Three woman, Sarah, Abby and Lou go together to a remote island in hopes of seeking their faded friendship. Accidentally, they meet three vetegan sodiers, Herry, Derek and Alex. After Abby mudder Herry when he tries to rape her, the three girls get caught on the deadly chase for revenge by Derek and Alex.
We've seen Duplass write scripts that break cinema conventions like this, but who knew that his actress wife Aselton would turn out to be an equally innovative director?
Black Rock is a simplistic, predictable thriller that fails to become engaging thanks to idiotic characters and a by the numbers approach that has the audience two steps ahead of them.
It seemed that Black Rock might take its very basic premise and use it as a platform to explore larger ideas. But even on its own terms as just a lean-and-mean genre exercise, this one's not all that interesting.
