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This film begins on fine footing, we're introduced to all of the characters and all of the requisite personality types are present for this type of story. It continues a little predictably but I was still with it. Then all of a sudden, and with no signs of it coming, all of the characters suddenly turn hyper-paranoid and aggressive. There's no gradual progression down this path which would make it plausible and engaging, but very abruptly so that it's not only unrealistic but makes the viewer feel insulted that the director would actually expect us to accept this. In addition, it enforces negative gender stereotypes - the men are all aggressive hot-heads and the women are passive observers of the random barbarism of their male counterparts. This film really is a mess and honestly feels like a waste of resources and talent.

Lots of shirtless people parading seminaked in a deserted island. The plot pays homage to Lord of the flies but if they were cockroaches instead. Abercrombie & Fitch could not fit them in their 2015 catalogue so they cast them in this wannabe thriller instead.

Why do some movies get made? Why did this one? No, really, I'm asking, because I don't for the life of me know why. Production values seem reasonably high - the plane crash, CGI for missing limbs etc. Why didn't they spend a few bucks on the script?! - it is just stupid on top of stupid. E.g. they are marooned on a desert Island with few supplies, needing to conserve strength, yet they run around playing soccer, continuously swim back and forth between two Islands (a mile apart) engage in sexual relations constantly (but zero nudity) - and I could go on, but I will not waste any more of my energy on this turd of a motion picture

It appears to be directed and written by a teenager with excessive testosterone.

Unrealistic. With egocentric, alfha males measuring who has the biggest...

Very, very, very bad.

What a waste of time...

Started off reasonably well although I think the airplane crash scene could have been longer and more interesting.

Up until the point they find the Japanese soldier all was proceeding well, then it all just went to pot. Lord of the Flies this most definitely isnt!

The illogical actions that no one would do if abandoned on a desert island in the middle of nowhere and the poor story just weakened the whole premise and the ending well....SANDS OF THE KALAHARI - I guess the director had just watched that classic and thought he would throw that ending in lol

Could have been good but like most of the films I am watching over the last few years, they just dont seem to have decent story writers and cannot sustain the pace that a good film needs to keep audiences involved.

I disagree with some reviewers that Eden involves exaggerated over-characterisations, or that the male/female divide is hotheads on the one hand and passivity on the other. Nor is the path to aggression abrupt and unrealistic. They start off with food for less than a week and water about the same, so the changes come as quickly as thirst and starvation make their mark. This is a famous and successful soccer team, young American men who by now are cock-sure of themselves and feel a sense of entitlement. It couldn't have been easy to act in this movie, yet the actors do a really magnificent job. I'd give it more points but for anyone whose seen or read Lord of the Flies, well, you know how it plays out. That's not to say that Eden is not a highly engaging thriller and tense drama, and well worth anyone's Saturday afternoon.

The fighting and the beating between the male characters of this film is way out of what someone would expect under a situation of food scarcity. I mean I understand tension arising cause of the sudden and abnormal situation that the group is facing but that goes way out of that. Same goes for all the swimming between the 2 islands which they have more than a mile distance. Swimming a distance like that in an open ocean is a very exhausting activity even for athletes. Same applies for the sexual encounters that happen. Overall a cheap production that is hardly convincing.

Yes, it is a modern day Lord of the flies... It shows how the best of intentions become disastrous for all while the spineless people end up heroes. In that way, it also depicts the irony of how people who are real heroes end up villains in the eyes of the others because of circumstances. I think Andy was the best of the lot but ended up as a person everyone ends up hating in the end, while the others who were not able to take tough decisions took the worst decision by should how inhuman they really can be in the end. Good movie, good story, excellent acting and a must watch for people who enjoy psychological thrillers. I have already watched it twice :)

Seriously, soccer players aside, no set of men and women are as sexy and hot after being in a plane crash. Oh, and it's a "Lord Of The Flies" remake. Only hotter and sweatier. That's honestly the plot, also.

The script writer must have actually been a teenager it was that bad. Nothing made sense, there was no survival elements to the story just Macho idiotic drama.

Lots of hot shirtless people tho so.

Plot loses its way. Underdeveloped. Two male leads do a good job with a less than compelling script. (I only watched this because I thought it was the movie with the same name from 2013 starring Beau Bridges but I was wrong!)

Day 6 all still clean shaven. Day 8 almost fully grown in beards.

So I really tried to like this movie because I read all of the terrible reviews. I wasn't a fan of the book Lord of the Flies when I had to read it in school, but grew to appreciate it as I matured. Definitely see the comparison. Opening really foreshadowed events to come. I felt like they missed a bit with the lack of real character development in this movie, but I urge you to watch it to the end.

I ended up liking this movie more than I thought I was going to. So Rock On! #iheartslim

Scenario is problem. People's reactions after the crash are not natural. They choose the leader after only a day or two, divided into clans and fighting for power. Such behavior is not close to sportsmen and they should be socially responsible. There are not activities on signaling rescuers or similar things. No exploration of the island. There is no explanation for traps and explosion (motives taken from the Lost) The focus is on human nature, behavior, and domination, but too early and exaggerate.

Ah, yes, the Eden film a near beat by beat rip off of 1997's Endangered Species by Rick Boyer -both are, in essence, meditations on the disintegration of civility under the strain of survival, with stranded souls contending with scarcity, fear, and a profound sense of their own mortality. Both, of course, are marinated in conflict, with a handful of characters left to wrestle not only with nature's indifference but with their own, rather unflattering, tendencies toward selfishness and betrayal. Power plays, snatched rations, and violent spats unfold with all the subtleness of a bar brawl, while tension simmers just beneath the surface, ready to boil over into something decidedly ugly. But here's where the comparison falters-Eden, as much as it may try, is a bit like a dinner party that starts with potential and ends with drunken fistfights. Its penchant for melodrama and gratuitous violence smothers any deeper examination of character or purpose. Meanwhile, Endangered Species, without the need to shout, whispers with a sharper clarity-a far more sophisticated and restrained study of human nature. One attempts to wrangle meaning from its chaos, while the other... well, it's a bit too fond of the chaos to bother with meaning. One has to wonder why if you're going to steal every major event from this incredibly novel, you are just gonna dress it down with such mediocrity.