Dead Calm

Pros: Interesting movie. Nicole Kidman, Sam Neil, and Billy Zane
Cons: Predictable at times

I’m working more now, so I haven’t had as much time to watch movies, though I do still manage to catch some on television. Sometimes I end up staying up way too late to watch something. I had finished up for the week and had two days off, ...

Pros: Good - if somewhat implausible - story; taut directing; Nicole Kidman (and her nude scene)
Cons: Some unrealistic plot devices; may be too intense for a few people

Although Nicole Kidman is practically a household name in this first decade of the 21st Century because of her beauty, talent, intelligence and being Tom Cruise's ex-wife, she was a 22-year-old "unknown" to non-Australian movie and TV audiences when she ...

Pros: Intense psychological challenges; realistic psychological underpinnings; great performances; Kidman's debut; good cinematography and sound
Cons: Some predictable plot developments

Dead Calm (1989) is a classic psychological thriller. It was also the film that introduced Nicole Kidman to the world at large. Kidman is my favorite actress among those currently in their prime. There are some actresses from other eras that I ...

Pros: Phillip Noyce's direction. Nicole Kidman, Billy Zane, Sam Neil. South Pacific. Script. Cinematography. Sound. Editing.
Cons: To conventional Horror fans, apparent lapses in logic. The ending (though a cheaply effective one).

"The side of the ship made an opaque belt of shadow on the darkling glassy shimmer of the sea. But I saw at once something elongated and pale floating very close to the ladder. Before I could form a guess a faint flash of phosphorescent light, which ...

Pros: Solid performances. Taut editing and direction. Gorgeous cinematography. Nicole Kidman nudity.
Cons: Plot is too obvious from the outset. Finale was a bit too over-the-top.

The 1989 film Dead Calm exists now as sort of a forgotten footnote in the careers of Nicole Kidman and Billy Zane. Sam Neil had already established himself to a certain extent by this movie but the other 2 stars were still relative unknowns at the...

Pros: Kidman & Neill use their native Aussie accents! Plus Nicole's....
Cons: more far fetched than a muppet movie.

well, everything ! I mean, I WON'T wait to see it. I couldn't bare (pun intended) to sit through the film again just for a glimpse of Nicole Kidman in the buff.

And if I'm not going to sit through it to see her, there is no other reason to see...