Send Help ENDING SUCKED
I just watched Send Help with Rachel McAdams and Dylan O'Brien, and I gotta say MAN the ending friggin sucked.
everything was going well up until the last 10 minutes of the movie. I actually found Linda Liddle's character quite admirable on the island up until the point where Bradley tries to poison her and the aftermath that ensues. she is resourceful and very quickly shows him his place; he needs her and can't survive without her. but also she needs him in her own little way to stay sane, otherwise she's just talking to herself all alone on some island. i appreciated the fact that the movie showed a woman who very clearly was capable and could get shit done, because SHE is the reason they survived on that island. without her, Bradley would have 100% died. HOWEVER:
what i don't like is the psychological torture that she inflicts on him later as retaliation, with the neurotoxin and threatening to neuter Bradley. that "prank" with the rat was downright insane, and that's when I started realizing something is really REALLY off with her (probably could've noticed sooner tbh). and then she kills Bradley's fiancé and the boat tour guide because she wants to spend more time alone with him??? you're telling me this woman, who can survive stranded alone on an island, has an unquenchable thirst for cold-blooded murder? and that this woman in question killed innocent people all for a MAN's ATTENTION? it's just fucking pathetic. CAN WE STOP PUSHING THIS FUCK ASS NARRATIVE. i hate this weird narrative being pushed that you can't be a woman/person in power unless you do terrible things. in fact by the end of the movie we've established very clearly that Bradley is a saint compared to Linda.
what a terrible way to finish this film. should've just had them both die, that would've been a much more satisfying ending. i would've really liked for him to have killed her before slowly succumbing to his wounds... but maybe that is just me. overall very disappointing ending, this movie had some serious potential.