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18 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Best left on a deserted island!, 29 Sep 2006
This is classed as an erotic thriller. To be honest it fails on both accounts. For a thriller there isn't enough tension or shocks. The story is too simple for it in many ways. A group of people on a boat in the Carribean end up jumping overboard when the boats gets wrecked. Three of them survive and make it to a small island. A couple and a macho servant. Soon the jealously and paranoia creeps in to cause big problems. How or will all three manage to survive on the island together until they are rescued? As for the erotic side the biggest selling point of this is that Kelly Brook gets naked and does a few topless scenes. She does look stunning but all these scenes together last less than a couple of minutes! There a few sex scenes but none of them are that sexy really. The sub plot of a voodoo curse put on them is totally stupid and the movie would be better with out it. You can admire the scenic views of the Carribean and Kelly Brook in her bikkini but this is a poor thriller. A much better film with a similar plot line is Dead Calm which also stars Billy Zane done nearly 20 years ago. I would recommend that over this any day if you like a good thriller. 3/10
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15 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
No, as best it's a 2!, 7 Sep 2006
This eternal-triangle desert-island-castaway yarn gives itself away on the DVD cover with a rather ridiculous, over-sultry, airbrushed action shot of Kelly Brook and the caption "Kelly finally bares all" (even though she tried suing to stop them showing the bits where she - almost - does). There is even a sticker proclaiming "FREE large Kelly Brook poster inside". This, despite the fact that Billy Zane doing his second rate Jack Nicholson impersonation, gets top billing: the only means to sell this film is that it's a chance to get a glimpse of Kelly in the buff.
Actually, this is a phenomenally astute piece of marketing because the only possible reason that you would want to actually WATCH this film is if you want a chance to get a glimpse of Kelly in the buff, assuming you'd missed her in most of the UK men's glamour mags for whom she's already stripped. If you are a rabid fan of Miss Brook, then you should buy the DVD, add the title of the film to the current star rating, pin the poster to your wall, watch, enjoy and read no further.
For the remaining 99% of the population, you should save your money (even Amazon's bargain rental fee is a rip-off in this instance) and put the poster into the paper-recycling bin. This is a film that could have been a tense, psychological thriller with decent casting, directing and a decent script (imagine Jack Nicholson, Antonio Banderas and Kim Basinger being directed by Hitchcock with a Troy Kennedy-Martin script). In the hands of the Europeans, it would have been dark, sensual and introspective, laced with black humour (think Truffaut or Medem); it could even have been a piece of highly charged eroticism. This tries for all three and comes nowhere near succeeding with any: there is no tension, sexual or otherwise, just a series of largely unrelated events with a ridiculous "deux in machina" plot-line involving a slighted ex-girlfriend's voodoo antics that substitutes for any logical plot or character development. There is no subtlety, one-dimensional characters, verbal and visual clichés and such nudity and frolicking as there is, is done with the cloying coyness that only the American cinema can manage. The lowlight comes when she skips into the evening sea naked (so as not to have to sleep in her permanently pristine white bikini whilst wet) only to walk out obviously wearing the bottoms.
There is so much better to choose from in this genre: Dead Calm, Lost ... even Blue Lagoon that there is really no excuse for this film
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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Survival Island, 13 Nov 2006
I wanted to see this movie simply because I heard Kelly Brook would be naked, it's true for a time she is but even that isn't enough to make this a good movie. Brook was good in her role in Smallville Season 1 but she was only a bit part in that, how she got her own movie is beyond me. This is a prime example of how not to make a movie, don't write a bad script, don't hire people who can't act and don't have bad direction.
If you want to see Brook naked search the web or rent this movie, don't ever think about buying it.
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