Sunday, February 2, 2020

Frenzy (2018)

aka Surrounded

What do you do when you're an influencer who's a travel blogger and you've got a crazy group of friends?  Well naturally you do something stupid like travel to a cove that people are prohibited from visiting. Nothing could possibly go wrong.

Paige and her friends post about their crazy adventures around the world. Paige is a risk taker, baby! Her sister Lindsey is more conservative, but is convinced to join the crew on a trip to the cove. Paige and the group are convinced this will bring them tons of hits, thus increasing the money they make from their vlog.

They hire a pilot to fly them to the isolated area. But a few miles away from their destination, the wing comes apart, the door falls off, and several people are sucked out of the plane.

Lindsey surfaces from the crash and finds a couple of the others.  No one tries to grab hold of anything floating the water to conserve energy. One guy decides to swim to an island about a mile away because it should have supplies. He doesn't take anything with him to keep him afloat. Things go from bad to worse when they discover there are sharks in the water.

The movie goes from present day to flashbacks explaining the relationships between the sisters and giving info on the group dynamics.  But you don't care about the characters so if a shark eats them it doesn't matter.  Watch for the scene where the girl with a broken leg uses a lasso to pull a huge boulder off the island onto a shark. There are so many things wrong with that.