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SEND HELP 🏝️(2026)

When you spend forty of your waking hours working in an office space where you are forced to endure something you’re genuinely passionate about, rather than simply letting your work ethic get you to where you deserve to be, how can you not get frustrated?

That’s the case for Linda Liddle from Strategy and Planning.

She’s spent years going over the company reports with a fine-tooth comb, helping alleviate pain points for the company, and has been promised a position as VP, just to have the CEO’s son sweep in after his father’s passing to hand the position over to his golf partner.

The CEO’s son, Bradley Preston, decides to use her for one final task: help the company finalize their documents before their big merger in Bangkok. The thing is—they never get there.

On the way over, the plane crash-lands onto a remote island, leaving the obnoxious nepo-baby boss and the do-good, dorky employee completely stranded.

Talk about worst-case scenario.

SEND HELP is a chaotically absurd workplace horror-comedy that leans hard into corporate power dynamics and the exhausting “boys’ club” reality women are forced to navigate in office politics.

The survivor-thriller aspect is done well, with a comedic tone that balances itself against an element of horror that unravels the psychological state of two people from two completely different walks of life.

At face value, the story is what captured my attention. Everyone, at one point or another, has had a boss they didn’t agree with, or maybe one that played favourites.

Now that I have a few years working in HR and understanding scenarios like this, and the expectations of power dynamics in the workplace, I was intrigued how they would pay that off.

The story starts off strong, watching the power balance shift and seeing how fast someone can go from judging those in power to becoming the very thing they despise was built up really well.

If you shave off twenty minutes and keep the motivations and actions of the characters consistent with what they start off as, I would've considered this movie damn near perfect. Instead, it begins to dive too deep into characters' backstories, creating a batch of new meaning and motivation that deviates too far from the central themes I felt the movie should've been centered around, which is the dynamic between employer and employee in the modern workplace, and how that relationship morphs outside of that environment.

This movie would've been applauded by the ladies who are stuck placating to the boys' club and clique nature of workplace politics, but in this case, the story gets lost in the sauce and, in my opinion, loses the plot entirely.

By the end I honestly had no idea who I was supposed to (or wanted to) root for, but it didn’t even matter.Rachel McAdams (The Notebook, Doctor Strange, Mean Girls) and Dylan O'Brien (Maze Runner, Saturday Night, Bumblebee) deliver two insanely unhinged performances—the chaos ratchets up to the point you can't help but be entertained.

I left this movie feeling like, where has this Rachel McAdams been?!

Her character is a Survivor fan that gets to live out her fantasy in two ways: playing Survivor with real do-or-die stakes, and showing her true out-of-office value with her no-good boss at her mercy. This is her version of "I'm the captain (or boss) now," and it's such crazy fun seeing her tap into this kind of role.

With Valentine's around the corner, there's no better date-night movie than watching two people bring out the worst in each other. Just pure, unfiltered chaos.

SEND HELP is a vicious reminder that the laws of society are nothing compared to the rules of the jungle, and that help isn't always on the way—so you better start saving yourself. 

Enjoy!

7.1/10 🍿 🎥

Runtime: 1hr54mins

Where: In Theatres January 30th.

The Richmond Reviewer Send Help Review - January 29th, 2026.

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