Pânico no Caribe

I gave it a five because it was not all that bad. It had beauties galore for the men and eye candy for the women. . Beautiful beaches and lush tropics for all of us. I read where one reader said they watched for Erica Durance in a bikini. She was but not for long. Kept putting that damn shirt top back on. The plot was fair,acting well done. Not a bad way to waste a couple hours on a rainy Sunday afternoon. That's what it's doing here. thirty-nine degrees and raining. Still the movie moves along well, and finally we find out what has been a secret all along. Oh, well watch it to find out. I enjoyed it and will watch again.

The movie opens with a scene depicting a man landing on an uninhabited island ,paying the boatman who dropped him off there and proceeding to a small ,delapited shack where he pins up the photographs of 5 beautiful young women.

Later we see those self same women arrive at a luxury hotel on a nearby island and are then taken to the island shown in the opening scene .They have been assured the boatman-its the same one -will return for them soon .He does not and the group are stranded on the island with the unseen stranger ,a man who clearly has fell designs on the group.They begin to unravel ,as the veneer of sophistication is stripped away and soon there are deaths .The one hope is a friend who arrives from New York and who may be able to track them down .

The plot is predictable and while decorative the leads are unlikely to win any acting awards .The good location photography is a decided asset in what is a moderate time passer but nothing more .The predictable script and obvious twist ending are liabilities but providing you do not expect too much this just about passes muster

This is probably the most awful movie I ever was forced to sit through. I kept waiting for something to happen that was real. But not one moment came and went. Not one. Maybe a few from Carlos Ponce, the detective, but he had almost a cameo role. As for the six bimbos stranded as they say on the island, not one could act their way out of a sand pit. Running around in skimpy bikinis (that ought to sell tickets) and constantly screaming so much you wished they would be wiped out. Just to stop that insane screeching. Making their faces tormented (acting?) and running around going nowhere. I had to mute the sound on the TV set just to cut their shrill voices. Especially the big blond with the big boobs. She drove me crazy. Erica Durance, Brienne De Beau, Michelle Jones, Jessica Lauren, Vane Mellon, Ashley Totin were the babes. Not one can act. Good looking Jack Hartnett (director and writer) played the guy on the rescue mission. Unfortunately, he doesn't last too long.

Where do they get these bimbos for movies? Certainly not from auditions. Or the director was smitten by boobs and bikinis. Because he didn't get one performance from any of them. And, come on, after a while you get tired of looking at bouncing boobs. I can rent a porno for that and get better results with more satisfaction.

Have you ever turned on the TV and found that there was a film on and even though you've missed the first twenty minutes you decide to keep watching? Well that's how I came across stranded. I have to admit that the young ladies were extremely good on the eye and the story line was familiar but what kept me watching was surprise surprise the acting. This film was not about good looking women running around an exotic landscape they could act!! I recognised the baddie from the film Hitch (Boy I need to get out more!!) but I did not recognise the leading lady as being on Smallville (Boy I need to stay in more!!). All in all I liked stranded and if I come across it in the TV listings or on DVD I will certainly give it a second viewing.

Insufferably bad made-for-TV thriller that tries to be a slasher movie without gore, nudity, atmosphere, or anything resembling quality production values. The script is full of exposition and clichés. The acting is pedestrian. The only person in the cast I recognize is the star, Erica Durance. Everyone else could've just stepped off the Greyhound bus the first day of filming for all I know. Anyway the plot has Erica getting married so she has a bachelorette party with her bridesmaids on a secluded Caribbean island. Because that's a thing someone would do. When the boat they chartered doesn't return to pick them up they realize they are stranded (cue dramatic music). Soon the girls start to disappear one by one. The question isn't who, how, or why but do you really care? I know I didn't. I like Erica Durance from Smallville and it was nice to see her in something else since she hasn't done much besides that. She's very attractive (especially in her bikini) and tries her able best to breathe life into the dead script. Seriously, watch how she tries to bring some energy to things while the other actresses just recite their lines in the most monotonous way possible. And they drone on and on and on because they have so many lines of pointless dialogue that add nothing to the movie. So I give Erica points for that but, to be fair, she's a limited actress and that really shows in the final act when things get intense (or this movie's impersonation of intense). What we're left with is a complete dud that only die-hard fans of Erica will be willing to suffer through. Talky, boring, predictable, and bland.