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Sometimes, when you least expect it, an actor\u2019s performance can lift a movie into an entirely different category. Without Rachel McAdams, I imagine that Sam Raimi\u2019s horror comedy \u201cSend Help\u201d would still be perfectly watchable; a lesser performer could probably have still kept our interest in this story of an arrogant boss (Dylan O\u2019Brien) and a frustrated underling (McAdams) who improbably wind up on a deserted island together. But there\u2019s something about McAdams\u2019 way of gleefully embracing the cringiest elements of her character, and yet still finding ways to infuse her own trademark warmth<\/a>, that\u2019s mesmerizing. You\u2019ve never seen McAdams quite like this, and she carries the movie as easily as her hapless Linda wields a knife \u2014 because yes, it turns out this mousy woman actually knows just what to do in their new circumstances, thanks to lots of late-night viewing of \u201cSurvivor.\u201d<\/p>\n The dynamic between Linda and her boss, Bradley, is expertly outlined in the film\u2019s brief first act. At the perfectly named Preston Strategic Solutions (what the company actually does is, of course, left to our imaginations), Linda is that employee who does great work but is mostly mocked and ignored, because she\u2019s frumpy and awkward and has a habit of leaving smelly tuna sandwiches in her desk drawer. (An early scene in which she tries to make a demand of Bradley while having a splodge<\/span> of mayo on her face is both funny and devastating; you want so badly to hand her a napkin.) Bradley, a self-important jerk, has no use for Linda and reneges on a promised promotion; he wants, as he tells her, somebody who golfs. As a consolation prize, he offers her a spot on the corporate jet on a business trip to Thailand \u2014 only to find the two of them the lone survivors after a crash.<\/p>\n And right there, \u201cSend Help\u201d becomes a two-hander \u2014 one that\u2019s simultaneously funny and horrifying and, weirdly, entirely believable. Bradley, of course, starts mansplaining survival to Linda after she\u2019s saved his life; Linda, who\u2019s both freaked out by their circumstances but also strangely thrilled by them, gets busy building shelters and crafting backpacks out of vines and killing a particularly cranky boar for dinner (with the boar providing one of the movie\u2019s several excellent jump scares); and you wonder, with pleasure, how this can possibly end. (Spoiler alert: perfectly.) Raimi can\u2019t resist letting things get wildly over the top at times (there\u2019s a lot<\/em> of blood and vomit in this movie), but ultimately \u201cSend Help\u201d is a fascinating study of what happens when a power dynamic suddenly shifts \u2014 and when a skilled and charismatic actor is given space to try something entirely new.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yakimaherald.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Movie review Sometimes, when you least expect it, an actor\u2019s performance can lift a movie into an entirely different category. 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