SEND HELP
Mean girl meets annoying finance bro on Survivor.
Send Help is a funny, almost horrific thriller comedy, with some brilliant acting from the two iconic stars we loved watching as teenagers, Rachel McAdams as Regina George, the number one mean girl, which she executed brilliantly by the way. We see her channel that inner bully in a few scenes in this movie.
Dealing with a mean, deplorable boss who is fawned over by his other deplorable male associates, she suffers under the hands of these guys in the office, using her as a workhorse and not promoting her. We see the roles reversed when they are involved in a plane crash, and they end up being the only two survivors, stuck on an island.
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Luckily, Linda (Rachel) had auditioned to be a Survivor contestant; she was well-versed in all survival tactics. Prissy boy, on the other hand, could not make a shiv from sticks to save his life. We see some really brilliant acting from Dylan O’Brien when Linda leaves him alone for a few days because he was mean to her.
As he continued to see how alone he was, and how much worse the weather and his condition was getting, there’s a scene where we see a magnificent show of facial expression montage, from regret, to resolve, to fear, to more resolve, then desperation, ugh. It was really some wonderful acting - flowers for the handsome man.
As usual, I enjoy seeing the woman win, even if she became the pariah at some point. lol. There should have been more scenes where she would have paid back the other finance bros; they all died too soon, if you ask me.
I liked the ending. I did. They made her crazy. He deserved all he got. He deserved all he got because he tried to shortchange her at every damn turn. Even when she was helping. Granted, she did some more awful things out of necessity ( like kill his fiancee), but I don’t blame her. Muhahaha. Bite me.
