Strictly Confidential

This has to be one of the most glacially paced movies I have seen in a long time. Far too much time is spent showing us the pain and mourning that a group of "friends" is going through a full year after one of them is lost to a mysterious suicide. Their pain is so magnified as to seem only a few days fresh, but a full year later? That stretches credibility pretty far.

Unfortunately, the ending feels so cheap, contrived, and sudden that the earlier slow pace now seems to have been stretched out only to fill the length required to qualify as a movie instead of a TV episode.

Georgia Lock seems like she might be a decent movie actress, but unfortunately, her character in this movie is so shallow and one-dimensional that it's impossible to tell. Hopefully she'll get a chance to show better what she's capable of doing with a higher-quality script.

A group of friends fly to an island so they can commemorate the tragic death by suicide of a close friend a year before. Many truths come out during their time there.

I didn't want to just jump on the bandwagon of poor reviews so I watched it right through so I could give a fair review.

The story itself could have been ok but was overly webbed and drawn out. The dialogue/script was childish, but that matched the whole thing, childish. I felt like I was watching a very early episode of Mean Girls, or 90210.

The acting was beyond poor. There was the very odd moment when you could tell an actor was reacting to an emotion rather than direction, but only a handful in the whole film. It distinctly lacked acting ability throughout the film, but the behaviour of the cast suggested that they though they were acting really well. Delusion reigned.

The direction was almost bizarre. We'd see people look a certain way and there was no context for the look. The camera panned to look at a wall, or someone sitting down, and then back to the scene but without ever letting us know why it had panned away. People's actions, especially in group scenes just weren't normal and I think sometimes the actors struggled to know or remember what they were supposed to do. There were many horrified looks, or agonised looks that I think were meant to be sympathetic, that did not correlate at all with the plot or the scene.

The cinematography was below amateur grade. Half the time it was as if there was a hazy filter over the lens and there were many angles and shots that simply didn't make sense. Also the score was louder than the dialogue and continuous, even if the music lent nothing to the scene. It felt like it was there just for the heck of it. It was highly irritating right to the very end. The constant closeups of faces that were struggling to portray what they wanted to was painful.

The overall thrust of the film was a lot of titillation and see through clothes, a sex fest where everyone was having everyone else, and some of the most cringe worthy lesbian kissing scenes I've honestly ever seen. Liz Hurley wins the gold award for most awful kissing in the movies. And the cringeworthy moment when she pulls her panties back up after being caught kissing Natasha. It was like a pair of 16 year olds being caught in the playground. I actually gagged.

Makeup, although I expected a lot worse, overall was actually reasonable, apart from Hurley's. She honestly reminded me of some 80's porn star with her makeup, it did nothing whatsoever to put her in a good light.

The very final scene was utterly bizarre. After Mia has boarded the jet Rebecca has a final truth to admit to. I can't even talk about it really: it's not a great plot twist, it's just bizarre and unnecessary. I hate to say this but after seeing Damian's other, short film, The Boy on the Beach, I truly worry about the relationship between him and his mother.

I gave it a 2 but I think 1 was simply out of pity.

Putting aside my own feelings about Elizabeth Hurley (lustfully positive!) and the morally questionable decision to choose your son to direct you in a film best described as mindless titllation material, this effort is about as amateurish and empty as you would expect. Deeply annoying characters across the board, secondary school levels of direction and acting, overabundance of meaningless facial closeups and utterly cringe dialog all combine to result in nothing other than a nepotismic vanity project.

Even the location smacks of nothing short of "look at how the idle rich live" - be jealous of your sad life.

And no, even the eternally lovely Elizabeth Hurley cannot redeem this piece of nonsense.

3*, my lowest rating given on imdb. It hurt me to not give it 4* but we didn't even seen enough of the forever vixen Elizabeth Hurley. Because not enough skin.

If you are one of those who live for IG/TokTik idiocy and all of its manufactured lies and/or you are the kind of person who wears high heels (which I love on a woman in the right contexts) while traipsing around clifftops, beaches and grasslands, this movie will be a joy for you.

Normal folks grounded in actual reality need not view. Especially since Miz Hurley doesn't reveal any of her particularly luscious assets on camera.

Damian: Go find another job. STAT.

Nothing about this film works.

The actors have to play roles that are simply ridiculous. Of course, the idea of shooting an erotic thriller in the Caribbean sounds good. The younger actors do their best, but can't save the flic. But not like this. Hurley, who always looks good, is just badly staged. The "erotic" scenes are nothing but embarrassing. But the worst thing is the script. Boring. And boring again. The payoff at the end, my goodness, where did that come from? This ist the third or forth film for Liz Hurley set on the same island with the same producers. (the others are unfunny Christmas movies) She should move on. Please...

This film is plain weird! Strange and totally nonsensical

I have seen it written that its in "so bad it's good" genre but for me it is squarely in the 'so bad its just bad category'. Damian appears to have wanted to titillate. It's just that he is awful at it. There's no chemistry between any of the stilted actors - certainly not enough for scandalous activities that were not that scandalous just plain sad...... The performances from the whole cast are terrible, but there's something beyond terrible about Georgia Lock's consistently bewildered expression and psycho histrionics. Harks me right back to Pearl White's tragic 1914 'Perils of Pauline'.

I so wish I had not watched this film........ Enough to further reduce someone's faith in contemporary film.