Three (2005) Movie Review, Trailer, Film Still and Poster

USA, UK, Luxembourg 2005
Director: Stewart Raffill
Cast: Kelly Brook, Billy Zane, Juan Pablo Di Pace, Maria Victoria Di Pace
Rating: -
Release Date: May 5th 2006
Running Time: 1 hour 35 minutes

The Movie Review

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THREE (Survival Island)
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Sigh...reusing someone's idea as the basis of a movie is something highly common, the challenge lies in the twist from the original idea. If the original idea is already dull, then the challenge is even bigger.

In my opinion the above sentence refers to Cast Away as the original idea and Survival Island (or known as Three in some european countries) as the derivative idea. Truth be told, Cast Away was something of a novelty that has achieve critical acclaim, mostly (if not to say solely) thanks to the performance of Tom Hanks, without him Cast Away would be an incredibly boring movie. Three highly likely tries to use the same premise and adds it with some twist but lacks all the necessary elements needed to even makes it interesting.

The plot goes like this, Jennifer (Kelly Brook) and his husband Jack (Billy Zane) along with another couple are about to embark on a yacht vacation in the south pacific, when suddenly they witness the yacht servant Manuel (Juan Pablo Di Pace) gets into argument with his girlfriend and Manuel ends up to slap her. On the yacht things are already not going well between Jack and Manuel who thinks of Jack as an arrogant millioner.

Their vacation's gone awry when the yacht explodes. Jennifer manages to swim to an uninhabited island, and Manuel as well. They build a hut and comforting each other, soon romance is sparking between them. On the following day, Manuel finds Jack lying helplessly on a rock and takes him back to the hut. Fully recovered, Jack starts to notice the intimate-friend relationship between Manuel and Jennifer. The three survivors' new world soon jeopardized by the threat of a love triangle.

Three contains several rip-offs from other movies, like Cast Away, Swept Away and even day-time soap opera shows. It combines too many elements with little emphasis on each of them. The romantic scenes and the brawl between the boys as well as the rest of the scenes are merely uninteresting. This film is yawn-inducing. One thing worth watching is Kelly that graces the screen and saves the days, the boring days of the surival island.

> Vacations gone awry: Pinata: Survival Island (2002), Turistas (2007) and Long Weekend (1978).