Megan Fox is an actress whose beauty seems to get in the way of her acting. Not sure if it’s her fault, but most of the time she’s on screen, she’s just kind of there, as a gorgeous prop. In fact, her best (most animated, certainly) performance might have been in the Love the Way You Lie video by Eminem and that was ages ago.
But here, in this tale of marital getaway gone terribly, terribly wrong, to Fox’s credit she goes all out. Mind you, at first the movie starts off as a wooden cliché of a scene with Fox finishing an extramarital affair with…well, wooden clichéd performance. It continues as we are introduced to her workaholic hubby she’s been sleeping around on, as he wines and dines her and takes her away to a remote snowed-in cabin for a fresh start. And then she wakes up and realizes that his idea of a fresh start is suicide, while handcuffed to her. Boom. Awesome as far as plot drivers go. Now she has to figure out a way to get out of her predicament, while dragging a corpse around. Her husband has thought of so many details too – there are no sharp objects to be found, her phone’s dead, the car’s gas has been syphoned. She is miles away from civilization, but sure enough civilization will find her. And not in a good “let me help you” kind of way either, but in a distinctly murderous one. The last F U from her dearly beloved, a freshly released criminal who attacked her years ago. So yeah, lots to contend with, all in the dead of winter, and Megan Fox does a great job. In a thoroughly committed performance she sheds her glamorous look for rags and her graceful gliding through scenes for all there all the time viscerally physical performance of a proper and thrilling struggle for survival. Credit where credit’s due, kudos and so on. Nicely done. All in all, sure, somewhat cheesy, somewhat predictable, but with enough exciting twists and enough taut suspense to maintain your interest. And just think, that body she drags around in the snow, that was some stuntman’s job, possibly a highlight of someone’s career. Crazy sauce. At any rate, as far as cinematic dissolutions of marriages go, this was a fun one and well worth a watch.
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