fcasanova OK...OK... It's not going to win any awards! But it is a great study (listen to directors comments) on how to make a low budget ($350,000) thriller in 15 days. Shot with two Panasonic HVX-200 HD camcorders on a docked WWII Liberty ship in LA, the 15 man crew did an amazing job in the cramped sets they had to work with... which is why the lighting is minimal. But isn't that the way it's supposed to be in the typical "spooky house" (the ship) movie. The writers simply cranked the script out after visiting this museum ship...and they acknowledge that much. They simply wanted to have fun making a movie. One unintentional hilarity is the similarity to part of the plot line to "Ghostbusters".

griffmills To start with, there is a lot of torture scenes...beatings, dunking in water, etc....but no torture can match what happened to me...I sat through the entire movie !! I would rather had been beaten or drowned, why, oh why, did I do it? You get to see Katherine Rudolph kinda nude for a second (of course during the middle of all hell breaking loose, she stops to take a shower)so that was the only bonus. Dialogue was terrible, plot was weak...too much un-needed violence, C acting.....maybe they changed name of movie because everyone was ragging on it so much.....please don't see it...send me your money instead : ) But seriously, has to be the worse movie I have seen in years.

Jakealope It's hard to hate a film you rented for only a buck, but this one did it. First off, the movie and some reviewers too, called the obvious WW ll vintage TRANSPORT a BATTLESHIP. Normally I don't get too picky about military stuff, like that model of the P-51 Mustang wasn't used in the Pacific in WW ll or trivia like that. but confusing an obvious transport, with derricks around cargo holds, with a battleship that is only 8 times it's size and bristling with guns is a travesty of idiocy, even for a foreign translation. A gun tub with a 20 mm cannon or a flack gun on the bow does not make even a warship. Then the rank of Lance and other naval dudes keep changing, colonel, captain, general admiral. Do you need R Lee Ermey to keep the ranks realistic too? Then the ultimate lack of imagination was to make the nemesis a, hold your breath cause this is supposed to be set in our times, NAZI SS genetically altered superman from WW ll! Is he a ghost or some emag presence or or just some true superman is hard to figure out. But one scene towards the end has him in his little hideaway listening to some 1940's vintage radio covered with cobwebs. You mean after 60 plus years no one caught him in his little home away from home on a naval vessel? He has fantastic powers of dismemberment, he did most of the original crew in by tearing them apart then displays some sort of mind control and body jumping skills too at the end. Like they were filming the scene and what ever cheap sci fi - supernatural trick they could come up was used in that scene. After the first 15 minute everything was done in dark in below deck. About the only thing I can admire about them was that they did get a real transport for a at least a couple live action scenes.They also through some scenes in the beginning where our guys were brutally torturing some Iraqi terrorists, who of course is well educated in our colleges and speaks great English too. So there is supposed to be parallelism between our bad boys behavior and this super Aryan spook. This gives one of our good guys, some naval rating, a chance to confront the badder of our guys to show that real Americans have heart. This rating is supposed to be Lance's son who Lance and his SEAL? team are sent onto the ship to rescue. But in another scene both Lance and his son are punching out some ghost hunter CIA? dude who knows more than he's letting on, I guess. They are punching him out in a room full of model ships and displays like the type kids and vets build to show in the mall. What dreck In spite of all this, the movie's ending is still confusing and I couldn't give it away because it was just too lame. Do not, I mean do not, go 1" out of your way to watch this direct to DVD mess!

movieman_kev Oh when oh when will I learn not to let my absolute adoration of Lance Henrikson make me sit through even extremely bad films Ie. pretty much anything post-"Millennium". This brain-dead little number is no different. Attempting to tie a Iraq war film with a supernatural ghost story may work on paper, but this is not paper and the result is an absolute mess that's nearly unwatchable. Bad acting, bad special effects, incoherent storyline. One can go right down the list of bad film-making 101 and put checks down it. The sad thing is I KNOW this won't be the last movie I watch from Henrikson, i still believe the guy rocks. But it will be the last Roel Reine flick that I watch.My Grade: D-DVD Extras: Director's commentary; One night on the set; Alternate opening; deleted scenes; Trailer for this movie; and trailers for "War, Inc.", "Player 5150", "Day of the Dead", "Three Days to Vegas", "Jack & Jill Vs. the World", "the Amateurs", & "Rockaway"