My first clue that this was not going to be a good film was after reviewing the credits to see Katie Aselton, was the writer, director and star of the film. Trust me, Katie Aselton is no Sylvester Stallone who pulled off a daily double by writing and starring in the Academy Award Best Bicture of 1976, Rocky. Heck even Sylvester had enough common sense to not try and direct himself in a feature film at such a young age.
I found the whole premise of the film (three childhood friends trying to relive their childhood fun days and put aside their differences from their teenage days and boyfriend triangle love affairs) to be so predictable and oh so boring. Oh yes, and of course three army rejects just happen to be hunting for wildlife on the island and since they cannot find any animals they decide to hunt the girls. Duhh!
Early in the film when the girls first land on Black Rock island they start to squabble, and I just cannot believe that Katie Aselton who was the main focus of this scene wouldn't use her directors chair to yell out "CUT". The squabbling went on for what seemed was an eternity. I found it so irritating. The three male companions who were army rejects had no chance to develop any character of their own, Director Katie just seemed to use their presence as the cliché good versus evil theme, and again I was kind of rooting that the guys would win so the women would just stop arguing amongst themselves. If you like a good wilderness adventure try and see Burt Reynolds in Deliverance. It is kind of the same premise, which is one group of people are the hunters, and the other group are the hunted.
I found no value, no character development in this film and certainly no suspense was evident. I gave it a 1 out of 10 and suggest you pass on this boring and self serving Katie Aselton writer, director, actor not even good enough for a made for TV movie.
I found the whole premise of the film (three childhood friends trying to relive their childhood fun days and put aside their differences from their teenage days and boyfriend triangle love affairs) to be so predictable and oh so boring. Oh yes, and of course three army rejects just happen to be hunting for wildlife on the island and since they cannot find any animals they decide to hunt the girls. Duhh!
Early in the film when the girls first land on Black Rock island they start to squabble, and I just cannot believe that Katie Aselton who was the main focus of this scene wouldn't use her directors chair to yell out "CUT". The squabbling went on for what seemed was an eternity. I found it so irritating. The three male companions who were army rejects had no chance to develop any character of their own, Director Katie just seemed to use their presence as the cliché good versus evil theme, and again I was kind of rooting that the guys would win so the women would just stop arguing amongst themselves. If you like a good wilderness adventure try and see Burt Reynolds in Deliverance. It is kind of the same premise, which is one group of people are the hunters, and the other group are the hunted.
I found no value, no character development in this film and certainly no suspense was evident. I gave it a 1 out of 10 and suggest you pass on this boring and self serving Katie Aselton writer, director, actor not even good enough for a made for TV movie.