Adrift (2018)

Please don't spend money on this.

Crappy film

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Don't write many reviews, but for this I must... As others have stated, I was a bit skeptical going in, but having seen just the score on IMDB, I decided to chance it - and am very glad that I did...I was swept up in the story immediately. It was told with simple honesty with great acting by both leads. The time switches from past to present were perfectly structured, - and the story couldn't have been written better. The combination of the story of their meeting, subsequent growing love for each-other, combined with the story of disaster and survival was done so well. I would dare say it was perfectly structured...Highly, highly recommended.

It toches you deeply, if you love someone in your life and put yourself in the girl's shoes, you can imagine the emotions. Very good acting, at some point I forgot it was a movie, it felt so real.

Sometimes it seems to me it is a burden if you know tons of very good to outstanding movies - I remember a superb one called All Is Lost from 2013 with the titan Robert Redford playing. Adrift is a fine play about a man fighting for survival against all odds on the ocean and got almost no spoken word, only the great Redford fighting against the currents and winds.Adrift is clearly no real survival movie nor plays in the same league as Adrift - too much time gets lost around the mumbo jumbo of love/romance and with the cheap technique called "flashback", the director/writers drown any suspense that may dare to lurk around the corner (one of the dangers of hopping around in the timeline if not well done and that's how it felt to me regarding Adrift). Many times "time-hopping" is just an easy way to fill screen-time if you got not really much to tell about the main theme and you have to cover screen-time. In All Is Lost we did not know much about the man fighting for his life but we learned a lot about him while he was fighting for his life, compared the characters of Adrift are simple card boards (typical millennials somehow lost in the sea).To sum it up: all in all Adrift is a movie for a young audience who like those actors (who did an okay job) and want the romance thing and some nice pics, and yes, some survival drama on a boat. Note: even alone on the boat the girl had nonstop to talk and scream and jumping around instead of sparing her energy for the real work - Redford did all his work with sparse mimic and gestures - Woodley behaved sometimes like a bunny on speed. Well, maybe she got some "stuff" with her and used it ;)Verdict: okay. But don't get confused by those inflationary 10 rate reviews made by bots, hired guns, fanboys or whatever...

A story that has been told in other movies! Nothing special! Can't understand why this movie cost 35$ million to make ! I mean there's clearly some CGI of the sea and storm , can't be high production costs for Fiji shots and there's not a huge cast . So where the money go?