Ghost Ship

 Ghost Ship 2002

• Director: Steve Beck
• Based on book: no
• Cast: Juliana Margulies, Gabriel Byrne, Ron Eldard, Desmond Herrington, Isaiah Washington, Alex Dimitriades, Karl Urban, Emily Browning, Francesca Rettodini
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Juliana Margulies – The Sopranos, The Darwin Awards, Homicide Life on the Streets
• Gabriel Byrne – Hereditary, Quirke, Emotional Arithmetic, Jindabyne, Wah-Wah, Smilla’s Sense of Snow, Dead Man, The Usual Suspects, Little Women, Prince of Jutland, Miller’s Crossing, Gothic, Excalibur
• Ron Eldard – House of Sand and Fog, Homicide Life on the Streets, The Scent of a Woman
• Desmon Herrington – The Dark Knight Rises, Taken, Riding in Cars with Boys, My First Mister
• Isaiah Washington – Blue Caprice, Romeo Must Die, Bulworth, Dead Presidents, Clockers
• Emily Browning – Legend, Summer in February, Ned Kelly
• Why? I don’t remember. Gabriel Byrne maybe.
• Seen: 18 July 2022      

       Murph (Byrne) and his salvage crew go after a strange ship adrift in the Bering Strait. We already know from the intro that the luxury liner passengers were all sliced up by a freak wire. Only a little girl (Browning) survived. Sort of.

       Murph knows the legend. An Italian liner that simply disappeared in 1962. They board the ship, find gold and scary things start happening.

       There are ghosts and it’s a ship. ‘Oh god, you really are a fucking ghost,’ says Epps (Margulies).

       You could say that.

       Far from being a masterpiece, it still has unsuspected merits as a ghost story. Its oddness, for one thing. I probably shouldn’t like it, but I do. Not a whole lot, but it’s worth watching for entertainment. 

2 ½ * of 5