Stranded

I'm in a bad mood this evening, so it's time to watch some fictitious people suffer. (*my own characters are ALL sighing a big sigh of relief that I'm too tired to write this evening*) So here's a movie for your delight!

Stranded



IMBD says: Bride-to-be Carina decides to do take her four friends to an exotic Caribbean island for a hen party to remember. After arriving at the luxurious resort the women take a boat ride to isolated island where they can bask in sun and sand - and it's there that the nightmare begins. The captain of the boat forgets to pick the girls up, leaving them stranded, forcing them to use a deserted house as a makeshift shelter. Then, one by one, the girls start to vanish. With Carina's big day the last thing on the girls minds they start to wonder whether they will see out the night...

Wow. This movie started with so much potential. What could be more ripe for vacation disaster than a group of carefree women at a bacholerette party partying it up in in some non-descript, unnamed island in the Caribbean? I mean, I LOVED the movie Bridesmaids. This was going to be JUST LIKE THAT only in the Caribbean and without comedy, right? Sadly, I must crush your hopes. But still. Things were just BOUND to go dreadfully wrong when the ladies decided to hire a shady dude with a creaky, tiny boat to take them to some nearby island for a private day trip. When the dude doesn't pick them up as scheduled at the end of the day, things start to go wrong. The ladies start disappearing one by one. Now this would be fine and good. Hurray! Serial killer on the island! Except...THEN the movie, just as things might be getting good and right toward the end, starts trying to do too much. It puts in all these bizarre twists and turns. I won't give away everything in case you're dying to see this, but let's just say that ex-boyfriends, Mafia connections, an island adventure package that everyone but the bride was in on, etc. , were all driving forces in the last er...(maybe?) fifteen minutes of this movie.

Vacation Gone Wrong Factor: * * * (eh, sucks to be the ladies that were kidnapped and knocked off)

Did I Care About the Characters Factor: * (one star ONLY for the friend that was originally not going to come but then showed up only to find her friends missing. . . oh, and for the hot random detective guy who showed up during the last 30 minutes. He was worth it.)

Verdict:: * * This movie COULD have gone places, but tropes and silliness and bad acting and a bad script did so prevent that.