I liked this film. Decent production quality and acting for the budget level. Lake Bell is a natural beauty and a joy to behold every time she is on the screen. The tension is well built and the story progresses at an engaging pace. The action and violence is handled reasonable well if perhaps not entirely expertly. Overall a well done and entertaining effort. *** SPOILERS *** Elements of the plot suggest a distorted moral sensibility or perhaps a screen writer with psychological issues : One of the three female characters is physically engaging one of the men while the group drinks around the camp fire. Touching him flirting with him, overtly verbally expressing her attraction for him while she caresses him in front of the group. This is a man she only met hours earlier. He is reluctant and repeatedly disengages her physical advances. It appears he would prefer to speak to a different woman sitting in front of the fire. The flirtatious woman seems to reach a point of frustration since her advances are not reciprocated so she goes to the woods for a bathroom break shall we say and she lures the man she is interested in to come join her. He does. She kisses him passionately and so he asks if she wants to "have fun". In the context of the scene the invitation is for sex. She agrees. They are lying on the ground, both breathing hard and apparently sex hormones now raging at high levels in both, removing clothing. Suddenly she decides she no longer wants to have sex and she murders the man by crashing a sharp rock into the side of his skull.Now as a viewer it is clear that this woman is emotionally unstable and she has just gone insane and killed a man she doesn't even know. A man she enticed to have sex in the woods. She spuriously and with little warning changed her mind about having sex and kills this poor guy.I believe that the audience is supposed to side with the woman because there was a point in time where she appeared to change her mind. Any judge or prosecutor viewing the exact same footage would clearly convict her of entrapment / murder but the viewer I believe is supposed to see it as an attempted rape.In a sense this one scene, given that it is the pivotal scene of the film, is disastrously misguided. The screen writer should have made it a clear case of attempted rape so that the viewer would side with the woman as a potential victim rather than an obvious criminal psychotic. The women then proceed to murder the other two men and escape to freedom by stealing the dead men's boat. The film was quite good. I enjoyed watching it, but the women in the story were not the valiant women defending themselves against a trio of evil men they were unstable violent criminals plain and simple. I suspect the woman who wrote the screen play, Katie Aselton, sees it differently. This is a sad comment on how women view the world they live in and their place in it, but such is the state of humanity.

Everybody associated with this movie should be ashamed. I've never served in the military, and this film still made me sick. Feminists vs returning vets. Guess who the bad guys are. I'll NEVER watch another film with any of these people in it. The premise is stupid. Thea actors are lame. The plot is predictable Hollywood bullshit. I'm having trouble writing ten lines about just how offensive this movie is. If you, or anybody in your family, or anybody you know has ever served in the military, do NOT watch this movie. It will only infuriate you. How sad that this is how Americans want to portray those who defend us. Two naked girls running through the woods trying to defend themselves from returning war vets and working out all their drama queen bullsh@t differences in about 20 seconds along the way. Disgusting. Shame on you all.

Mark Duplass needs to stick to comedies. I realize he also wrote the horror-ish movie Baghead, but I hated that too. His comedies are much better than his pseudo-horror movies. Black Rock is like Deliverance, if the main characters were stupid, and if instead of inbred hillbillies, you have Iraq war vets. Cause we all need to be scared of the men and women of the armed forces.Black Rock is based on the idea of Sarah (Kate Bosworth) wanting a getaway weekend with her two friends, who don't speak to each other. So she invited them both out, and made it seem like they were each only getting one-on-one time, instead of a threesome. Lou (Lake Bell) and Abby (Katie Aselton) hate each other. Old pointless drama. Anyway, for the weekend, they decided to go camp out on a small island called Black Rock. Of course, things aren't so easy. They run into three war vets who are out hunting deer. Abby, feeling functionally retarded, decides to become the least likable person in the trio. She starts heavily flirting with one of the war guys, lures him off into the woods for some drunken hanky panky. Midway through, she decides to change her mind, and now she's being "raped" because the guy isn't stopping mid-way. He's probably as confused as the audience is at this point. She smashes him in the head with a rock and kills him.This, rightly so, angers his Iraq buddies off, so they decide they're going to make these girls pay. For some reason, all three of them must pay. All three of them must die, because two drunk guys can't figure their stuff out. Sarah, Abby, and Lou fight for their survival on this island, trying not to get killed by the other two guys. It's all incredibly pointless, and you'll want to punch Abby in the face before the movie is over.Congratulations on being the least likable character on screen in 2013. I know, I'm a dude, and I so just don't understand "no means no", right? Oddly enough, Katie Aselton (who plays Abby AND directs the film) does a good enough job showing us that Abby is culpable, and knows what she's doing when she lures him off into the woods. It's as if Katie's real horror story here is to tell women to dump their slutty friends, because they'll end up getting them killed. Rape in film can be a really terrifying moment. Girl With A Dragon Tattoo and Irreversible come to mind. In Black Rock, this is different. Abby didn't just put herself in this situation, she created the situation. And then she killed someone. And then more people die.An even greater problem that I have is that we've decided to go with the "unstable veterans" route with the killers. Until their friend dies, there isn't much to suggest that these guys are actually crazy. I don't know why they had to be veterans, and not just hunters. Add to that a complete lack of suspense, terrible writing, and you've got the makings of a craptastic movie. I enjoyed Sharknado much more than I enjoyed this.

This movie is about 3 girls who were friends growing up, get together and go to an isolated island. You'd think they'd spend time catching up but almost immediately meet up with.....yup, 3 guys. Who turn out to be not so friendly. Quickly it turns into an all out girl vs guy fight for survival. And to get back off island alive. All the characters are poorly developed and seem so dry and unbelievable. The storyline is predictable and slow. Maybe even tedious. It's a shame because the story sounded good and had a decent cover. This movie had great potential that was not realized. It's a shame more time wasn't spent on this movie.