Overview
Two colleagues become stranded on a deserted island, the only survivors of a plane crash. On the island, they must overcome past grievances and work together to survive, but ultimately, it's a battle of wills and wits to make it out alive.
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| Country: | US, Australia, Thailand |
| Genre: | Horror/Supernatural, Thriller, Comedy |
| Production Companies: | Raimi Productions, 20th Century Studios, TSG Entertainment |
| Watched by: | 4 091 of 1 008 673 |
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Cast
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Rachel McAdams
Linda
Chris Pang
Dylan O'Brien
Dennis Haysbert
Edyll Ismail
Xavier Samuel
Thaneth Warakulnukroh
Emma Raimi
Kristy Best
Polly Perera
Francesca Waters
Barbara
BF
Brad Flett
Trainer
AP
Anuwat Pornladawong
Caretaker #1
BT
Benjawan Teawsomboonkit
Caretaker #2
AS
Aaron Shore
Office Bro
NM
Nana Miya
Flight Attendant
OS
Olivia Sawyer
Applicant
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Bairum
02 Apr 14:28
MISERY 2: DRAG ME TO HEAVEN
Linda Liddle has been working for an international corporation for many years and dreams of a long-awaited promotion that is about to happen. But the place of the former head of the company is occupied by his son Bradley. And the latter, of course, has other plans. However, seeing Linda's ability to work (and naivety), Bradley takes her on a business trip, which turns into a plane crash. Now Linda has a chance to show her new boss, who - fortunately - also survived, but was injured, all her ...
I really liked "Without Gemini" and "Caddo Lake" from the last ones, so I recommend them.
Maybe that was the idea, but then I didn't have enough contrast.
These inserts and the type of plot twist look both not sudden enough and too alien to the rest of the picture and narrative.
This movie was still more about a Cabin in the Woods, but very sluggish.
There is no empathy for the heroes, there is no morality. There are a lot of puke scenes.
How did it happen that before the pause in his career, having Dylan O'Brien by default made the movie/series cool, and after the pause, what's not the movie is the bottom?((
I'm already used to the fact that if they write that the film is a black comedy, it won't be funny at all, but here it's not an emotion to use at all. Besides being wildly dumb and cheap, it was also boring.…
At least I didn't go to the cinema for this slag.
The only advantage for me was playing the lead actress.
That's it=/
You forgot the plane crash scene, one plugged in immediately gave +2)
There is, of course, self-defense and shock-panic, but not everyone can survive this completely calmly, without any reflection at all.
At first, I thought she was still in a state of passion - a fall, almost drowned, a desert island, questions of survival, so the psyche pushed the analysis of what happened away. And as it turned out in the end, it was already a significant touch to her "portrait".
She wasn't to blame for the deaths of those two. Even more so in the death of her husband. And if there hadn't been a second twist in the movie, there wouldn't have been any questions about her at all. But after watching it, I paid closer attention to these points. By the way, I also had doubts about her husband, or rather, about the truthfulness of her story. And then, judging by the final shots, that story can easily be edited, turned inside out, or even completely fictional)
although I certainly expected something different from the film, there's still Sam Raimi at the helm, but it turned out the way it turned out.
in fact, what it was was a kind of satire on corporations and the whole movement, somewhere else they threw a femi agenda for the atmosphere.
The movie may be full of absurdity, but somehow it was even funny. Not wow, but it's not boring to watch either. well, at least the visual of the film is very cool and bright.
McAdams is good at her transformation as the story progresses. I haven't seen her anywhere for a long time, so it was interesting to see her in such an environment.
Well, O'Brien got used to his role right there, he pissed off pzdc, which is saying something.
Sam Raimi rented us a camp attraction, and there's no need to look for deep meanings here, everything has come to the surface)
Laughing at the absurdity
To think how thin the line is between a civilized person and someone who will do anything for survival or revenge. ✅
Freaking out and admiring with the acting duo ✅
McAdams played well, and O'Brien made a great match for her.
"I'm sorry for poking you in the eye.
I'm sorry I stabbed you."
The film is not a masterpiece, but it is quite suitable for once.
But that's exactly what treshachok is, although it could be something more.
It seems that there were attempts to make the characters deeper, and as a result, a movie about two scum.
But in the finale, for some reason, Raimi squeezed some kind of stupid morality out of it and turned everything into a feminist fantasy fantasy.
I really missed movies with such dynamics.
Linda Liddle has been working for an international corporation for many years and dreams of a long-awaited promotion that is about to happen. But the place of the former head of the company is occupied by his son Bradley. And the latter, of course, has other plans. However, seeing Linda's ability to work (and naivety), Bradley takes her on a business trip, which turns into a plane crash. Now Linda has a chance to show her new boss, who - fortunately - also survived, but was injured, all her "survivalist" skills, prove how wrong he was, and get the desired position... If, of course, they manage to get off a desert island.
I'll immediately pay attention to the elephant in the room. People in the topic claim: "Help!" is very similar to Ruben Estlund's satirical black comedy "Triangle of Sorrow" from four years ago and is a much simplified and bloodier version of it. Most likely, this is exactly the case, but, firstly, there is nothing new under the moon, secondly, I have not seen Estlund's film to make any comparisons in favor of one or the other tape, and thirdly, there is no Rachel McAdams, for whom, it seems, Raimi shot the film..
Actually, the last point is not exactly a joke. Raimi enjoyed working with the actress on the sequel to Doctor Strange, but she didn't have much time and opportunity to prove herself there, so Raimi picked up the project for the artist. McAdams has shown from the very beginning of her career that she feels comfortable in both drama and comedy, and "Help!" turned out to be the very arena where you can roam in all guises. The icing on the cake is the fact that McAdams doesn't have many "villainous" (well, of course, with all sorts of nuances) roles.
In short, if you like McAdams, then you definitely shouldn't skip this movie. She had shown talents for reincarnation before, but here the path from the scruffy and blue stocking to the stern Robinson turned out to be gradual, convincing and no less vivid than from an attractive girl to a dim-witted criminal in "Chick." However, I wouldn't write off Dylan O'Brien either. It's not for nothing that a portrait of his cinematic father with the appearance of Bruce Campbell himself hangs in his character's office ("Easter egg" -greetings to a bosom friend from Raimi). He has enough charm and charisma to be despised and empathized with at the same time because of the circumstances. He plays the corporate asshole perfectly, he makes excellent faces - he doesn't let Campbell down, and here he looks surprisingly similar to Dominic Monahan (apparently, Charlie's beach spirit from "Lost" is rushing between the islands). In general, I made a great pair of McAdams.
On the other hand, in my opinion, the reviews from "professional" critics are too enthusiastic. As for me, it turned out to be a pretty standard black comedy with the expected plot twists. The final, related to the second half of the island, was calculated as soon as it was mentioned. Yes, the screenwriters of "Freddy vs. Jason" and the remake of "Friday the 13th" flirt with genre cliches and add decaliters of blood to Reitman's "Six Days, Seven Nights" formula - well, you know: if they kiss or not, will hate turn into love or not? - but something innovative and deserving of almost 10 out of 10 points (IGN gave a nine, pfft) I didn't see it here. Well, the computer graphics that are shameful for a budget of 40 million - like a plane crash, like a wild boar - weigh on the eyes no worse than Bradley at the end of the film. It seems to me that the lion's share of the budget was spent on pina coladas and bungalow rentals on the local beach.
However, is "Help!" bad because of this? No. Despite the bad CG, the scenes are still funny and spectacularly staged. I'm glad that Raimi, after almost a 15-year hiatus, returned to his roots and shot a cheeky thrashbook, even if it wasn't mystical this time, with good acting. Trademark black humor, camera-like camerawork flying low over the ground through the jungle in the spirit of the "Sinister Dead", sometimes even too outright violence - everything that we love in the work of the hooligan Raimi. Oh, right, there's also a great soundtrack from Danny Elfman.
RATING: 3.5 mean girls out of 5
P.S. The actors were frankly pleased
I didn't expect such a turn at all, in general it's cool, nothing like that
But I watched it myself with ease)) Rachel McAdams is very cool , attracts attention , super
The references made me laugh) well, Sam Raimi's signature chips are good
The movie started with a comedy, and ended with a terrible thrash!
P.S. Rachel McAdams is a beauty!)
Down the drain. It's good that the girl got out, the antagonists have to win, it's more interesting this way.
I haven't read anything else about the film, not even the genre.
At first it was pretty cliched and dumb, but then it went much more cheerfully. I tried not to find fault with some points (like wild boar hunting), just accept and look on)) And then it became more interesting and even deeper - the Island's "help" in the spiritual and moral growth of the characters, the expectation that the absence of society would help both to throw off the "imposed", hear themselves, embark on a more constructive / harmonious path, and so on. As I watched, I remembered the movie Gone with Madonna and twelve other films with a similar plot.
And so you watched the initial outright banality, rejoiced at the transition to a normal narrative, and relaxed as you watched the characters transform... and then there were these swirls, followed by THIS SWIRL!
As a result, I realized that I would like or dislike the film, depending on my mood. If you are not ready to pick up a wave that can take you anywhere, including from a light crack to a full-fledged crack, then you should not even start.
I was lucky, the waves coincided, and I was able to chat, laugh, make fun, get intrigued, philosophize, etc. That's why I liked the movie, because it's very multifaceted.
But I'm sure if I had started watching in a different mood, my impressions would have been why they piled the first, second, third, compote and all in one plate.
And so, of course, I won't call it a masterpiece, but for once it went cheerfully, albeit thrashingly. As they say, a fairy tale is a lie, but there is a hint in it)
Both were close to success, but both failed the test.
The main characters celebrate the wedding, the heroine is given a bloody ring and sits down to eat at a table covered with the remains of the previous bride and the owner of the villa?
I thought the same thing during the office period. And on the island, at similar moments, she screamed: "No, not romcom! Don't reduce everything to banality! Leave them the "spiritual" growth in this kind of interaction."
They didn't get into a romcom) However, spiritual growth did not happen either)))
I liked the heroine's game, but the rest.... Survival is not realistic, and her mental disability could not be properly revealed either.
• The scene where Donovan passes off Linda's report as his own at a meeting is a prime example of how men appropriate women's achievements for themselves.
• The old director of the company appreciated Linda and wanted to promote her - in the patriarchy, to be considered a good woman, it was enough for a woman to perform her basic duties well (we omit the topic of rights). But here comes a new boss, a neo-patriarch, and it's not enough that she's a great employee, she looks inappropriate and generally eats tuna (fictional standards)!
• Donovan gets promoted, but not for a good job, but because he's a guy who studied with his boss and plays golf with him. Another reminder that in a neo-patriarchy, no matter how hard a woman tries, her merits will always be insufficient for men. And Linda understands this on the plane! In the scene where she notices her colleagues laughing at her, she chooses to delete what she just worked on for them.
• Bradley constantly refers to Linda's position as "just a manager," and she's a "strategic planning manager"-literally what every woman does in her home! He leads the whole life and actually plans the whole life of the family. But this work is not appreciated or noticed by men, it is taken for granted, its importance is belittled.
• On the plane, we see that "whatever happens" and the men are ready to kill each other. That is, in a modern society of neo-patriarchy, a man is not a friend to a woman, but a man is not a friend to a man either - even between "their own" there is no help and mutual support. It's every man for himself.
• The island is an environment free of social norms and rules. In such an environment, a man is helpless because his power and dominance are not real, but only a social construct.
• There are very noticeable changes in the appearance of both main characters! Linda literally blossomed on the island! But Bradley began to look very bad. A woman who does not live in a man's world becomes happier, healthier, more beautiful. It is very difficult for a man to live without this male system, because he is faced with a reality that he is not ready for. But, over time, Bradley comes to his senses, because Linda teaches him to live in a new way.
• Without Linda, Bradley could not build his "home" on the island. Well, this is a cool reference to the phrase "a real man should raise a son, plant a tree, build a house." In fact, we are shown that it is impossible to become a real man without a woman.
• Of course Linda wants to stay on the island! She dreads how she will return to the old system, and does everything possible to stay here, free. She suggests that Bradley stay together on the island forever - women would really like to live with men in a world where everyone will be fine. But she doesn't understand that Bradley (the representative of all men) is not ready for such drastic changes. He liked the old world and he wants to go back there. Perhaps this is one of the reasons why Linda did not teach Bradley how to make special knots for the raft - so as not to return to the old ways.
• There's also a reference to the phrase "men built civilization for women." But in the film we are shown that women do not need such a civilization. A woman is much better off on a desert island than in such a civilization.
• Bradley's fiancee, Zuri, is an excellent example of women who adapt to patriarchal principles as much as possible and support this system. As long as such women exist, there will be no progress in society. Linda gets rid of her.
• Linda's story about her dead husband is a story about how a woman stops tolerating and playing the role of a rescuer, and a man destroys himself. Naturally, Bradley blames Linda for her husband's death, because society constantly blames a woman for men's disgusting actions: raped - guilty, found a lover - guilty, killed - guilty, died blue - guilty.
• In the scene at the mansion, we see Bradley pretending to be remorseful and making promises of a wonderful future on the island, and then using Linda's weakened vigilance and attacking her. You can't blindly believe men's promises of a change in the current paradigm of society - they'll cheat just to calm women's vigilance. You can't wrest your freedom without a fight.
Linda wins and returns to the ordinary world. But now she's a different person - she no longer plays by the rules of society, she's a survivor (and, automatically, rich)! And she tells us, "don't wait for help, save yourself!" It makes no sense to expect help from men in making changes, you need to act on your own, you need to take away your freedom - that, it seems to me, is the meaning of this work.