Dead Calm

1989

Action / Horror / Thriller

33
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 63% · 31 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 63% · 25K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.8/10 10 47393 47.4K

australia sense of guilt toxication loss of loved one shipwreck yacht

Plot summary

An Australian couple takes a sailing trip in the Pacific to get over the recent loss of their son. While on the open sea, they come across a sinking ship with one survivor who is not at all what he seems.

Director

Phillip Noyce Photo
Phillip Noyce

Top cast

Nicole Kidman Photo
Nicole Kidman as Rae Ingram
Billy Zane Photo
Billy Zane as Hughie Warriner
Sam Neill Photo
Sam Neill as John Ingram
George Shevtsov Photo
George Shevtsov as Doctor
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884.5 MB
1280*528
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 36 min
Seeds 11
1.6 GB
1904*784
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 36 min
Seeds 36

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Stay_away_from_the_Metropol 8 / 10

Setting the tone for 90's thrillers...and it thrills!

I was most inspired to check this out knowing it was Nicole Kidman's breakthrough performance. Once you get into the movie it somehow feels like a cross between Event Horizon and, like, Titanic, but in the form of a 90's style thriller, which I suppose you have to give it a little extra credit for considering it's from 1989, so the vibe probably played a part in inspiring some of the vibe of 90's films.Halfway through, I wasn't sure I was going to be a fan of this movie, but the last half hour hits in just the right ways to the extent that it makes the whole movie worthwhile. It's why thrillers are called thrillers - it's thrilling as hell. Up until those satisfying scenes, it just felt like an extremely formulaic experience - and Billy Zane is kind of a hard sell. Zane is, at least bizarre - as usual. His energy is always jarring but I feel like it's most jarring when it's not supposed to be, less so when it is. Kidman definitely steals the show but all three leads have strong enough presences to round the movie out well. I also enjoyed the somewhat zany music score - felt very Australian.This is a quick, painless viewing so there's no point not to see it if you're interested in 80's/90's thrillers or curious to see where Kidman and Zane had their beginnings. Solid flick!
Reviewed by Chance_Boudreaux19 7 / 10

The ending...

Really, really enjoyed this movie. For the most part I was willing to completly suspend my disbelief but the ending kind of ruined it. After Nicole Kidman leaves Zane in the inflatable boat and rescues Sam Neill and they embrace I thought that was it and thought that it was a great way to end the movie. And then we get the shot of them finding the inflatable empty and I thought to myself : yes! This is even better, we will never know if he drowned or if someone rescued him and it was quite ominous. That was literally THE perfect way to end it. But then the real ending does happen and whilst Zane getting shot with a flare is cool, the ending is tacked on and dumb. What annoyed me even more is going on IMDB and finding out that the ambigious ending was the original choice but test audiences wanted a conclusion... This is one of the times I just can't comprehend the stupidity of general audiences, everything has to be served to people in a way that doesn't require them to think too much and it's a damn shame because the original ending would've made the movie that much better. Still, a very atmospheric thriller that I'm happy I watched, I guess it's about the journey and not the destination.
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