problem with these type of movie be that literally dozen of them be be make each year . luckily for use only a handful be give a theatrical release and while the others be be push straight to video or tv and such a this movie . the foremost problem of this movie be really it originality . it one of those movie which use the die hard formula of a tough but troubled guy be at the wrong place at the wrong time . in this case it a character play by casper van dien and who work for a security agency that thoroughly test safety procedure for company and individual . in this case he be send to a cruise ship and which of course get hijack . you can see this movie a a sort of mix of die hard and air force one and the movie doesn not even try to conceal that those two movie be probably it big source of inspiration . so really and you can not regard this movie a an original one at all . it use all of the clichés out of the book and this movie really doesn not offer any surprise or anything that remotely resemble anything original . like you can expect from a movie such a this and it have a very weak script . or rather say and it feature some very lazy writing . like i say before and the movie feature nothing original but also the actual story itself feature some element which be far from likely and be just plain ridicule truthfully . i mean and hijack an huge cruise ship with only about 8 guy and of which halve only carry some small gun and then ask for a ransom of only 10 million dollar and for a ship that be about worth 10 time that amount be itself already quite ridicule . how do they even intend to split that money afterward . every person get just over a million or something . that hardly profitable for such a big and risky undertaking . and then there be the case of take the passenger hostage . somehow they manage to take all passenger on the huge ship hostage and they manage to put them inside one room and with only one guy with his pistol and which he can not even seem to be able to hold right and watch them . you never see more than like 30 hostage however and a if they be all the people who be aboard at the time . also when the van dien character go look for his son and vice versa and no matter which room they walk in through on the huge cruise ship and they always bump into each other instantly . just some example of the lazy write within the movie . but it of course be an action flick and so the story of course becomes secondary . but then again and it not a if this movie feature any good action at all . halve of the actor look a if they have never hold a weapon before and the movie be fill with some ridicule slow motion . it really become laughable at point . of course the movie also doesn not feature the best actor and though i must say that casper van dien really isn not a bad action hero and actor and as far a the genre and b movie circuit be concern . he just however also suffer from the same problem a tom cruise while no matter how old he be and he just never look convince enough to play the father of a teenager . van dien once start out a a promise new young actor but star in movie like this really doesn not help his career much . he probably capable of something well and though he be never really give the right opportunity to show it . all of the other actor also do a fair enough job but their character be just so formulaic that they never truly become interesting . oh well and it not the bad genre movie i have ever see but it also ain not exactly the most original or memorable one either . 4/10 .