Country: USA
Review: “Black Rock” emerged from the collaboration between Katie Aselton
(direction and acting) and her husband Mark Duplass (screenplay), being an
uninteresting exercise on horror thriller. The film is about three childhood
friends who decide to set up a girls’ weekend in a remote island to bring their
friendship back on solid terms. Provided with improvised hand-drawn maps, as in
a real treasure hunt, they would be ready for a pleasant adventure, if three
men didn’t have crossed their path. This unfortunate encounter will leave
traces of blood and death. The script didn’t exactly show imagination or
smartness, making the film fall in banal territory. Its execution was another
problem, since the majority of the scenes evinced a comic dullness, seeming
completely apart of the realism that its duo of creators had aspired. The
arguments among the girls were trivial; the survival strategies looked like as
if it were coming from kids; while the physical fights weren't genuine, giving a false impression
of fierceness. Feminists may find it brave, but the
brainless hunt depicted in “Black Rock” was incapable to catch, provoke, or
intimidate, becoming a total waste of time.
