Another reviewer said here that this movie starts out ok and then goes nowhere and stays there. I entirely agree. Any movie that involves life on a lighthouse (when they were still actually manned) has potential with the solitude and mental anguish of separation and loneliness as companions. I wonder, from the aspect ratio in which this is filmed and the stark black and white, whether this movie was supposed to pay homage to the early Bergman movies. If so, for me it fell a very long way short. Bergman was the master of this kind of movie and, if I'm right, this is a tenth rate attempt to copy. I found this movie unutterably boring despite the action that I guess was supposed to keep it moving along. One of those movies where I anxiously waited for the end credits which took way too long to arrive. I didn't like it at all. JMV