"It's a movie whose entertaining initial premise and shrewd satire are finally damaged by Raimi's need to juice everything up with spurious horror flourishes for the fanbase, on-brand gore eruptions that aren't really scary and undermine the film's believability, turning everything into silliness. The poster and promotional materials promise a horror film, but that isn't really what this is. But what is it?"
"Rachel McAdams plays nerdy Linda Liddle, a single woman living alone with a caged bird. She's devoted to her job. She is an extremely smart researcher in a corporation, but is passed over for promotion by the charmless misogynists running the firm: useless, untalented males in Patrick Bateman suits who depend on her work. Chief among these odious sexists is new CEO Bradley Preston, played by Dylan O'Brien, a vacuous smoothie and nepo princeling whose late father, the company founder,"
Sam Raimi returns with a violent black comedy scripted by Damian Shannon and Mark Swift, set on a desert island where two plane-wreck survivors face off. Rachel McAdams plays resourceful Linda Liddle, a corporate researcher passed over for promotion by sexist executives; Dylan O'Brien plays new CEO Bradley Preston, a vacuous nepo princeling. A plane crash strands Linda and Bradley, forcing a reversal of power that plays as a time-honoured parable with echoes of JM Barrie's The Admirable Crichton and recent festival dramas. The film's initial premise and satire entertain, but Raimi's injected horror flourishes and gore eruptions undercut believability and tilt scenes into silliness.
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