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Voyage
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Voyage takes the claustrophobic boat setting of Dead Calm (1987), adds the intrigue of two couples tangling with each other in an exotic locale as in The Comfort of Strangers (1991), and casts its central psycho villain (Eric Roberts) as a proletarian animal like De Niro in Cape Fear (1991). The resulting thriller is formula stuff, but expert director John Mackenzie (The Fourth Protocol, 1987) gives it some very lively and terrifying edges. Rutger Hauer is cast against type – a little uncomfortably – as an ex-stud who has become a gentle architect, now dreaming of building a hotel in Malta and rescuing his ailing marriage to Karen Allen. At a school reunion they encounter wild man Roberts with a mysterious young companion (Connie Nielsen). Travelling together on the high seas soon becomes a nightmare of debauchery and deceit. The final showdown on a deserted Malta shore is especially riveting. © Adrian Martin November 1993 |
