Mysterious Island (2005)

• Year: 2005
• Released: 17 Sep 2005
• Country: United States, Thailand, Germany
• Adwords: 1 nomination
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0448965/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/mysterious_island
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English
• Genre: Sci-Fi, Action, Adventure
• Runtime: 172 min
• Writer: Jules Verne, Adam Armus, Nora Kay Foster
• Director: Russell Mulcahy
• Cast: Kyle MacLachlan, Danielle Calvert, Gabrielle Anwar

	4.3/10
	31% – Audience

Mysterious Island Storyline

To escape evils of the Civil War, Cyrus removes his small family and random war prisoners by way of hot air balloon. Once landing on an island, the group finds they are surrounded by danger from giant insects and gold-craving pirates. Turned away by the only safe haven on the island, owned by Captain Nemo, played by Sir Patrick Stewart, the group is forced to find shelter and survive.

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Mysterious Island: One of the worst Verne “Adaptations”

Straight off the bat let me say this is a low 3/10, I’m being generous on this one.

Standing at three hours in length this very very very very very very loose adaptation of the Jules Verne classic Mysterious Island is a sight to behold for all the wrong reasons.

On paper it has everything going for it, it’s based on the works of Jules Verne and stars Patrick Stewart, Kyle MacLachlan and Vinnie Jones……….okay forget about that last one.

So what went wrong? Well considering the cast the whole thing looks so very cheap, the cgi is dreadful and many of the costumes look they’ve been ripped from a run of the mill 5 buck costume shop.

The acting is such that they just don’t want to be there, Vinnie Jones is worse than he’s ever been. Let’s make clear I have nothing against him, I think he has his place in the industry and he was hilarious in Eurotrip (2004) but right here is a performance so bad, so tacky I can’t put it into mere words.

And then there is just how loose of an adaptation it is. This simply isn’t in anyway shape or form the Mysterious Island, it’s hard to even call this an adaptation because the content has been overhauled to such an extent you could easily have called it something else and nobody would have compared it to Jules Vernes work.

It makes you wonder why they bother doing that. Regardless when you take all those things into consideration it’s hard to see this as anything but an embarrassment with a cast who look out of place in this travesty.

The Good:

Patrick Stewart

The Bad:

Yet another not even remotely loyal loose adaptation

Vinnie Jones really hams it up

Cast are simply too good for this

Shoddy cgi

Enjoyable enough adventure flick with dubious special effects…

First of all, I have to say that this 2005 action adventure movie’s cover far over-sells the movie by quite a mile or two. The movie’s cover looked very interesting, and thus I opted to sit down and watch this movie from writers Adam Armus and Nora Kay Foster as I stumbled upon it in 2022.

And of course the fact that the movie had a pretty nice cast ensemble also helped to win me over.

And I have to say that “Mysterious Island” from director Russell Mulcahy was watchable enough for what it was. It is a cheesy and campy adventure for the entire family. Complete with insanely dubious CGI and green screen effects, pirates, American Civil War action, gargantuan monsters and swashbuckling. So yeah, “Mysterious Island” had a little bit for everyone. However, don’t go getting your hopes up for a grand adventure, because “Mysterious Island” is a movie that you will watch once and then never look at it again.

I have to say that the cast list in “Mysterious Island” was impressive, as it had the likes of Kyle MacLachlan, Patrick Stewart, Omar Gooding, Vinnie Jones, Roy Marsden and Tom Mison on the cast list. So there were quite a handful of good talents and familiar faces here.

The special effects have to be adressed here, because for a 2005 movie, I was astounded at how laughably bad and fake the special effects were. Especially the scene where Cyrus was on top of the scorpion. But the effects in “Mysterious Island” have to be experienced and seen first hand, because talking about how bad they are will do them no justice.

Based on a classic novel from Jules Verne, “Mysterious Island” provided me with adequate entertainment. And as such, then my rating of the 2005 movie lands on a five out of ten stars.

Fascinating adventures and colorful scenarios along with colossal animals

This new adaptation from Jules Verne novel starts on American Civil War , after the battle of Richmond . An Union POWs , an official named Cyrus (Kyle McLachlan) , Pencroff (Jason Durr) , an African-American soldier (Omar Gooding) , a mother (Gabrielle Anwar) and her daughter (Calvert) escape in an observation balloon and terminate stranded on a lonely South Pacific island . They must use their talents to survive dangers , facing off pirates (Vinnie Jones) and devise a way to return home . At the uncharted island find gigantic bugs and huge animals , such as large serpents , giant spiders , monstrous dragonfly , enormous rat , among them . Of course , they also encounter captain Nemo (Patrick Stewart) and his loyal helper Joseph (Roy Marsden) and his riveting submarine of the future called Nautilus . Furthermore , an unstable volcano on the edge of eruption .

This follow-up to ¨20.000 leagues under the sea¨ is an exciting fantasy-adventure full of special effects created by means of computer-generator . The runtime is overlong with several incidents and sub-plots , taking too much liberties from original novel . The cast is great but wasted , as weak performance by Patrick Stewart , unforgettable Star Trek’s Piccard . Brilliant and shimmer cinematography , being filmed on location in an island of Thailand . The motion picture was middlingly directed by Russel Mulcahy.

Other versions based on this classic story are the following ones and filmed before : 1) Silent rendition made in 1929 , 2) Mysterious island directed by Cy Endfield (1961) , and starred by Michael Craig , Joan Greenwood and Herbert Lom as Nemo , with creatures designed by the master Ray Harryhausen , it’s the best adaptation , and 3) European take on Mysterious island (1973) made by Juan Antonio Bardem with Omar Shariff as captain Nemo , Rik Battaglia , Gerard Tichy , among others.