GamerTab That was an excellent one.

Grimossfer Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

Jemima It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

evening1 This silly movie starts out well but deteriorates fast.In an age of Natalee Holloway, and with past films like the excellent French-Dutch "Vanished," the disappearance of someone in an exotic locale seems plausible and offers intriguing dramatic possibilities.A.J. Cook tries her best but is saddled with a ridiculous plot full of red herrings and dead-ends. I was so bored by the end of this stinker I no longer cared who had Jake or why.I just wanted the main players to die so the movie would be over and my 10-year-old could go to bed. He claimed he wanted to stay up to see how this detritus turned out and then ranked it an 8 -- probably just to spite me!

barrymalvina I did not like this film. I enjoyed it on the basis of a nonsense fiction (a bit like I enjoyed reading The Da Vinci Code for entertainment only), but there are certain implications in it to which I strongly object.To begin, there cannot exist a Spanish speaking Caribbean island, apparently so small yet having solidly built streets and alleys in its main town and villages. Apparently it was filmed in Puerto Rico, say no more.I cannot abide US Americans who scream and shout as if their voice is their authority. I well remember my father in the UK saying that after meeting US soldiers during WW2 he did not like them because they have "the gift of the gab".It is strongly suggested that voodoo, witchcraft and religious cultism are highly prevalent only in the Caribbean, and that ordinary people are highly susceptible to their influence.Finally, it appears that the film was made primarily to appeal to those who would contend that shouting and voodoo are forces to believe in, and use for good or bad. I trust others would be put off by this in this film, as I was.Its one redeeming feature, I thought, was its story line, implying corruption at high levels, and motivated by long-standing family ties in a local community, and long-standing aspects of revenge towards badly-behaved American tourists. I will give the film two stars for this.

sol1218 (Some Spoilers) Mind twisting horror movie involving this happy go lucky American couple the Carey's-Jake & Hope-who end up getting carried away by members of this VooDoo Cult on the Island of Saint Carlos where they went to spend their vacation.It all started when Jake excused himself while he was having a drink with Hope in an island outdoor café to go to the john and then just disappeared into thin air. Hope trying to find what happened to her lost husband runs into all kinds of obstacles in not knowing the native language on the island Spanish and having to rely on the few local people who can speak English. It's Saint Carlos police chief Raddimas who in fact speaks perfect English without even the slightest hint of a Spanish accent who gets on the case of the missing Jake telling Hope to stay out of his business if she knows whats good for her!It becomes very obvious that Hope is not welcomed on the island in that she's ruffling some feathers in uncovering who really runs the place VooDoo chieftain Bulmaro who's also it's major religious leader. It's Bulmaro who used his powers of VooDoo as well as violence, to those who refuse to go along with him, to establish an island VooDoo Cult that he rules with an iron fist! With no one willing, or too scared, to help her Hope turns to the island's only English speaking taxi driver Rodrigo by paying him exorbitant fees, over $300.00, to help her find her husband Jake who, in having no other place to go, has to be somewhere on the island.Things start to really get out of hand when FBI Agent John Grayson shows up, pretending to be a fellow tourist, and in no time at all ends up getting shot and critically wounded by one of Bulmaro's hit-men. That was moments after Agent Grayson warned Hope not to leave her hotel room if she want's to stay alive. Just the day before Saint Carlos private eye Gregorio in trying to contact Hope-his client-about her husbands whereabouts was run down and killed in a hit-and-run just seconds after he called Hope on her cellphone! The movie gets even more weirder when Hope is contacted by the mysterious Lusia who's been following her and Jake since they both left Florida. Lusia hits Hope right square between the eyes about Jake's secret life, before they were married, with this bombshell of a revelation that comes straight out of the blue! ***SPOILERS**** It turns out that Lusie is Jake's illegitimate daughter who's mom was cult leader Bulmaro's lover which explains the reason that Jake, as it turned out, was kidnapped by Bulmaro's cult followers! That was in order to have him pay for his illicit affair with Bulmaro's girlfriend some 20 years ago! With all these surprises in the movie up to that point the biggest one by far is still yet to come! In just what exactly is going on between Saint Carlos Police Chief Raddimus and VooDoo Cult leader Bulmaro? And whey is Raddius so protective of him despite Bulmaro's reign of terror, that includes murder and kidnapping, on the island of Saint Carlos!

caa821 A half century ago, Cyril Parkinson wrote an article for "The Economist," where he first espoused "Parkinson's Law:" "Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion." This is usually stated in a slightly-abbreviated fashion, "work expands to fill the time available." Even today, with the advent of computers, there is a corollary, "data expands to fill the space available for storage."With the expansion of cable and satellite television, and the tremendous increase in the number of channels offered, with stations such as "Lifetime" and the plethora of others, there is a new corollary we can add to Mr. Parkinson's dictum: "Mediocre made-for-TV movies expand in number to fill the many hours (and stations) available for their airings."A lot of cable time is filled with re-runs of movies/sitcoms/dramas previously produced, some gossip and reality shows, and late-hour paid programming/infomercials. However, there is always a need for more films to fill the time/spaces available.In our present society, that is the only possibly reason for the production and airing of this flick. I'm not certain the description as "mediocre" isn't an insult to those programs/productions truly warranting this description. This one seems somewhat lower, in all aspects: story; performances; and even the climax and explanation for all the nonsense one had to sit through for most of the two hours. This "climax" was woefully weak, even considering the lower standards of this genre.I caught it on a day when I was fighting a bronchial malady, and having to make certain I got rid of it before an important trip coming soon. I left the program on since I was slightly sedated, but also with that fascination this type of show delivers: sort of drawing you in with curiosity as to whether it just MIGHT GET BETTER. The latter was not the case here. Gove it 2* versus 1, since the lead actress was attractive to view, and because, according to the location info, they at least filmed it in Puerto Rico instead of some back lot or Hispanic neighborhood in Canada.