Megan is the lone survivor of an attempt to break the Atlantic rowing record from Newfoundland to the UK with four crew members. Having washed up on the Orkney island of Hoy, Megan spends most of the present tense recovering in bed and recounting events to DCI MacKelly. Flashbacks and startling jump cuts suggest blood and screams while the audience waits to learn whether threats were sharks, human killers, or psychosis. The narrative uses unreliable narration and controlled reveals, though motivational logic falters at times and the final five minutes become murky. Storm and sea effects are notably impressive given the small cast and budget.
Having washed up on the Orkney island of Hoy, Megan spends most of the film's present tense in bed recovering when she's not telling DCI MacKelly (Tam Dean Burn) what happened after she, her best friend Lexi (a sparky Sophie Skelton), captain Daniel (Akshay Khanna) and mystery man Mike (Nick Skaugen), a last-minute replacement for Lexi's boyfriend Adam (Mark Strepan), set off on their voyage.
But how reliable is Megan as a narrator? Writer-director Matthew Losasso, making his feature debut with this, dispenses the reveals with skill, although there are a few stumbles in the motivational logic and a somewhat murky final five minutes of twistiness, which maybe torques the narrative a half turn too much. Nevertheless, for a film with such a small, mostly unknown cast and presumably a limited budget, the effects are very impressive, especially when the boat is storm tossed on waves the size of whales.
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