Three friends from college, Jen, Scott, and Harry head to Martha’s Vineyard for New Year’s Eve. Along for the trip is Harry’s new girlfriend Lacey. Jen is a bit put off by Lacey being there since the trip was partly to work through some issues in the friendships. Most pressing is that Harry invested in a venture with Scott and appears to have lost his money. This is money he couldn’t afford to lose and Scott is cavalier about it.
The group gets into a fight after Harry sees Scott and Lacey kiss. Harry and Jen are mad at Scott. Oddly enough Scott never mentions that it was Lacey who kissed him. Everyone heads in different directions to cool down and later one of them is found dead on the beach.
This leads to the lamest attempt to resuscitate a human ever committed to film. They spend maybe ten seconds attempting revival and then declare the person deceased. In the panic there is talk of calling the police and getting help. But instead of someone continuing CPR and others going for the phone or the caretaker, they leave the body on the sand with the waves washing up on it. Holy cow people, you can’t save someone if you leave their body to the mercy of the elements
Also they believe this is a murder and lock themselves in the house. But why would they say that? There is no blood on the body and no one mentioned any juries. They barely even looked at this person.
What follows is numerous stupid decisions, culminating in a scene where someone seems intent on making as much noise as humanly possible while trying to slip away from the killer. Seriously, if you think someone is trying to kill you and you’ve locked them out of the room, don’t go clomping around on the deck because they’ll figure out you’re outside.
None of the characters are particularly likable, and Harry is such a weenie. He’s alternatively helpless and overly aggressive. You don’t care about the characters so when they die, you just sort of meh about it.
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