Perry Kate Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
Kailansorac Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.
Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
Hattie I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.
Big Wheel This is in response to a previous reviewer, David Frames, who called this movie "misogynistic" and implied Oliver Reed's character was a letch. That is a totally incorrect interpretation of the film. Anytime I hear the word "misogynist", I know I'm dealing with some pathetic, man-hating, feminist, left-wing nut. This reviewer didn't need to get their panties in a knot. Just because Oliver Reed's character wants to spend time with a beautiful, naked woman does not mean he hates women. It's called being heterosexual and loving the female form. It seems that some people nowadays are such cowardly little lickspittles that they have capitulated to the man-hating feminist definition of "political correctness" to the point that they are afraid to enjoy the female body anymore for fear that somebody might accuse them of being sexist.Merely because a man enjoys frolicking nude with a beautiful woman does NOT make him a misogynist; it makes him a normal red-blooded male. So don't let the review of David Frames, who is probably a homosexual, turn you off from this film. I saw it when I was 15 and I loved it. Amanda Donahoe's nudity was in line with the story; they were on a warm, deserted island---why would they need to wear clothes? Naturism is as natural as a sunset, there is nothing wrong with appreciating the female body, and don't let these hateful feminists on the political left make you feel guilty about it. This movie is harmless. It shows how a man hopes to enjoy the simple fantasy of a care-free, idyllic life romping in the sun, and how the reality of what he gets doesn't live up to his expectations. This is a meditation on life and love; in the end we never really get what we had hoped for, and the sizzle is always better than the steak. Oliver Reed had hoped for an island paradise, and he finds that the problems of life cannot be avoided by merely changing locations. Sit back, relax, and enjoy the film for what it is.
moonspinner55 Island travelogue and would-be 'uninhibited' male-female relations get sprinkled with psychosexual melodrama here, as only filmmaker Nicolas Roeg could present it. An older Londoner (Oliver Reed) s for a female companion to spend a year with him on a deserted island; Amanda Donohoe answers--she's the kind of gal who whips off all her clothes the minute the boat docks. Based on Lucy Irvine's book, one gets the sense this plot could be more a fantasy for women than for men--after all, the headstrong lady seems to call most of the shots, while Reed does the deep contemplating (with most of his clothes on!). The initial set up of the story is fun, but once the couple gets to the island, the script becomes non-existent. Director Nicolas Roeg isn't interested in lush, romantic tiptoeing through the flora and fauna (and he probably didn't see "The Blue Lagoon" anyway), yet one cannot help but imagining these two as older Blue Lagooners for a more cynical age, caught up in a messy combination between that scenario and the more political "Swept Away". Alas, this "Castaway" seems made up of leftover parts. *1/2 from ****
elcutach This is based on a true story of a couple who were left on one of the Great Barrier Reef Islands east of Australia. I don't think this was filmed on location for the whole story, such as itis, revolves around the couple's efforts to survive in an unfriendly environment. There is good reason that natives do not live there. If you want to see half-naked people in tropical environments then watch the Survivor TV series. There is good reason for there not being a Survivor-Greenland or Antarctica. As to the north woods, the flies and mosquitoes would eat up the contestants, clothed or not along with having to endure long cold winters. The only reason to watch this is to study Amanda Donohoe's epidermis. But even that gets old after a while. Edit out Reed and the scenes set elsewhere and you might have a half hour stroke film. Otherwise forget it. The premise is because the couple cannot forage enough sustenance, she and Reed are gradually are gradually starving to death. In fact, neither appear to have lost any weight so the director keeps flashing a shot of the upper torso of some emaciated woman to make the point. But it is always the same shot. Though AD is nude most of the time , there is never any full frontal so this is rated B for boring and R for ridiculous.
Moondrop_C Two people who barely know each other, spend a year on an island together. They suffer malnutrition, stormy weather, and just plain I'm-sick-of-you-itis. I managed to catch this movie a while back on cable. I love watching movies from England, Australia or New Zealand because they're so different from what I'm used to. This movie didn't disappoint there. There was only one thing missing from this movie to make it totally realistic. Amanda Donohoe played a young, presumably fertile woman on an island for 12 months and never so much as had PMS, if you catch my drift. Forgive me, but as a woman, this is something I think of *whenever* I think about being stranded *anywhere* for months at a time. All in all, though, a very entertaining movie.
