Deadly Honeymoon (2010 TV Movie) User Reviews

Terrible male actor.

[info-6175 · 4/10 · 23 September 2011]

I have seen a few movies and TV-series that stars Summer Glau, Terminator: The Sarah Connor chronicles, Serenity and The Cape. She does a terrific job with all of these character. And even in this low-budget movie she does a good character, but the problem does not seem to be Summer, but rather the male actor she is playing against. He is very 2 dimensional, there is no natural charm, no feelings expressed in the face and he seem to nervous and too rushed to get into character.

I understand that this is a very low budget film, but even the directing and script is on par with such a low budget movie. I just wish the male actor was someone else, it would have risen the movie to another level.

4/10 because of a good enough script and Summer Glau's performance.

I just keep wondering...

[rachelstuartwhite · 4/10 · 18 December 2018]

Why on Earth do they keep putting the FBI agent in the same halter top get up just in different colors and patterns?? Is this all that a female FBI agent owns for vacation wear? Probably not. Just like how the captain wouldn't forget ahead in an "Oscar Oscar Oscar" situation (morse code/maritime term for man overboard). Protocol is to stop, search and immediately turn around. Passengers are informed of change of itinerary. But, lifetime didn't get the message. They blame the missing persons on some annoying Europeans and then the euro trash blames the wife. Then the FBI agent shows up in a little black dress and heels at the crime scene during daylight, because duh, that's what we all wear on a cruise during daylight. Another peeve: the couple was together for "three years" yet later there is the scene where the wife says, "is this how it's gonna be the rest of our lives?" As he chugs vodka outta the bottle: this is surprising her? The main characters suck just as bad as the Hungarian scapegoats. It has it's moments if you're not hung up on the details like me. If you like dinner murder mysteries from your local town's community theater, you'll love this.

Man Overboard!

[sol-kay · 4/10 · 22 August 2010]

***SPOILERS*** The film "Deadly Honeymoon" seems to have been based on a true story which is why I suspect it's ending is so unlike in the made for TV movies you usually see on the Lifetime Movie Network. Even the one's based on true stories! What's so frustrating about the movie is that it tries so hard to give us the impression that the two victims in it the newly wed Forrests Lindsey & Trevor, Summer Glau & Chis Carmac, are just a fun loving couple on their honeymoon cruise just looking to have a good time with each other and nothing else. In fact both of them are anything but and have as many bad traits as the "Happy Hungarians" Ben Luca & Max, Adam Tsekham Peter Katona & Sergey Russu, looking for action or young single as well as married women on board the ship!

After a night of drinking gambling and partying Trevor ends up lost with his by now drugged and boozed up wife Lindsey out cold with both her husband and memory gone! It was the "Happy Hungarians" who were partying with the Forrests who are the main suspects in Travor's disappearance! In fact it's later reviled on one the ship's security cameras that lover boy Luca, the romantic of the three "Happy Hungarians", was making out with Lindsey while her husband was out drinking and snorting coke in the ship's bar!

It's one of the ship's passengers the busty FBI woman agent Gwen Merced, Zoe McLellan, who's also looking for action, in that she's just separated from her husband, who smells a rat in all this missing person, Trevor Forrest, business going on the ship. Checking out all the facts Gwen finds out that things aren't exactly as Lindsey said that they were in Trevor being the all American boy she said he was. In fact Trevor was a party going coke head who lived off his parents money without a job or future in his father's business or anyone's else's. What even more disturbing is that the sweet and innocent as the morning snow Lindsey was not that much better!

***SPOILERS*** We do in fact get to see what happened to Trevor but it's so sloppily done that you don't know if it's for real or a drug induced hallucination on Lindsey's part. As for Lindsey herself she flies the coop, or ship, on a helicopter for first Tahiti and then New York City where she opens up a fancy clothing boutique on swanky Fifth Avenue! How in hell did Lindsey, who was dead broke, have the money to open up a business like that with out even having the cash for a down payment to do it? It's with the 3 million dollar settlement that she got from both the cruise company, in keeping what happened on the ship from becoming public, and Trevor's parents, in not exposing their son's drug and alcohol addictions, in thus having Lindsey keep her mouth shut!

Till Death Do Us Part

[wes-connors · 5/10 · 8 January 2012]

After an opening news correspondent foreshadows doom, we find handsome Chris Carmack (as Trevor Forrest) and sexy Summer Glau (as Lindsey Ross) going on a luxury honeymoon cruise. The couple does so much partying, nobody can figure out how an unfortunate tragedy occurred. Gambling, sex, and drugs are involved. Also keep an eye on three mysterious Hungarian men. Conveniently aboard ship is nicely-figured divorcée and vacationing FBI agent Zoe McLellan (as Gwen Merced), who tries to solve the case. Attractive ship security officer Erik Palladino (as Alan Sherrick) is also involved...

This "Lifetime" TV movie begins with the disclaimer: "The following story is fictional and does not depict any actual person or events." Producers apparently passed on the real story rights, or couldn't make a financial deal with the families involved. This story is very similar to the case of George and Jennifer Smith, who played out their tragedy on cruise ship in 2005. The story became a US TV favorite, with FOX "News" correspondent Greta Van Susteren leading the charge; she even brought her FOX crew to tour the bloody ship. This version seems plausible to a point, and Ms. Glau is convincingly cagey.

***** Deadly Honeymoon (4/25/10) Paul Shapiro ~ Summer Glau, Chris Carmack, Zoe McLellan, Erik Palladino

Deadly Dull

[sneedsnood · 2/10 · 8 August 2015]

Based on a recent true event, this colorless movie tells the tale of a young couple on their honeymoon cruise, but the starring role seems to have gone to Zoe McLellan as the ship's social director. She gets all the close ups and glamor shots, and her glistening cleavage is most on display throughout the film. It makes for an odd and lopsided tale, since she is at the center of every crime-solving scene, an unlikely place for the ship's social director to be. The story concerns the mysterious death of the handsome young husband, played by chiseled Chris Carmac looking as if he had just stepped out of an Abercrombie & Fitch ad, which in fact he has. The former model has little to do but look attractive, which he does in a generic way that evokes countless other male models of recent vintage. His churlish young wife is played by Summer Glau, glowering her way through the honeymoon. Did some Russian playboys kill the husband, or did the wife do it in a fit of jealous rage? We may never know, and this dull movie does little to pique our interest. By the end, you probably won't care who did it. There is no atmosphere, no sense of being at sea or aboard a ship. This is a drab, cheap snooze with an unknown cast set in a variety of colorless rooms and offices. Deadly indeed.

Silent but deadly

[pomeu-63850 · 2/10 · 18 July 2020]

This movie is like a big fart. It's stinky, it's embarrassing, but thankfully it passes pretty quickly. I estimate the budget to be one Olive Garden dinner for two, and the movie is about as good as that.

True ?

[Theo Robertson · 4/10 · 18 June 2013]

Tis might have supposedly have been inspired by a true life crime case . I say supposedly because the TV company behind this film had to publish one of those disclaimers about any living people or real life events being entirely coincidental ? Was this a double bluff or were the company genuinely worried about being sued in litigation happy America . One can only speculate because " true life crimes " are a shaky subject . Remember BADLANDS where Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek went on a killing spree ? that was supposedly inspired by a real case of serial killing until it became clear that a certain protagonist was up for parole so the movie company started getting cold feet and insisted it wasn't inspired by real life . The premise to DEADLY HONEYMOON might share a basic and vague connection to a real life crime where a newly wed husband disappears aboard a cruise ship but surely nearly every film outside the fantasy genre could claim it too mirrors real events and people though be it in a loose form ?

Actually DEADLY HONEYMOON might actually benefit from being a low budget TVM . This means not very good actors . Why is that a benefit you ask ? Well a man disappears and his wife is a prime suspect for his disappearance . This means the audience aren't asking themselves if the director should have cast a pool cue as the lead actress since it'd be less wooden , or if Summer Glau has less range than a water pistol but is her character really upset about her husband going missing or is it all just an act to cover up the crime . Same as the Hungarians with their generic foreign accents which will have you asking maybe they're Romanian Gypsies or stowaways from Latin America

One aspect of being made for television that did surprise me is that the early sections of the TVM has the shots relatively close up , especially on the cruise ship deck where the swimming pool is located . We also don't get to see a long tracking establishing shot where the protagonists board the ship which instantly made me think that a lack of budget meant the production team couldn't get access to a real ship and were going to manfully spend the story trying and failing to convince the audience the story was taking place outside of a TV studio . Strangely later on we do see shots that are undoubtedly film on board a ship . Okay it's probably not a cruise ship but it's still a sea going vessel . I'm guessing director Paul Shapiro doesn't know how to handle an establishing shot ?

Expected less but Summer Glau saved the day

[majdic_stojan · 8/10 · 25 September 2014]

The movie actually positively surprised me. Seeing the rating I expected a lot less than it actually delivered. OK, the movie still isn't exactly the best. The highlight of the movie is Summer Glau, who managed to portray the confused, but still very rationally acting bride excellently. The movie might not be the best, but she did an awesome job, probably saving the whole movie. Besides her, I enjoyed the performance of Zoe McLellan, while Chris Carmack did a very poor job in the movie. It's clear that Lindsey didn't plan what happened on the ship, but after it happened, she tried to get the best out of it. I believe that she actually loved her cheating husband.

***SPOILERS***

Quite a few clichés in the movie – bad guys again the ones from Eastern Europe (are there no bad guys in US?), the ship's captain doing everything and anything to keep the affair away from public, an FBI agent on leave but she's immediately in operation (and she's, what a surprise, divorced) and so on. Under the balcony on which everything happened there were no lifeboats. How come that the camera ended in a lifeboat? Did Lindsey hide it there? She would have to be extremely stupid to do so. She'd probably just toss it into the sea, gone forever.

But, in the end … quite enjoyable little less than 90 minutes. I've seen a lot of worse movies and rating of 4,6 is too low for my taste. But I admit, that it's definitely not everyone's taste.

Trevor is a Big Pushover

[lavatch · 8/10 · 18 April 2020]

In "Deadly Honeymoon," the filmmakers are successful in creating the ambience of a lavish wedding followed by a spectacular cruise to Tahiti while simultaneously developing some of the sleaziest characters imaginable.

There is key line spoken by the vivacious protagonist, Lindsay Ross Forrest, as she is being questioned by an FBI agent about her missing husband, who happened to fall overboard into the Pacific Ocean. Lindsay tells Agent Merced that she is accustomed to getting whatever she wants in life. All she has to do is to picture an outcome in her mind and then will it into being by the force of her personality. Translated into cinematic terms: Whatever Lola wants, Lola gets!!!

There was good suspense on board the cruise ship as a night of gambling and carousing results in Trevor's disappearance. After a thorough search, it is concluded that he fell overboard. Search and rescue quickly turns into search and recovery. Trevor is eventually declared dead.

But who done it????

At first, it appears as if three Hungarians with checkered pasts may be suspects after Trevor flew into a jealous stupor when Luka was dancing with Lindsay. One thing may have led to another. But the disheveled cabin and blood on the pillow suggest at the least some foul play.

The wily Agent Merced pieces together the true story, only missing a motive in the killing of Trevor. The catty Lindsay cuts a deal with the oily ship's captain to be flown by helicopter to Tahiti. A deal is cut, and Lindsay receives an improbable three-million-dollar settlement from the cruise line.

The performances were excellent, and the costuming was superb for a television movie that did not have the budget of "Titanic." The filmmakers also subtly implied that travel on a cruise ship has resulted in unresolved crimes, primarily against women, as there is little legal recourse in international waters on a ship flying under the flag of Liberia. In the case of the fictional "Deadly Honeymoon," will Lindsay take her secrets to the grave? Or, will the FBI agent in the halter top get lucky with a final clue to answer the question: What really happened to Trevor?

Deadly Honeymoon-It's Not Exactly the Love Boat ***

[edwagreen · 8/10 · 28 June 2011]

Exciting, intriguing drama. A young couple wed with all the picture taking, happiness and a future laced with love. For their honeymoon, they embark on a cruise to Tahiti. It is on the trip that tragedy ensues. Our perfect couple were not perfect at all. Destiny played a hand that they would meet up with 3 ruthless guys. Everything seems to play into the hands of the real killer or killers. There is even an attempt at extortion on the part of the killer against the Cruise Line.

This is a story of immaturity, greed, and a well-conceived plan by the killer to get away with this.

There are sidebar stories such as a possible romance between a vacationing female divorced FBI agent and one of the captain's crew. This film will keep you guessing, but you should get it by the snide sneers of the killer.