I caught a moment of this flick on cable and was intrigued. After checking out the positive reviews here I recorded it on my DVR to watch in its entirety later.

The movie does draw you in at the beginning, with the standard "sailors beached on a desolate isle." They soon realize that strange things are afoot here, and we are given to understand that supernatural events are transpiring.

However, the movie then loses its forward motion. You can only have so many ghostly appearances, frightening nighttime walks in the woods, and otherworldy voices singing before your attention starts to flag. The movie lacks the arc of suspenseful tension that you find in Hitchcock's movies. By the long-hoped-for end one is yawning.

Skip it and watch reruns of Gilligan's Island.

The film takes place in 1846 as a group of three sailors get shipwrecked on an uncharted island west of Scotland. The film combines the setting with Greek Siren mythology as one will quickly surmise. The characters were as bland and gray as the sky. The film moved slowly to a climax not worth waiting for.

Guide: F-word. Brief sex. No nudity.

Granted, I didn't know what I was getting into when I sat down to watch the 2018 movie "The Isle" from writer and director Matthew Butler-Hart. But I do enjoy watching movies and will watch just about anything.

I will say that "The Isle" was off to a good start, as the movie took place with the few inhabitants of a strange isle, with even stranger residents. And while the marooned survivors knew little about what was going on, so did the audience. That was definitely a good thing.

But then halfway through, give or take, the movie just slid into a stupor and everything that the movie had built up and shrouded in a haze of mystery was just carelessly torn down without grace.

What works for "The Isle" is the mood of the movie and the isle itself. There is definitely the sense of some great secret hidden beneath the surface and no one is willing to talk about it. And the acting performances, especially by Alex Hassell, were good as well - just a shame that the actors and actresses didn't have all the much to work with in terms of script and storyline.

I managed to sit through the entire movie, although I have to admit that my attention span was drifting aimlessly about after halfway through the movie. The movie was just too boring, to be bluntly honest. There simply was too little happening throughout the entire course of the movie.

My rating of "The Isle" maroons on a mere three out of ten stars.