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Writer-director Christopher Smith puts a modern spin on the Greek myth of Sisyphus (misidentified as Aeolus, who was Sisyphus’ father), the mortal condemned for eternity to roll a huge stone up a hill only to have it roll back down again, forever forcing him to start over. Here, a single mom named Jess (Melissa George), frantic to get back home to her autistic son, finds herself on a ghost ship with four other adults, who are being hunted down one by one by a mask-wearing psycho. The problem is, Jess is sure she’s taken this nightmare cruise before. George, surprisingly good as Jess, holds the movie together, but it would have been better if Smith had broken free from the depressing fatalism of his source material.
Writer-director Christopher Smith puts a modern spin on the Greek myth of Sisyphus (misidentified as Aeolus, who was Sisyphus’ father), the mortal condemned for eternity to roll a huge stone up a hill only to have it roll back down again, forever forcing him to start over. Here, a single mom named Jess (Melissa George), frantic to get back home to her autistic son, finds herself on a ghost ship with four other adults, who are being hunted down one by one by a mask-wearing psycho. The problem is, Jess is sure she’s taken this nightmare cruise before. George, surprisingly good as Jess, holds the movie together, but it would have been better if Smith had broken free from the depressing fatalism of his source material.