The Age of Commercialism

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

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.

Without a doubt Shailene Woodley carries this movie. But she does it in such a masterful way that the other cast are not over shadowed by her. Its a true story int the truest sense,and the feeling and emotion that it brings with it magnify the enjoyment of the movie. It does not have the usual hollywood cliches or licence to exaggerate that hollywood "true" stories do so often...it actually sticks to the actual story very well. And also thank you Hollywood for letting us see "Triss" in a bikini! ;)

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...

Awh, can't believe this is actually a true story !!! what strong woman. The story is perfectly built and the script is written beautifully, with jumps between the past and the now and there was almost none of these dull slow moments where you wished there's a fast-forward button to press. and gotta give it to the directing as well,, the Icelandic Baltasar Kormákur is not new at this type of movies ,, go check his infamous "Everest" and "Deep" ,, and i happen to notice that most of his movies are in the sea !! weird :DThe cast choice was on point ,, i mean who doesn't love that "The Fault in Our Stars " girl, Shailene Woodley, even though sometimes i think she's too much,, but still she's a really good actress.Final thought,, this is a family, adventure, action movie opened just two months ago i think, and even though it didn't make a big fuss in the box office it is so recommended.