dir. Paul Shapiro
Lindsey (Summer Glau) and Trevor (Chris Carmack) go on a cruise for their honeymoon. But, as the title pretty much screams out, things don’t exactly go to plan. After Chris goes missing, an FBI agent (who is conveniently also on the ship) attempts to piece together what happened. Deadly Honeymoon is pretty confusing, trying to be gritty and bleak but just winding up utterly meandering. Through flashbacks and CCTV discovery, the movie wants to paint a complex picture of a toxic relationship, but it’s fundamentally quite simple: Trevor is a selfish dolt, and Lindsey isn’t a whole lot better. Meanwhile the FBI agent may be one of the absolute worst ever portrayed on film, only even starting to consider the possibility of Lindsey’s involvement in the disappearance ages and ages into the investigation. When it’s finally revealed exactly what happened to Trevor, it’s underwhelming to the point of incredulity. Not a single person seems to know how to act, either, although the script’s limpness could be to blame. Characters’ motivations aren’t remotely consistent, and everyone has to rely heavily on law enforcement constantly being very, very stupid. It doesn’t seem one iota of thought or effort went into Deadly Honeymoon, a film as lost and doomed as a man overboard.
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