Kyree Turner

At the beginning of this film there is a trigger warning, yet it doesn't prepare for the psychological rollercoaster this film puts you through. That is also contingent on your background and the things you have been through. In my opinion, this film should have been rated NC-17 because I don't think kids under 17 should be admitted to watch the film. Onto the film itself. It does a decent job at setting up the final act with intentional Easter eggs as to what was happening the entire time. The pacing, again, in my opinion, was spot on for this film and crescendos quite nicely. The acting was great and the humor was appropriately placed towards the beginning of the film, but once things started to get serious, some of the humor was unwarranted. ****SPOILERS BELOW**** One of the major plot holes in the film involves the "awakening", so to speak, involving a particular type of venom that happens to exist in the same place as the "forget" drug. That was way too much a coincidence, UNLESS they were intentionally put there by some of the workers who were aware of the island and the goings on there and didn't want to do anything about it directly. Also, there is one character in the film who had no point to existing in the film but to be shamed at the end for doing "nothing". As the saying goes, people that stand by and do nothing are equally as guilty, but I don't think that applies in this situation when he keeps getting his memory erased. His death was unjustified and he definitely should have been redeemed, but the creative choice to kill the youngest male struggling with his own morality before he decided, was a waste. Finally, the ending. I understand the need to get even, but I think the ending went too far the other direction. The trauma that one goes through isn't something that should be wished on anyone else, yet, that's exactly what happens. The idea of getting even is very human but in the end, some things shouldn't be celebrated or encouraged and the ending makes it clear we should be rooting for someone, but I just couldn't do it, not after knowing that, what they went through, they plan on doing to someone else. In the end, it was a much better film than I thought it would be, but I will say that there are some people who didn't deserve to die, while some others should have faced the consequences of their actions much more publicly/legally, instead of getting the luxury of dying.