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Mysterious Island

USA 2010
produced by
Matt Keith, George M. Kostuch, Cameron Larson for Leverage Entertainment, Inner Media, Huze Media Group
directed by Mark Sheppard
starring Gina Holden, Lochlyn Munro, William Morgan Sheppard, Susie Abromeit, J.D. Evermore, Edrick Browne, Caleb Michaelson, Mark Sheppard, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Lawrence Turner, Tony Senzamici
screenplay by Cameron Larson, based on the novel by Jules Verne, music by Kenneth Hampton, Clifton v.Powell, visual effects by Rogue State

Captain Nemo

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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The American Civil War: Trying to escape a Confederate ambush, Union Captain Harding (Lochlyn Munro) takes his battalion out of the danger zone via a balloon that just happened to be around, and now all they have to deal with is Pencroft (J.D. Evermore), an especially ambitious Confederate who has clung onto the balloon to take them captive single-handedly - not much of a problem, right? But then the balloon flies through a time portal right onto an island in the middle of the Bermuda Triangle, God knows when. Soon after them, two girls from 2012, capable Julia Fogg (Gina Holden) and her partygirl sister Abby (Susie Abromeit) crashland their plane on the island as well, and while Harding, his men and the girls are still trying to figure out what's going on, they are already attacked by cannibalistic mutants, giant octopusses living in the sea around the island, and of course there's a volcano too, bound to break out every minute now. Harding's men die like flies of course, with the Confederate soldier dying an especially nasty and cowardly death, but Harding, the girls and the token black man (Edrick Browne) survive everything pretty much unscathed. They also find a mansion that apparently belongs to Captain Nemo (William Morgan Sheppard), whose submarine Nautilus was once the terror of the Seven Seas, but who eventually has created a temporal anomaly dealing with elements beyond his comprehension, and who has thus created the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle, which is essentially some sort of time portal. Interestingly, Harding is very quick to pick up the science behind the Bermuda Triangle, and figures a way how to create a time machine. But the key element is with the mutants, who are actually Nemo's former crew.

Without wanting to bore you without too much details: Nemo of course gives his life dying a hero's death, but everything else ends happily ...

 

A film that starts exciting enough with the Union soldiers' escape ... to then quickly lose all steam when they fly through a time portal. Now I don't know who came up with the idea that Jules Verne's novel as such was not science fiction enough and figured it'd be a good idea to include a time portal, but that's besides the point even. What's really annoying is that nothing really is made out of this idea, it doesn't really further the story, and even the clash of the Civil War soldiers and modern women lacks any and all real impact. On top of that, the science the time portal is based on seems more derived from Doctor Who than based on any sound time travel theories.

But even aside from the timetravel nonsense, this is a film that fails to capture its audience: Basically, the story is stripped of all its creepy elements, and reduced to a formula action plot - in other words, there is nothing mysterious about this island. Even the mutants remain disappointingly bland. And the octopusses are not given enough room to develop. And Captain Nemo, a tragic figure in the book, seems to be more like a benign granduncle in this one. And where has the fun playing with retro-futuristic (I think it's called steampunk these days) inventions?

To sum it up in a word, a disappointment!

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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