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14 out of 15 people found the following comment useful :-
Pretty Nifty Sci-Thriller / Drama., 30 January 2005

Author: suspiria10 from The Void

Georgia Perry is an ambitious and independent minded Australian woman determined to sail solo around the world. The first several weeks go off without a hitch but as the weeks of loneliness take their toll so do the strangeness. All matters of weird goings on occur such as having conversation s with her cat and dead relatives. But is this just a case of cabin fever or is their something else at play here, maybe something otherworldly?

I'll give the authors credit for coming up with an original SciFi / Drama / Thriller hybrid that works on several levels. The direction and photography is pretty dynamic considering that 90% of the running time takes place on a sailboat. On a film like this the lead actor is a core part of the film since they will be the one holding the ship together and Radha Mitchell fits the bill perfectly. She takes us through all the emotions, from familial tragedy to terror; she does a bang up job. Surprisingly there are even some good tension and a boo or two.

"Visitors" is an excellent mostly-drama that stays interesting and engaging due to a good script and an excellent lead performance.

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Great Deception, 11 July 2005

Author: Claudio Carvalho from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

While facing the challenge of sailing alone around the world in one hundred and forty days, the Australian Georgia Perry (Radha Mitchell) fights against the "ghosts" of her life in her loneliness, including an unresolved relationship with her mother and the engagement with her unfaithful fiancé.

"Visitors" was a great deception for me. Since "Pitch Black", I have been a fan of the actress Radha Mitchell and I have watched many of her movies. Therefore, I expected that "Visitors" would be a great film. Unfortunately, the confused screenplay, using flashbacks to explain the innermost contradictions and conflicts of the character Georgia Perry, begins with a great atmosphere and very intriguing, but does not work well and in the end makes the movie sometimes boring and messy. The idea is good, but the screenplay is horrible. My vote is five.

Title (Brazil): "Visitors"

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OK thriller, 26 January 2004
Author: ctomvelu from usa

Not so much a horror flick as a psychological thriller, as a young woman begins hallucinating on a long solo sea voyage. She starts to see (and communicate with) her dead mother, her soon-to-be-deceased-and-legless father (with his legs grown back), a bunch of Malaysian pirates and even some oversized spiders that appear to be right out of LOST IN SPACE. Danger, Will Robinson! Or in this case, Wilhemina Robinson! Oh, and she her cat talk to each other -- mentally, of course. The cat sounds a little like the cat from SABRINA THE TEENAGE WITCH. A tad far-fetched, and stretched to fill out a theatrical running time that it maybe didn't deserve, VISITORS will certainly appeal to anyone who has ever made a solo sojurn of any length and isolation. Similar to DEADCALM in an odd sort of way. Radha "Pitch Black" Mitchell gives a bravura performance as the lonely lass with the classy ass -- it doesn't hurt that she spends most of the flick in bra and panties or a very tiny bikini. She has one absolutely hysterical scene where she mocks her sponsor, a cosmetics company that forces her to change the name of her vessel to the company's name. Lots of flashbacks and at times her hallucinations result in an awful lot of people crowding aboard her tiny yacht. So the cast is considerably larger than one might expect for what is essentially a Robinson Crusoe-type of tale.

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8 out of 10 people found the following comment useful :-
Atmospheric but meandering and confusing, 3 January 2004
Author: Auric2003 from New York, NY

The general premise of this film is a time-worn reliable gimmick: the lone woman in jeopardy. In this case, an interesting slow-build up to the main plot device keeps audiences engrossed: a 25 year old adventuress embarks upon a solo sailboat journey around the globe. While suffering through an extended period of being becalmed in tropical waters, she begins to believe she is being visited by ghostly apparitions who intend to kill her. Initially, the plot is intriguing as we wonder whether these nocturnal fears are real or imagined. However, as the film progresses, it deviates from being a straight forward thriller and introduces a lot of awkward goobledy-gook in which our heroine is visited by ghosts of her departed parents, menacing pirates, long dead relatives, and ultimately some over-sized spiders! Before long, the tiny vessel is as crowded as the S.S. Poseidon. The acting is very credible and the photography is also admirable, but director Richard Franklin makes the cardinal sin of showing us far too much of the mysterious visitors and their omnipresent status eventually makes them no more menacing than party guests who refuse to leave even though it's the wee small hours of the morning. The cumbersome screenplay degenerates into a confusing mess, and a completely unsatisfying climax that betrays our expectations that there will be a "sting in the tail" ending that explains most of what has preceded it. In all, a noble effort, but a failed one.

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7 out of 9 people found the following comment useful :-
Georgia and her mind, 3 May 2005

Author: jotix100 from New York

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This Australian film showed up on cable recently. Not knowing anything about it, we took a chance that paid well. Directed by Richard Franklin, this film is a psychological study of the mind of a young woman who has lived a tragic life and her only escape is going to the sea in search of adventure.

Georgia Perry, when we first meet her, is seen going through the preparations for a solo voyage around the world. This has only been accomplished by a few before her. We meet her boyfriend, Luke, who gets her into accepting to be sponsored by a cosmetic firm. The only problem being that the yacht's name must be changed into the sponsor's a bad omen for sailors.

Next, we see Ms. Perry going on her voyage with her cat as the only companion. Georgia suddenly gets stuck in tropical waters where there is no air to propel her sails out of that rough spot. It is at this moment that Georgia begins experiencing the visitations. We realize they are only happening in her mind, but Mr. Franklin makes us believe these apparitions are real.

Georgia must battle with her dead mother, who will not leave her alone. Evidently, Carolyn Perry was a tormented soul, probably caused by the tragic accident that rendered her husband impotent and bound to a wheel chair. Georgia battles all her demons in the yacht. At the end, one sees the vessel coming to the finishing line, but surprise, surprise, Georgia turns around to the open sea. In a way, this is her liberating point. That scene alone will leave many viewers confused.

Rhada Mitchell does a great Georgia. Her hallucinations seem so real, we worry for her life. Susannah York plays Carolyn, the mother. Ms. York is not seen as often as one must like these days, so she is a welcome addition to the film. Ray Barrett plays the father and Dominic Purcell the boyfriend.

A film that was a total surprise made more enjoyable by Mr. Franklin's direction.

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Average boat trip, 3 August 2003

Author: MyersH78 from Karlsruhe, Germany

"Visitors" has got a strong and likable lead. Being a fan of `Pitch Black' I decided to check this one out at the Fantasy Filmfest. The premise is promising and the atmosphere on the isolated sailing boat comes across nicely. At the theatre the surround sound is very effective because mysterious noises come from different directions. The film isn't boring but it isn't new and original either. The ending is disappointing so my rating is a solid 5. I expected a tense psycho thriller, but it isn't very exciting. You've seen everything in other and better films before.

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A rendezvous with fear, 25 February 2005

Author: gazineo-1 from Brasilia, Brazil

First of all, 'Visitors, The' is not a common thriller. Far from that, the movie tells us a story about the rendezvous of a young yacht-woman (Mitchell)in a solitaire voyage around the world in a little boat with her own problems, griefs, fear and misunderstandings of a whole life. In this process, her mind derived away in a dangerous way, in which she is confronted with hallucinations involving her deceased parents, a strange lover and even her only companion in the trip - a cat named 'Taco' - starts to 'talk' to her. Good premise, even an intelligent one, but the movie lacks an indispensable deepness that the story must claim. Because of that, the result is a bit too contrived, not passionate or challenging. In fact, after some time in front of the TV, you'll feel a certain disappointment because a good idea was just mistreated. Radha Mitchell is good but her competence and her beauty are not strong enough to make this one a remarkable movie.

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pretty darn good, 24 February 2004

Author: Eileen McHenry from Matango Island West

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I liked this one. It's a phantasmal little movie about a woman sailing alone around the world, becalmed in the Indian Ocean when she's only a few days' sail from the end of her trip. She starts to see all kinds of strange and troubling things on board her yacht, including the ghost of her mother, pirates that appear and disappear, and a Maori tribesman in traditional native costume. The movie offers three possible explanations for why this is happening: A) she's been alone too long and is going bazongas, B) she's really seeing ghosts, and C) the magic crabs hitching a ride on the boat's hull are creating the whole situation. I like the crab theory myself, but the movie leaves the question tantalizingly unresolved.

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Unwelcome Visitors, 9 March 2004
Author: TheatreX from Louisville, KY

A woman who is making a solo trip on a yacht around the world (with her cat) ends up in the doldrums; in other words she's becalmed at sea somewhere in the Indian Ocean and drifts for days. I felt encouraged that this was an Aussie film, but that in itself wasn't enough to make me enjoy this very much. Mostly it's Georgia and her cat hanging out, and Georgia may or may not be losing her mind. Because not only does the cat talk to her, she's having unwanted guests as well. And quite a variety of them, too. Mom, dad, pirates, Maoris, weird little crab thingies, what the HELL? And nobody is supposed to set foot on the boat during her trip or else she's disqualified and loses the money that she's supposed to get for some cosmetic company that sponsored her. Anyway, a good deal of this is too ambiguous to understand what's going on, and the ending? Well, it was an interesting twist I suppose but it was also a cop out and made even less sense than the rest of the film. No keeper, throw this one back.

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OH, GEORGIA!!! PLEASE, REPLY, GEORGIA!!!! Oh Well, She Must Be On That Darn Boat Again., 16 November 2007

Author: derek kac from The Pizza Shop

This was Everett DeRoche's first film screen writing in 17 Years. In case you don't know, he wrote Long Weekend, Road Games, Patrick and Razorback. He's spent the years before this writing for TV Shows, and for a few TV Movies.

Visitors was the last gathering of Director Richard Franklin and Everett DeRoche, who together made the classics Patrick, Road Games, and even killer monkey flick Link. Visitors stars the ever beautiful Radha Mitchell, Prison Break's Dominic Purcell and old-time actor Ray Barrett.

Unfort. despite having a good director, a good writer and a good cast - also a good budget, by the looks of it. This film fails in a way. In one way it's really interesting stuff, in another it is bad. I found it funny that it didn't get an AFI Nomination, since every film ever made in Australia gets an AFI Nomination or fifty.

Still, I found myself irritated by this film. Writer DeRoche thinks this film should be burnt, and even though it isn't awful, it isn't very good and the writer/director team deserved something better. But, I guess Franklin really wanted to make this film, and what would DeRoche say; "No, film 'Storm Warning' instead"?

But now Franklin has passed away, so this would be the forever last teaming of these two Australia icons. Still, DeRoche has three movies coming out in the near future, one being a remake of Long Weekend.

Directing - 7/10 Writing - 6/10 Music - 6/10 Production - 8/10 Film - 5/10

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