Reviews

I found the trailer interesting enough to watch and assumed it would be boring. In my view survival movies are extremely hard to do without the right director or actor involved. The premise begins with a refugee crisis in Spain that forces them chose containers to escape their demise. I wondered "have other refugees done this before? Ending with only one survivor out of the handful? I must state the premise was fresh to me, and the main reason I continued to see how the story evolved.

For good reason, one-person movies are hardly done and done well. It takes courage to write, produce, and direct, Moreso, praise for the person who attempts a character who keeps their head together as best they can, while you are feeling their emotional swings. Think Foster in Panic Room. Better, think Hanks in Cast Away. Better yet, Bullock in Gravity inside a space module that slowly loses power. These actors have abundant acting know-how to hold the viewer's interest: either stuck on an island searching for ways to be saved, stuck in a 6 by 8 room looking for precise moments out to acquire her daughter's insulin, and now we can add Castillo floating in a shipping container (with bullet holes for better or worse) adrift at sea clawing her way back to civilization for her baby and herself. This movie should not be missed. Better than I expected.

The characters in this show were reaching for a better life, albeit laundrying big cartel drug money, with good intentions once they reached their windfalls. They did whatever was necessary to stay alive. I rooted for those with a big heart wanting more out of life. I even said hooray for those killed off along the way that passed as good Christians with bad intentions. After all was said and done I wanted Ruth and the Byrds to live their dream. The writers wrote enormously well and actors acted their hearts out. There had to be a better ending for the main plot. Somehow I think with all the twists and turns the writers went brain dead in the last 20 minutes.