"Rachel McAdams is not a secret waiting to be unearthed. She's an Oscar nominee ("Spotlight"), a romantic icon ("The Notebook"), and one of the great comedic villains of the 21st century ( "Mean Girls"). Casting her opposite Dylan O'Brien in a two-hander survival horror-comedy might sound, on paper, like a miscalculation. Dropping a full-blown movie star into a role that demands humiliation, restraint, and a willingness to look foolish can backfire. But here, it's a multiplying factor, and McAdams' star power doesn't flatten "Send Help"."
"It's got the gruesome ingenuity from his breakout debut, "The Evil Dead," fused with the pop-comic precision that made him a revolutionary force for Sony's original " Spider-Man." Ghastly without being grim and morally queasy without being mean, "Send Help" delivers its biggest laughs and gasps through brilliantly managed physical suffering. That includes what may be Raimi's finest puke gag since "Drag Me to Hell,""
Rachel McAdams stars as Linda Liddle, a long-suffering corporate underling, in Send Help, a desert-island survival horror-comedy opposite Dylan O'Brien. Sam Raimi fuses the gruesome ingenuity of The Evil Dead with the pop-comic precision of Spider-Man, creating ghastly but not grim black comedy. The film mines physical suffering for its biggest laughs and shocks, including a standout puke gag and vintage gross-out bits executed with clear confidence. Casting McAdams, an Oscar nominee and established star, amplifies the film's emotional and comic stakes rather than diminishing them. The result is a tightly managed two-hander that balances humiliation, restraint, and outrageousness.
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