Very well done! A must see if you like disaster based on true events stories! Also can serve as a good lesson for young people to think twice before jumping into adventure!

When the movie started with screaming and craziness at the beginning I thought to myself 'oh god here we go, another over dramatised film with no story.' After a while though, I had realised I was in fact wrong and they were about to skip backwards and forwards to fill in any gaps we have so we feel like we know these people, who are acting on behalf of a true story. It was nice that they did take a lot of time showing us their relationship, beginning too end so we can understand who, why and how. My opinion on the two lead roles is surprising, for the first half of the film I thought the female had only been cast for her looks to be honest but again, I was wrong. She did a decent job and surpassed my expectations. The main lead, hmm he was very bluh but this might of been mainly due to the script. I don't know if he died in the film or survived, that's how much I cared for his character and after watching his fiancée cry in a boat alone at the end, I had come to the conclusion he was in fact dead. I'll be honest, the film didn't make that clear enough to me in the sense that one minute he was there and the next he was not. I just struggled to care. The issue with these kinds of films is how they have to space out the little they do on the boat in the runtime of an hour and half/two hours, it can be a challenge. So film makers in this genre fill it in with little substance, which is a problem with a film where not much happens. In the case of this film, they did a decent job with trying to fill those spaces with guitar solos, sardines and beer. They had the option of doing this as the boat had these resources, other wise it would have been a lot more of an Open Water style where you literally just see the water and two people for the best part of an hour (I didn't mind Open Water) but it's nice that in this film they try to show survival and what the body and mind goes through when struggling at the worst conditions imaginable. They show the female lead fighting to stay alive, honestly made me feel like I'd hate to be in that situation. I've rated it so low for a number of reasons, one of which I've aleady mention; the long repeated scenes with not much happening. I can't rate any film high that nearly sends me to sleep, disliked Gravity for this same reason. I like stuck out at sea films, don't get me wrong but I believe this isn't ground breaking stuff and can be easily repeated by following directors. I would like it if they did a film based on the true story of one of these big ships that went missing with loads of people on it, bermuda triangle style? I don't know if this would work but I'm putting it out there. So yes this film wasn't terrible, if you like your sea films then it's worth a watch to pass the time but I don't think I'll be rewatching it any time soon.5/10

When I studied English the Tutor once told me a thing he hated. 'Never fool your audience.' They will resent you for it. This film made me think of my English Literature teacher. It plays on your emotions rather than grip at your imagination. Sorry folks...5/10 again

Sometimes it seems to me it is a burden if you know tons of very good to outstanding movies - I remember a superb one called All Is Lost from 2013 with the titan Robert Redford playing. Adrift is a fine play about a man fighting for survival against all odds on the ocean and got almost no spoken word, only the great Redford fighting against the currents and winds.Adrift is clearly no real survival movie nor plays in the same league as Adrift - too much time gets lost around the mumbo jumbo of love/romance and with the cheap technique called "flashback", the director/writers drown any suspense that may dare to lurk around the corner (one of the dangers of hopping around in the timeline if not well done and that's how it felt to me regarding Adrift). Many times "time-hopping" is just an easy way to fill screen-time if you got not really much to tell about the main theme and you have to cover screen-time. In All Is Lost we did not know much about the man fighting for his life but we learned a lot about him while he was fighting for his life, compared the characters of Adrift are simple card boards (typical millennials somehow lost in the sea).To sum it up: all in all Adrift is a movie for a young audience who like those actors (who did an okay job) and want the romance thing and some nice pics, and yes, some survival drama on a boat. Note: even alone on the boat the girl had nonstop to talk and scream and jumping around instead of sparing her energy for the real work - Redford did all his work with sparse mimic and gestures - Woodley behaved sometimes like a bunny on speed. Well, maybe she got some "stuff" with her and used it ;)Verdict: okay. But don't get confused by those inflationary 10 rate reviews made by bots, hired guns, fanboys or whatever...