MBunge This is a scary movie that didn't scare me at all. It's a film about female empowerment that thinks not going crazy is some sort of gender-redeeming accomplishment. And Visitors also asks the viewer to guess whether its main character is menaced by ghosts, monsters or her own mind and then offers up a weirdly confusing cop out ending where it turns out to be all three. I suppose I can give these filmmakers credit for trying to mix personal drama, psychological suspense and supernatural horror. That's at least one more subject that most motion pictures attempt to take on. The lackluster end result, however, convinces me that writer Everett De Roche and director Richard Franklin would have been better off keeping things simple.Georgia Perry (Radha Mitchell) is a young Australian woman trying to sale around the world with just her cat for physical company. Mentally, she's bringing along the baggage of her paralyzed father (Ray Barrett), guilt-trip monster of a mother (Susannah York) and her undermining boyfriend (Domenic Purcell) who may or may not be cheating on her. When her boat becomes stuck in fog and becalmed waters in the Indian Ocean, Georgia starts seeing things and the line between reality and madness, safety and danger disappears.Visitors is like a piece of furniture you have to put together yourself. The picture on the box looks good but when you've finished assembling it, there are all these pieces left over and you've got with something that's so unsteady it will collapse at the slightest pressure. If you ask no questions and don't think at all about what you're watching, maybe you can get something out of this movie. If you pay attention to it and expect anything to make sense, you'll be sorely disappointed.The concept of blending physical isolation and emotional turmoil is a solid one, though not original, and adding an element of horror to the mix probably seemed like a good idea. But you need to take those different elements and blend them together where they don't just connect or coincide. The isolation, turmoil and horror need to reflect and reinforce each other. In this case, they're disconnected and sometimes at cross purposes. It's often unclear exactly what Georgia, or the audience, is supposed to be frightened of, which neuters every threat the story offers up. Is the danger that she will fail in her voyage, go crazy or get killed?I mean, if the challenge to Georgia is internal, if this is a story about dealing with her unresolved feelings toward her mother, how does setting the boat on fire to fight off shape-shifting sea spiders fit into that? And the threat is external, if the castigating image of her mother is a ghost or monster, why does that menace simply disappear when Georgia gives up her feelings of family guilt?Rahda Mitchell does a find job here and Visitors looks and sounds okay, though it feels a bit long. The story is just too internally weak and scattered to amount to anything. If you're looking for a film that succeeds at what this one attempted, go check out The Descent. You don't need to welcome Visitors into your life.

Claudio Carvalho 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"

jotix100 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.

gazineo-1 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.