28 out of 30 people found the following comment useful:- A very nice movie based on the novel by Radu Tudoran, 22 August 2005 Author: Croitor Cristian from Romania Although the movie follows to a certain point the book by Radu Tudoran it's the approach chosen by the director Mircea Muresan and the exceptional performance by the cast members that makes this movie worth seeing. The action follows the ship "Speranta" (Hope) in it's journey half way around the world, with incredible adventures of her crew-members struggling to get through to their destination... On their journey they have to face the unleashed power of nature, fierce-some pirates, deadly enemies, and many other obstacles you can't even imagine. It's a movie about the struggle that lies in every one of us to succeed were others have failed, to go where no man had gone before, one of the best action movies I've ever seen before...