Send Help movie review: Rachel McAdams elevates Sam Raimi’s twisty survival thriller

That compensation, of joining Bradley and others on a trip to Hong Kong for a merger, upturns the power dynamics of this one-way relationship. On way, somewhere in the waters off Thailand, Bradley’s chartered plane crashes. After his buddies, who have spent the flight mocking Linda in plain sight — particularly an audition video she had made for TV show Survivor — kill each other in a desperate scramble to save themselves, Linda wakes up to find herself on a desolate beach.

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The only other survivor of the plane is Bradley — of course. And the tables are turned — of course. For a while you do roll your eyes at this “of course” trajectory of the film where Linda’s superior skills of living in the wild trump Bradley’s silver-spooned existence at every turn. Linda can fashion a shelter, make fire, collect clean water, catch food from fish to snails, mash herbs for a lotion of sorts, devise a hamper as well as a grass hat and a wicker backpack and a wind chime of shells, and even hunt a boar in a scene that is pure guttural glory.

Reluctantly, Bradley must admit he is beat.

But how deep goes Linda’s triumph? You have to watch this to figure that out.

McAdams gets a film that lets all aspects of her shine, without no distractions of any sort; all women exasperated with playing nice and “looking nice” to bosses get their day in the sun (and sand); and all men are shown how defenceless they are not wearing the pants (literally in one scene).

Certainly, no man is an island. Women, though? Try asking.

Send Help movie cast: Rachel McAdams, Dylan O’Brien
Send Help movie director: Sam Raimi
Send Help movie rating: 3 stars