Send Help (2026) - 6/10

Offices are the definition of hell on earth. People blame the buildings, the surroundings, those dreary cubical. That has nothing to do with it. People is what makes them insufferable places. Linda (Rachel McAdams) is trying to get ahead in one such place, but people (and more specifically men) like Bradley (Dylan O’Brien) are keeping her down. It’s frustrating to watch, even more so I’d imagine as a woman recognising this reality. Here though, things are dialled up to stage a spectacularly violent revenge plot. Bradley, the boss (nepotism not talent) doesn’t think Linda’s face fits, acknowledges her talent, but is happy to reinforce the glass ceiling. Linda trying to keep her head up, repeats empty mantras to herself, but after the pair find themselves the only two survivors of a plane crash on a desert island, Linda discovers she really is enough, just the way she is… in fact she’s force to be reckoned with. Now despite the very real patriarchal issues this addresses, from the crash onward in particular, it takes a turn for the comically fantastical. Linda, an avid fan of the TV show Survivor, has everything in hand and finds herself enjoying it. Bradley however finds his many inadequacies amplified. Despite some of the bloodlust, there’s very little grit to start. It’s pretty silly, a bit quirky in tone and it has a pretty intrusive score. It does look good though and there is a little tension as the islands hostile nature tests them and Bradley plots… even if his plot is as thin as the films. That’s not to say this isn’t fun though and McAdams is decent doing all the heavy lifting, but I was hoping and expecting much more. Even as things take a darker twist with a typical Sam Raimi vibe. With a slightly stronger second act, this could’ve been excellent. Instead it’s merely a solidly entertaining dark comedic horror romp.

6/10