Sophie (Mila Kunis) is an impetuous teen who rebels against her domineering stepfather Carl. After embarrassing him, he sends her away to fake doctor Hail (Peter Stormare)'s isolated boot camp Camp Serenity on Fiji island for a year. Her boyfriend Ben (Gregory Smith) fakes a drug problem to get to the camp. It's a place of disturbing psychological torture and brutality enforced by security chief Logan.This is an useful movie for parents to see the waving red flags. The most obvious red flag is Fiji. It's a bad move to send your kid outside of proper legal jurisdiction. I wouldn't send kids to Columbia either. An isolated island halfway around the world with no visitation should obviously be a big red flag. Then there is the coed situation. Why would parents send their girls to a coed prison? That's a recipe for disaster. The problem for this movie is that it seems to be trying to make a point about all of the boot camps. Then it makes the case with the strangest and weirdest situation. Mila Kunis also fails miserably to engender any sympathy for her character. This would be a little better by making this more of an outlandish Lord-of-the-Flies story. By trying connecting it to reality, it fails as realistic and fails as a drama.

It's amusing to see that I've seen movies like Boot Camp before, from the hippie "Punishment Park" in the 70's to the Olivia Hussey "Turkey Shoot" which blended this genre, amusingly, with "The Most Dangerous Game" this type of material is not exactly original. (And actually, if you want to take it further, movies like "Battle Royale" and of course "The Hunger Games" owe a lot to this as well). Obnoxious, misunderstood kids are taken forcefully away from their home and onto an island, where they try to learn some manners! Fortunately Mila Kunis and Gregory Smith disagree with the whole setup, and try to find a way to escape. Comparing it with other films of the same genre, it's a bit more hard to take, because it takes itself way too seriously for it's own good.

Movies like these don't come around very often. Know I am not saying this movie was incredible because it wasn't. But it is the kinda movie that makes you think about tragedy's that happen in this life. Basically the plot is easy to follow and easily drags you in. Norman Hail ( Peter Stormare ) runs a camp where parents send there kids to him and he tries to steer them straight. You could tell that this wasn't going to be a normal camp for kids. He uses humiliation as a form of torture. I Mainly loved the movie because of the two main characters Mila Kunis and Gregory Smith. Most torture movies the whole plot is everyone is trying to get out of the place where they are being tortured which is why I loved the movie because that wasn't the case for most of the characters. A lot of the characters were starting to believe in Norman Hails brainwashing method.There was no ridiculous stupid sex scenes so don't watch it if that's what you are looking for, it was the one of the most realistic psychological torture stories I have probably watched and that says a lot because I have seen tons of movies.If you are looking for a movie that makes you think about about sadistic stuff that happens in real life then watch this movie. I give it a 6.5 / 10

This is the type of mindless "exposé" that liberals just love! Simplistic message: Tough Love Camp=Bad. Solution=Government regulation. Yes folks, don't trust the parents' judgment about their children. We know that all parents are incompetent to raise their children. Only the loving, compassionate, Big Brother Government really cares about poor spoiled rich kids. Anyone who disagrees must be a Nazi who wants to murder children. Never mind that most of the stupid, worthless kids in this film were heading for an early death anyway, with a spoon up their nose or needle in their arm. But everybody knows that parents have no right to make decisions about their children without government supervision. At first it looked like the tough love camp was just what these kids needed! Until, of course, they had to add the sexual abuse issues and then portray all the camp authorities as sociopathic, religious idiots. After all, we can't have a bunch of selfish, druggie, affluent panty-wastes being treated as if how they behave has consequences, can we? No, lets just let them pollute themselves here at home until they become government liabilities, spending their lives on the ever-expanding government-funded substance abuse merry-go-round. Anything but actually teaching these self-centered, pampered, spoiled brats that life has consequences and responsibilities. OH NO! How horrible! Spending a few years on a tropical island doing chores, swimming in the ocean, playing beach volleyball, and learning something about the tough lessons of life. After all, the military has NEVER molded anyone's character for success in life, have they? Discipline NEVER works, does it? NO! All we really need is group therapy and drug rehab, funded by the government of course. The government will take care of us. When the government gets involved, I just feel so much better, because I know they care and will treat us right. After all, they've proved it time and time again. Haven't they? Yes!