Put one woman and three men on a remote island and there's bound to be trouble, although quite how much discord the quartet are plunged into in this dark farce is spectacularly extreme.
Enter, in a rowing boat, Nathalie's tired and emotional ex-lover Kent (Billy Zane), ranting and raving but beautifully dressed in white linen. From this point, the country house thriller genre and Hitchcock's The Trouble With Harry spring to mind as a body, fateful coincidences and misunderstandings create a domino effect of vaguely comic disaster.
First time director Wilson has a capital spewer of sarcastic quips in Keitel, and a fine beleaguered heroine in Diaz, but the slowness with which the confusion develops makes the film unfold like a stage play, except with better scenery and lots of water, as it veers annoyingly between suspense and full-tilt farce without any truly macabre wit.