- Content: “Disrespectful Boss Mistreats the Wrong Employee”
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What You Need To Know:
SEND HELP delivers a well-made, suspenseful game of cat and mouse. The movie’s full of revenge, deception, and mistreatment, coming from and to both characters. It ends in a twisty ending that might dissatisfy some viewers. Sadly, SEND HELP has lots of bloody violence, harsh foul language and immoral behavior, with a strong dark, nihilistic and abhorrent worldview. So, the movie’s ultimately unacceptable.
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No smoking or drugs; and,
More Detail:
Linda Little, a corporate strategist at a sizable company, earns a promised promotion by the boss after many long years of dedication. However, that boss dies, leaving the business in the hands of his son, Bradley, who promptly hands the promotion to his old frat buddy. Furthermore, Bradley shows clear disgust at Linda’s awkwardness and just general appearance. Also, he secretly plans to transfer her to a dead-end position – for good.
However, an upset Linda protests Bradley’s decision, which impresses him just enough to ask her to accompany him, his frat buddy and other associates on an important trip to finalize a company merger. Or so she thinks.
It turns out, however, that Bradley just invites her to do the work none of the others want to do. During this flight, he plays an audition tape she made for the show SURVIVOR. Humiliated and quite peeved, Linda deletes her work and decides to never work for Bradley again. Then, the plane explodes.
After she witnesses a few particularly gruesome deaths of all the side characters and crash landing, Linda washes up on the shore of a deserted island. She regains her senses before she spots Bradley nearby, also having survived but with a heavily injured leg. Begrudgingly, she saves his life and nurses him back to health, an act for which he’s more frustrated with than thankful.
Linda proves she can survive their dire situation. She quickly builds shelter, gathers supplies and finds consumable food. Bradley, meanwhile, struggles to accept what happens and tries to either take charge or do things on his own multiple times. What follows is a back-and-forth game of cat-and-mouse where Bradley needs Linda to survive but still very much hates her and often tries to outwit or outright betray her. Linda, meanwhile, enjoys how much Bradley has to rely on her and takes advantage of it.
For those who are familiar with Raimi’s work, SEND HELP delivers exactly what you might expect. It’s moves at a quick pace and leans into overtly bloody. Made on a budget of $40 million, it appears most of that went into special effects and CGI. The movie’s graphic quality does not overshadow the performances of the co-leads, however. McAdams is phenomenal as Little, an awkward but formidable persona who over time proves just how in control she is of this situation. Meanwhile, O’Brien deftly balances a character torn between trying (and failing) to assume leadership over Little, and a guy whose only means of survival depends on her.
SEND HELP contains revenge, mistreatment and deceit, coming from and to both characters. The story ends with a twisty ending that might dissatisfy some viewers. SEND HELP contains bloody violence, harsh foul language and immoral behavior. The two lead characters sometimes attempt to cooperate with each other, but they ultimately fail. So, SEND HELP presents a dark, nihilistic, abhorrent worldview that produces in an unacceptable movie.
