This was truly one of the worst films I've seen in a long time.
The story was incoherent throughout most of the film, leaving you constantly wondering who was who and what they were doing. Characters just sort of arrived and did their thing giving you no idea what the hell was going on. Characters also so sort of disappeared at critical moments. There were so many illogical leaps and gaping plot holes, how on earth did they even stitch this movie together?
For example, the main character, Doyle a Boston detective, has a cup of tea with Melissa an artist and the female lead (and a Jane Seymour doppelganger to boot) and within minutes everyone is calling her his girlfriend. When literally nothing on screen suggests they've even held hands.
Another example is when the Director, who cast himself as the Police Chief, tells Doyle to leave the island and immediately stop working the case, Doyle just says no and broods for a few seconds, so of course the Police Chief immediately forgets what he just said and organizes all the assistance he can give Doyle to pursue the case... I mean it was literally just a beat and he was doing the opposite.
The worst one was the final shoot-out, Doyle had enlisted a local with a bow to help him assault the house the killers were holed up in, a bowman who was good enough to send an arrow through one of the killers legs. Yet the bowman just disappears after that shot, he wasn't injured in the fight, he didn't run away, he just kind stayed out of the final showdown, almost like he said, you guys work it out without me.
The dialogue was universally awful, so it's hard to know if you should blame the actors for it, but they were all utterly wooden in their performances. Hard to pick who was the worst on screen as they all had a crack at being awful.
Lastly the film's score was so odd, one minute we had Gladiator style haunting singing for a flash back, to a jaunty Scottish jigs, then to an Irish style dance, then to contemporary ballads... none of them matched the scenes unfold on screen at all. It was off-putting and by the end of the film you couldn't help but laugh at how bad it all was.
I've watched many lowly rated films and all of them have some redeeming features, not this film, it is absolutely the worst film I've seen in years, that anyone gives this more than about 3 or 4 out of 10 is just mind blowing.
