Black Rock

2012 "Not every island is a paradise."
4.8| 1h19m| R| en
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Three childhood friends set aside their personal issues and reunite for a girls’ weekend on a remote island off the coast of Maine. One wrong move turns their weekend getaway into a deadly fight for survival.

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Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible
Robert Joyner The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one
Kodie Bird True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.
Tyreece Hulme One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.
pigdogg I liked this film. Decent production quality and acting for the budget level. Lake Bell is a natural beauty and a joy to behold every time she is on the screen. The tension is well built and the story progresses at an engaging pace. The action and violence is handled reasonable well if perhaps not entirely expertly. Overall a well done and entertaining effort. *** SPOILERS *** Elements of the plot suggest a distorted moral sensibility or perhaps a screen writer with psychological issues : One of the three female characters is physically engaging one of the men while the group drinks around the camp fire. Touching him flirting with him, overtly verbally expressing her attraction for him while she caresses him in front of the group. This is a man she only met hours earlier. He is reluctant and repeatedly disengages her physical advances. It appears he would prefer to speak to a different woman sitting in front of the fire. The flirtatious woman seems to reach a point of frustration since her advances are not reciprocated so she goes to the woods for a bathroom break shall we say and she lures the man she is interested in to come join her. He does. She kisses him passionately and so he asks if she wants to "have fun". In the context of the scene the invitation is for sex. She agrees. They are lying on the ground, both breathing hard and apparently sex hormones now raging at high levels in both, removing clothing. Suddenly she decides she no longer wants to have sex and she murders the man by crashing a sharp rock into the side of his skull.Now as a viewer it is clear that this woman is emotionally unstable and she has just gone insane and killed a man she doesn't even know. A man she enticed to have sex in the woods. She spuriously and with little warning changed her mind about having sex and kills this poor guy.I believe that the audience is supposed to side with the woman because there was a point in time where she appeared to change her mind. Any judge or prosecutor viewing the exact same footage would clearly convict her of entrapment / murder but the viewer I believe is supposed to see it as an attempted rape.In a sense this one scene, given that it is the pivotal scene of the film, is disastrously misguided. The screen writer should have made it a clear case of attempted rape so that the viewer would side with the woman as a potential victim rather than an obvious criminal psychotic. The women then proceed to murder the other two men and escape to freedom by stealing the dead men's boat. The film was quite good. I enjoyed watching it, but the women in the story were not the valiant women defending themselves against a trio of evil men they were unstable violent criminals plain and simple. I suspect the woman who wrote the screen play, Katie Aselton, sees it differently. This is a sad comment on how women view the world they live in and their place in it, but such is the state of humanity.
bowmanblue Why is Kate Bosworth in this film? Does the writer have embarrassing pictures of her that he threatened to make public? I know she isn't the biggest of Hollywood starlets, but she's about a million times better than the dross you have here.Three women who absolutely despise each other go on another camping trip to a secluded island. In a rare moment when they are screaming abuse at each other, they meet three soldiers who are there for the hunting. One woman gets drunk and seduces a soldier, only to change her mind half way through the 'act.' He gets cross, so she kills him, meaning the remaining two soldiers decide to hunt down and murder the remaining three girls.So, can three women survive and overpower two well-trained soldiers with guns? I'll give you a clue: this is a movie. Take a guess.Whereas the soldiers have their military training to fall back on, the women just sit in bushes before trying to sneak about the place while shouting loudly. Then, when they get in the water, they decide just to splash a lot rather than swim.I can't think of many films like this. There are only six cast-members and you might think that what the producers save on cast wages they could put towards a decent story or effects. However, this has neither. It comes across as something a poor film student would make. The 'fight scenes' look like that sketch in Monty Python where six old ladies mud wrestle. Seriously, it's that bad.If you want hunting in the jungle, there's a little-known film called 'Predator' starring one Arnold Schwarzenegger. Check it out if you haven't seen it. If you have, just watch it again - it's in a different universe of film-making to this.Kate, why?
gavin6942 Three childhood friends set aside their personal issues and reunite for a girls' weekend on a remote island off the coast of Maine. One wrong move turns their weekend getaway into a deadly fight for survival.So, this film was directed by Katie Aselton ("The League"), based on a screenplay by her husband Mark Duplass (also "The League"), and also stars Aselton. This may not be the duo you would expect to make a thriller, but they work together in the genre exceptionally well.Reviews have been mixed to negative, with people saying the women make poor choices in the film (as if horror characters do not usually make poor choices). The film is better than given credit for, with a decent amount of tension and some incredible dialogue. Whether scripted or ad libbed, the conversations come off as far more natural than the average film -- these could really be three friends on a trip.
charmed_p3-705-447018 I really enjoyed this movie! I don't see why it has such bad reviews! I think the plot is really great because it's believable! First off, the whole 'rape' scene happens all the time. A woman leads a man on thinking she wants what he wants and changes her mind about it before it goes too far. Man doesn't take no for an answer. Secondly, just because the men are vets doesn't mean the writers of this movie are anti-veterans. There are A LOT of veterans that have PTSD and other terrible things that are wrong with them after serving. Especially these men who have served 2 tours in Iraq and one in Afghanistan. Personally, I believe two of the men may have underlying problems before their traumatic experiences. The guy who tried to rape Abbey and the other white guy. (Sorry I can't remember any of the mens names)Either way, I read a lot of reviews talking about how it's anti-vet and I just don't see it that way. I think the story is believable and there were boobs. Nice boobs. #worth