Retreat is a disappointing movie about a couple and a wounded soldier they found and take to their cottage on a remote, forsaken island. The soldier tells them that a contagious disease spread out in the rest of the world, killing everyone, and that they need to barricade the cottage and stay in it to be safe.
The tension between the couple and the soldier steadily increases, since they start to have serious doubts about his story and the disease. They want to leave but he doesn't let them. From then on they try to fight him to get free.
In the end you find out that he actually told a half-truth. He was sick, but the disease was within him. He wanted to keep them in the house to avoid it from spreading more. After the husband got the lethal disease and started dying his wife kills the soldier and then is killed by the army that has finally found the location of their missing soldier, who they used as a guinea pig.
The movie leaves a bitter aftertaste and the conclusion that you just wasted a lot of time. There are barely any good moments and the actions they perform are not conclusive most of the time. For example: The wive would play all tough and fight the soldier to the death sometimes while fall down crying like a baby in other occasions.
It's like she couldn't decide which role she wanted to play and I got that impression from the soldier a few times as well. Anyway... as long as you don't want to see a movie about 3 people fighting at each other in the most pitiful way, do yourself a favour and avoid Retreat. 3/10
The tension between the couple and the soldier steadily increases, since they start to have serious doubts about his story and the disease. They want to leave but he doesn't let them. From then on they try to fight him to get free.
In the end you find out that he actually told a half-truth. He was sick, but the disease was within him. He wanted to keep them in the house to avoid it from spreading more. After the husband got the lethal disease and started dying his wife kills the soldier and then is killed by the army that has finally found the location of their missing soldier, who they used as a guinea pig.
The movie leaves a bitter aftertaste and the conclusion that you just wasted a lot of time. There are barely any good moments and the actions they perform are not conclusive most of the time. For example: The wive would play all tough and fight the soldier to the death sometimes while fall down crying like a baby in other occasions.
It's like she couldn't decide which role she wanted to play and I got that impression from the soldier a few times as well. Anyway... as long as you don't want to see a movie about 3 people fighting at each other in the most pitiful way, do yourself a favour and avoid Retreat. 3/10