Read the Empire Movie review of Dead Calm. With too far-fetched a performance by Zane to convince, the film is still a decent stab at a...

Cracking-good thrillers are harder to find these days, possibly because the audiences for them seem to have gotten more demanding.

Woman trapped on yacht with killer. Unfortunate hybrid of escapist suspense and pure trash.

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The key image of "Dead Calm" is of two ships drawing near each other in the middle of a vast, empty expanse of ocean. The emotions generated by this shot,

Though not always entirely credible, Dead Calm is a nail-biting suspense pic [from the novel by Charles Williams] handsomely produced and inventively directed.