Liked the movie overall. It's not a horror, really, more of a thriller. Lead actress played her role very well. Some things were questionable here and there, like at the start somehow a big very fancy hotel in Thailand is totally deserted except for the blonde influencer and eventually one old British guy lol. Letting some of that go, the plot was interesting with the lead finding and stealing influencers belongings and money to finance her life. Feel let down a bit on the ending, though. It was like the movie needed another five minutes and small tweak or two at the end for a strong finish. CW goes back to the island to dump the boyfriends body, finds her last victim (the blonde influencer) not dead like others before. Ok, we've all seen enough movies to know she wasn't going to be dead, right? Still, why would CW trudge across the relatively small island (she managed to walk from one end to the other pretty fast) to look for her victim? All I kept thinking was the second you're away from the boat, she's going to take it and leave you there. Why would CW mark the graves of the others she's buried out there? It's a deserted island and you still buried people just in case they ever were discovered right? So, if anyone did happen to ever come across the island, the crosses were a big flag to dig here and find bodies. It invalidates her bothering to bury them in the first place. If no one seems to ever come to this island, they wouldn't even have needed burying and she should have just dumped the boyfriend's body in the brush just off the beach, hopped back into her boat, and left. So, the blonde knocks out CW during her search of the island and yup, leaves on the boat and leaves CW behind. First though she lifts the tarp on the boat to see her boyfriend there dead and her expression stays the same. No emotion change at all. ??? We can't even tell if the body is still on the boat when she leaves the beach on it because of the angle of the camera shot and then, the movie just ends with CW on the beach laughing like 'oh, you got me the same way I got you' and the blonde boating back to mainland. That's it? Why not tie up CW after knocking her out to ask WHY she did all this to her? How her boyfriend ended up there dead too? Why not show us a bit about how the blonde survived on this tiny island for a month when no one else did before her? Doesn't seem there are any animals on the island, no fresh water source, so how? Ending would have been stronger if she confronted CW, maybe hid / covered up anything that gave clues as to how she survived there that long so CW couldn't do the same, and then left with CW screaming at her from the beach as the blonde pulled away on the boat. That would have been a stronger ending.
Review of Influencer
