Good gravy. Nymph starts out pedantic enough, a couple of chicks are meeting up with an old college buddy and his fiance somewhere in the Mediterranean. They hang out, drink, dance, bone, throw up, the usual stuff. Then they head out for a deserted island that houses a deserted prison and run into a mystical fish lady and the salty old sailor she controls with her mind.
Of course it sounds dumb, but the movie is actually very beautiful, and the actors equally so. There's even a stretch where as a standard slash and chase movie it's not all that bad. But then it proceeds to spend the final half hour getting sillier and sillier to the point where you want to put a grappling hook into your head. There are some strange edits as well where it seems that most of the action on land was shot on a cheap ass video camera. It appears as if maybe extra footage was shot to tie the story together, which would make sense considering a good deal of time is spent on an old man explaining things in great detail while some of the stuff brought up earlier in the film gets completely ignored.
Despite a slight glimpse of promise, Nymph falls way, way, way off the cliff, and then gets eaten by a maniacal tuna fish.
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