Movie Review: Three (2006)
I am a Billy Zane fan, and I am a Kelly Brook fan — both for wildly different reasons. So obviously I had to see this. Neither of them are great actors, of course, but they actually have a surprising amount of chemistry early on in the film. They play a wealthy married couple that gets stranded on an island with a crewman, Manuel (Juan Pablo Di Pace), who’s cursed by his ex-girlfriend.
The movie really didn’t need that supernatural angle at all, since they basically just get shipwrecked, but hey, whatever works.
So a love triangle develops, of course.
Now Billy Zane playing a jealous asshole boyfriend type is proven box office gold, right? And he is essentially playing the same role as he does in Titanic, but something about it really doesn’t work that well. He’s too likable. He does horrible things, but there’s still something so casual and carefree about his performance that he can be hard to hate at times.
This movie really just boils down to Kelly Brook. She has a few sex scenes with both men, on land or sea, and she’s clearly what the movie’s trying to cash in on.
I guess the movie does succeed in that, but that’s also about it. The story is really, really bad. The acting is bad (Brook’s accent is incredibly inconsistent, and the guy playing Manuel is bad), and the dialogue is atrocious.
Rating: 3/10
