Review of 2010: Moby Dick (2010) by Karine N — 11 Dec 2014
Cheesy. Ridiculous. Unnecessary. Those are three adjectives that immediately spring to mind when I think of this adaptation of Moby Dick, but then again, those three words also apply to every film to ever come out of the Asylum. So I'm not overly surprised.
The story is basically the familiar one. Captain Ahab manages to find the only whale in existence that can eat his leg, consequently lose his leg, and then drag a large force of unsuspecting whale bait on a journey to find and kill that darned whale. This time, however, the film is set in modern times, so Ahab has a Navy submarine, and the entire Navy ends up involved, as well as some young Marine Biologists who exist solely to identify whale song.
The cast is basically B-movie ring-ins, led by, for some reason, Barry Bostwick of Rocky Horror Picture Show fame (wow, Susan Sarandon had a much better career trajectory from that film). They read their lines as a cast, and sometimes inject an emotion into the line - though not always the most appropriate one.
The CGI is horrible, the whale looks like it escaped from the first render of the new Jurassic Park movie, and the film is just overall a ludicrous experiment in overindulgence.
I'm feeling generous. I'll give it 1 star.
This review of 2010: Moby Dick (2010) was written by Karine N on 11 Dec 2014.
2010: Moby Dick has generally received very negative reviews.
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