lacking in concept, but can be watched for the adventure

Rating: 6/10 (23 January 2006)

Starts promising, but turns out to be something of a promising waste of time. It is cool when he arrives in Thailand, finds the map and they swim to the island, because of the suspense and all (though not enough of that either). However, the disappointing thing is that the to-be-expected alternative people on the island aren't alternative in any significant way (except their clothes and makeover), and lack any kind of interesting alternative ideas that their life there, one would expect, be based on. They just created a relatively quiet and private city away from the city, and even buy most of what they need from the big city.
Anyways, I found DiCaprio's performance quite good, though his character was somewhat disoriented and finally kind of broke down psychologically as he got isolated and started getting high on shrooms. He kind of really whacked out.
I would have still been happy to see the movie as a good adventure in beautiful environment, but that you can't fully enjoy either since the sight of the shark stricken people in its middle is more than very hard to take calmly, though the styling of it is i suppose what would be called professional.
It is an OK movie.