While vacationing on a Thai island, Neil (Luke Hemsworth) and Christine (Maggie Q) wake up in their beds with no memory of the previous night, bloodied, and muddied. They are trying to board a boat to leave the island but everything seems to be conspiring to keep them on the island. There is a typhoon bearing down on the area but everybody assures them that there has never been a storm in 200 years.
This is a Kafkaesque horror. She is basically the Wicker Woman in a town where everybody knows something dark and dangerous. The language difference is good for the feeling of fish out of water. It's pretty easy to piece the secret together. That's why I don't want the exposition from Madee. The movie would work better if it gets more and more surreal. It doesn't need explaining. The location could be smaller. This seems to be a relatively big town. A smaller hamlet would be creepier. I love the little girl's turn. This is not a jumpy horror but it does have some good creeps. At the very least, it's an exotic vacation in a tropical location.
Death of Me
2020
Action / Horror / Mystery / Thriller
Death of Me
2020
Action / Horror / Mystery / Thriller
Plot summary
Vacationing on an island off the coast of Thailand, couple Neil and Christine awake hungover and with no memory of the previous night. They find footage on Neil's camera, and watch, horrified, as Neil appears to murder Christine. With twenty-four hours until the next ferry and a typhoon threatening the island, Christine and Neil attempt to reconstruct the night's events -- and are snared in a web of mystery, black magic, and murder.
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Wicker Woman
Oh dear lord...
I sat down to watch the 2020 movie "Death of Me" without having even heard about it prior to sitting down to watch it.
It was nice, though, to find out that the movie had Maggie Q on the cast list, as she usually tend to be in some adequate enough movies, so I must admit that I had hoped that "Death of Me", which was listed as a mystery horror/thriller, would turn out to be a good movie.
Yeah, except it didn't...
The storyline that writers Ari Margolis, James Morley III and David Tish had managed to put together made absolutely no sense at all. Sure, for the first half of the movie it was fun enough to try to figure out what was going on, but then the air just deflated from the balloon and the movie went flaccid. From about halfway and on to the end, the movie just made absolutely no sense, and I had given up trying to figure out what was really going on. The entire storyline was just a random scramble of incoherent scenes actually.
The acting in "Death of Me" was fair, and both Maggie Q and Luke Hemsworth were actually carrying the movie well enough. Just a shame that they were severely hindered by what can only be described as an utterly rubbish storyline.
As the movie ended, I sat even more dumbfounded than I did throughout the course of the movie. There simply was no foreclosure or satisfying end to the storyline - or what was supposed to be a storyline.
I managed to endure through this heap of rubbish. And believe you me when I say that you had best spend your time, money and effort elsewhere, because "Death of Me" is just not worth it.
Actually, the cause of death of Christine might just prove to be utter boredom.
My rating of "Death of Me" lands on a generous three out of ten stars, solely because of the production value, the editing and the scenic visuals the movie offered.
You asked for it.
Neil (Luke Hemsworth ) works for a travel magazine. He is doing a story on a vacation spot on a Thai Island. His wife Christine (Maggie Q ) is with him. They wake up not knowing what happened to them, victims of a blackout with missing passports. A strange video shows up on Neil's phone of him killing Christine, which irks them both as they can't get answers. They back track their steps.
WE get an answer near the end. I think the story might have been better if it wasn't a mystery, maybe showing us the previous victim as an opening teaser.
Guide: F-word. Sex. No nudity.