Survival Island
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Movie Reviews of Survival Island
Movie Review: A typical Billy Zane movie
Summary: 3 Stars
I've seen Billy Zane in a few movies and they are all rather strange. This movie was no exception. Great scenery if you like surf and sand. Kelly Brook plays a rather shallow character. She is very attractive and I certainly would have liked to have seen a lot more of her. The bits where she did show her stuff were quite pleasant. I guess being married to Billy Zane meant that he was rather "protective" in not showing her off a little more. A little disappointing. Billy played his usual interesting part and probably "made" this movie.
The interaction of the three survivors of the boat fire/explosion was interesting.
I rather enjoyed the movie and would recommend it for the scenery alone if you're watching in a cold northern winter.
Movie Review: EYE CANDY
Summary: 3 Stars
Kelly Brook is an Awesome looking British Model. The story is entertaining..at least more so than the standard SKin-A-MAX type shows....Some nudity...some blod and violence...a ship wrecked threesome.Movie Review: Great potential but falls short
Summary: 2 Stars
Caught this one night on cable. I guess I should start with, I am a fan of Billy Zane. I think he is a good intense actor and he does not disappoint in this movie. As far as Kelly Brook and Juan Pablo di Pace go, well, this is where the weakness in the movie starts.
The movie is about a wealthy couple, Jack and Jennifer, who are stranded on a deserted island with Manuel their boatman. The story in the beginning is simply about survival on a deserted island. But it then quickly becomes about the struggle between Jack and Manuel with Jack's wife Jennifer being the mediator and eventual prize.
The strong parts of the movie are:
Billy Zane - He plays a good part of a jealous and suspicious husband trying to take charge of a situation in which he has no control.
The scenery: truly beautiful with some great shots underwater.
The Story: Well the first half anyway's.
The bad:
Jennifer and Manuel: You are supposed to like them, connect and root for them but it is impossible. Instead of being the victims they come off as the villains in the movie. This really messing things up.
The second have the movie: This is where they start to make Jack the villain and the other two the victims. It just does not work. Yes Jack is jealous and paranoid but for good reason. His wife is sleeping around. She has turned on him. How can you root for two people who don't care about the third, who with everything they do they hurt him. The movie wants you to root for them but I rooted for Jack the entire movie.
Like I said it had it's good parts but it was to infuriating to watch Jack get treated like dirt and then get blamed for getting mad for me to truly enjoy the movie.
Movie Review: Kelly Brook, get's the two stars for her obvious "TALENTS"
Summary: 2 Stars
Well, I read somewhere in a review that this movie truly was meant for women. Myself, looking at Kelly Brook, I can't see how that remark is justified. In many ways it might be true since the concept and story is almost something you find in the typical cheap and dirty romance novels.
How is Kelly Brook's character, the heroine? Granted she plays the character of a beautiful slightly-dimwitted wife of a rich insecure jerk, stranded in a deserted island with an attractive Latin jack-of-all-trades. Typical and expected, the wife has an illicit affair with "Manuel" the Latin hard-throve. What bothers me really, is that the husband is made to be the villain, when his insecurities and suspicions where in fact correct and justified. He may have initially being a jerk, she married him anyway, perhaps for his ability to provide? Then again, maybe I am looking too much into this one than what it deserves.
To be really honest, I was channel browsing and had a sudden glimpse of Kelly Brook, so I put the remote control down. I only missed about 10 minutes of the whole movie. The dialog was horrendous and unnatural, in my opinion. Kelly was made to be really dumb and overly demure, and the couple doing the dishonorable act was made to be the victim and heroine, or survivor.
The concept and acting was shallow, vain, and superficial. The scenes seemed inconsistent. For example: a Tribal ritual is introduced at the end without anything ever leading to it. This flick reminded me somehow of those old 1970s B movies of women in jail, etc. Where the acting was not of high priority. Again, two stars for Kelly's obvious "Talents" if you know what I'm referring to.
Movie Review: Worth seeing only for Kelly Brook
Summary: 2 Stars
Caught this on cable. It's a ridiculous plot with annoying characters and lengthy dialogue scenes that go on forever (which I fast-forwarded through), but there's some nice underwater scenery (no, seriously).
The only thing that makes this movie completely worth watching on cable, renting, or, at seven bucks, maybe even buying is Kelly Brook, who spends pretty much the entire movie looking AMAZING in a white bikini (very impressive assets). She's also topless quite often, although, until the second half of the film, the shots are fairly quick.
There's also a couple shots of her bare butt, but no frontal nudity. (Big continuity error when she goes skinny-dipping, but comes out of the ocean clearly wearing her bottoms.)
There's also a couple sex scenes; the first one early in the film with Billy Zane features Brook with her hands bound by a leather belt. It's all very hot, but she keeps her arms in the air, well above her head, and it just looked artificial and silly, like Sharon Stone's sex scenes in Basic Instinct. (Not that I'm complaining...)
But I had trouble dealing with how bald Billy Zane was. I'm proud for him that he's willing to not go the Sean Connery route and cover it up with a rug, but it was still unsettling. Oh, and I've always liked Zane, but his performance was awkward; maybe because his character's paranoia about his wife's fidelity (before she actually committed adultery) was absurd.