Send Help follows Linda, a dorky overlooked office worker who gets passed over for a promotion she was promised, then finds herself stranded on a deserted island with the exact man who screwed her over. What follows is part survival thriller, part dark comedy, part psychological horror and part twisted almost-romance. It’s pretty much unclassifiable and that is exactly why it work because by the end of the movie I had to ask myself

What did I just watch

Rachel McAdams did some heavy lifting with her hilarious transformation from bumbling office worker to vicious survivalist. Her portray of Linda is so committed and physical that you forget you are watching the same person by the end.

The plane crash scene alone had me completely locked in. Absolutely unhinged. The way this film shoots chaos with a wink rather than taking itself too seriously is what separates it from every other survival thriller I’ve seen, this must have been what shotgun wedding with Jennifer Lopez and Josh Duhamel was trying to achieve.

But I have to give credit to Dylan O’Brien also because his reactions to her antics created such great chemistry between them that I almost wished for a love story at one point. The almost romance between Linda and Bradley is one of the most delicious teases in recent memory because just when you think the movie is going soft it reminds you exactly who Linda is. He was faking the whole thing to poison her and escape. This movie has absolutely no business being this entertaining.

Is it dumb at times? Absolutely. But it is dumb on purpose and shot with enough self awareness to make all of it land and the ending was a nice cherry on top.

9.1/10. Unhinged, unpredictable and McAdams is a revelation.