SIX DAYS, SEVEN NIGHTS

REVIEWED BY ERIN DAMAN

Our rating: 2 out of 5

Because of: sexual content, language

Rated:

I guess I've been spoiled lately by good PG13 movies... An Ideal Husband, The Wedding Planner, etc., which caused me to let my guard down. I was jolted back to the reality of what most PG13 movies are usually like when I watched Six Days, Seven Nights. The previews for it on Armageddon made it look exciting, romantic... even cute. Even the cover makes it look more exciting than it really is. Don't be deceived by the previews! Plot before dissection:

Robin Monroe (Anne Heche)... a businesswoman leading a very hectic life working for a popular magazine... and her boyfriend Frank (Harrison Ford) finally find the time to take a romantic vacation in paradise, on a small resort island off the coast of Tahiti. Thinking she is finally on a peaceful, uninterrupted dream vacation, her plans are spoiled only the day after their arrival with a phone call from her boss. Robin will have to put her vacation on hold for 15 hours to supervise a photo shoot back on the mainland. So she returns to Tahiti the same way her and Frank got to the island -- in a tiny, ancient plane piloted by the gruff cargo pilot, Quinn Harris. But (surprise, surprise) a storm forces them to crash land on a tiny uninhibited island in a plane with a radio system damaged by lighting.  As they struggle to not only survive but find a way to escape the island, things go from bad to worse when they run into a group of dangerous smugglers who have been using the island’s coast as a meeting place.  Will they escape the island before being captured and, undoubtedly, killed by the smugglers?  I’m sure you figured that one out.  

Predictability is the least of this movie’s faults.  It is assumed that Robin and Frank share a room at the resort.  Quinn’s “co-pilot” lacks decent clothing, adding immodesty and later partial nudity to an already hopeless film. Also, while Robin and Quinn are assumed dead, Frank decides to sleep with Quinn’s “co-pilot," adding infidelity, fornication, and sensuality. While Robin and Quinn are stranded, much of their conversation is very crude and inappropriate, of which no examples I care to offer. Robin never seems to have enough clothing on, there is plenty of innuendo, and a few things happen on the island which I choose not to disclose. And then there is the language (and the use of "the finger"). There are 18 misuses of God’s name, often coupled with profanity, one misuse of Jesus’ name, 2 anatomical and 14 scatological profanities, as well as 8 other swear words and one f-word, totaling up at 56 unsavory words or phrases.  There is a dab of violence. 

To be honest, I considered not reviewing this movie because it was such a lousy flick. But I didn’t want people to be tricked into seeing it by the previews like I was. So in a nutshell my opinion of it: don’t waste your time. I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone.  The overall tone of the movie is crude and vulgar.  After I watched it, my mind felt more or less polluted by this piece of trash. The “excitement” was boring, the “romance” could hardly be considered romance, and it certainly wasn’t “cute.”  If you want REAL adventure, danger, and romance, I suggest Shipwrecked or the classic Swiss Family Robinson, which has more romance than the former.  They are both clean, and MUCH more exciting than Six Days, Seven Nights.  I’d avoid it at all costs.

© www.charitysplace.com - all rights reserved.