''Survival Island'', also known as ''Three'', is a 2005 erotic thriller survival film written and directed by

Stewart Raffill Stewart Raffill is a British writer and director. Biography Raffill was born in England and grew up near Stratford before immigrating to the US and working in the motion picture industry. His writing and directing work in film and TV spans ...

and starring Billy Zane,

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, and

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Plot

Jack and Jennifer are a wealthy couple who are

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in the

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during

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. One of their crew is the handsome Manuel, who is cursed by his angry ex-girlfriend Maria as he prepares to leave on the yacht. He is clearly bothered and has a difficult time fulfilling requests for the crew and guests. After Captain Richards confronts him, Manuel quits and throws down a rag as he storms out of the

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. The rag lands on a gas flame and causes the entire yacht to catch fire. Captain Richards is unable to control the blaze with a fire extinguisher so they abandon ship. Their lifeboats are capsized by a storm later that night and everyone becomes separated. Washing up on a deserted island, Jennifer is completely alone until she sees the body of Captain Richards in the water. As she attempts to resuscitate him, Manuel appears and also unsuccessfully tries to revive him. They bury his body and under Manuel's guidance, set out to build a hut for shelter and find food. Two days later while fishing near a reef, Manuel finds Jack alive and brings him back to Jennifer and their hut. Although Jack is grateful at first, he eventually suspects Manuel of having desires on his wife and declares the man his enemy, promising to ruin his life once they get off the island. This puts Jennifer in the uncomfortable position of her loyalty to Jack conflicting with the realization that they both need Manuel's help to survive. A proud man, Jack insists that he can provide for them both, but it quickly becomes apparent that he cannot. Jack and Jennifer's relationship starts quickly deteriorating. Jack steals Manuel's goggles to go fishing one day and when Manuel discovers this, he threatens to kill Jack. Jennifer attempts to get him to calm down. As the two exit the water after fighting, Manuel pins Jennifer down and starts to

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her as a way of getting revenge on Jack, but she soon stops resisting and the act becomes

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. Afterwards, Jennifer feels remorse despite having enjoyed the encounter and Manuel confesses his love for her. When Jack returns, Jennifer accidentally hints at him what had happened and he furiously rejects her. While fishing another day, Jack finds a boat on the ocean floor. He drags it to shore and attempts to repair it. That night, Manuel and Jennifer go for a midnight swim as Jack watches them from a distance. As they start having

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, she gives him the idea of stealing the boat while Jack is out fishing so they can get away together from the island. The following morning, they manage to steal the boat and sail, however they do not get far before the boat begins to sink and they realize that Jack's plan all along was for them to take the boat and

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. They are forced to swim back to the island and to Jack, who attacks the now-exhausted Manuel with a spear and kidnaps Jennifer. Manuel rescues her that night but gets wounded in the process and becomes sick. The next day, Jack tracks down the pair and finds them on top of a branch of a tree. He throws one of his spears to a now-weakened Manuel, who loses his balance and falls to the ground. Before Jack could kill him, Jennifer pins Jack to the ground, attempting to kill him with his own knife. Manuel picks up a heavy rock with which to crush Jack but he loses his balance again and falls backward, impaling himself on one of Jack's spears. Simultaneously, Maria performs a

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ceremony and impales Manuel's

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on a spike. One year later, a yachting family drops anchor near the island and explores it, discovering Jennifer asleep in her hut. She, still somewhat distraught over Manuel's death, leaves with them, but does not mention that Jack, who she has been forced to live with and depend on since Manuel's death, is also on the island. Jack, who is fishing, sees her leaving on the yacht and calls out, but Jennifer, who had also stolen his lighter so he could not make any more fires, finally exacts revenge on him by ignoring him and the family inside the boat cannot hear him. Jack is abandoned on the island and his eventual fate is left ambiguous.

Cast

* Billy Zane as Jack *

as Jennifer *

as Manuel * Maria Victoria Di Pace as Maria * Todd Collins as Bill * Gabrielle Jourdan as Gail *

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as Captain Richards * Isabelle Constantini as Maggie Richards

Production

The film was produced during 2003 and was originally set for cinema release under the title ''Three'' in 2004.

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started in April 2004 at

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in the Bahamas and lasted for seven weeks. In 2005, Billy Zane and

unsuccessfully challenged the film's producers to remove Brook's nude scenes from the movie.

Release

Theatrical

''Survival Island'' went on

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on 3 May 2006 in the

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before being released to DVD on 21 August 2006. The cinematic release lasted for just one week in many cinemas.

Home media

''Survival Island'' was released on

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in the

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on 15 August 2006. It was also released theatrically in a number of European countries under its original title, ''Three''. Actors Billy Zane and Kelly Brook met during the course of filming in 2004 and later became engaged. In 2005, Zane and Brook unsuccessfully challenged the film's producers to remove Brook's

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from the movie. However, the eventual DVD release kept these scenes intact.

Reception

Critical response

''Survival Island'' received mostly negative reviews. On

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, the film has an approval rating of based on reviews from critics. ''Three'' as it was known in the UK suffered from poor reviews, gaining a rare one-star rating on the BBC Movies website. Robert Hanks of ''

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'' said " 'Three'' isan unholy amalgam of ''

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'', '' The Blue Lagoon'' and ''

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'' ... At odd moments it rises to risibility, but mostly it is just dull". In a review for ''

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'', Adam Smith described the film as "appalling". Anna Smith of '' Time Out'' criticized the film's tone in her review saying, "the dramatic score and writhing sex scenes imply an erotic thriller, but the camera treats pneumatic Brook like the subject of a cheap porno and the plot bears little resemblance to either genre. As the survivors bicker and allegiances change, it’s hard to fathom their motivation or to glean what allegiances we, the audience, are expected to make". ''

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'' rated it one star out of five, while Patrick Mullen of ''

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'' gave the film a rating of 3/10.

Accolades

Wins *

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: Golden Trailer – Trashiest (2006)

References

External links

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