and misunderstandings of a whole life. In this process, her mind derived away in a dangerous way, in which she is confronted with hallucinations involving her deceased parents, a strange lover and even her only companion in the trip - a cat named 'Taco' - starts to 'talk' to her. Good premise, even an intelligent one, but the movie lacks an indispensable deepness that the story must claim. Because of that, the result is a bit too contrived, not passionate or challenging. In fact, after some time in front of the TV, you'll feel a certain disappointment because a good idea was just mistreated. Radha Mitchell is good but her competence and her beauty are not strong enough to make this one a remarkable movie.

prddad Spoiler Alert!! The back of the movie is what drew me to it, but it was the ending that sank this boat. I mean, come on, a movie about a woman at sea, is experiencing possible "hallucinations" (of her mom and a sailor to name a few), but these "hallucinations" can actually touch and hurt her. Is it aliens? Is it ghosts? No...(spoiler here) it's some type of spider creature that is at the bottom of her boat that is doing this? I'm sorry, the movie started boring (background on how she ended up on the boat (but we needed this, I understand)), then came the action, then to practically end it all with these "spiders". The director should have had this movie viewed by an audience, and once the boos came when the spiders showed up, he should have redone the ending.