After an opening that neatly skewers the nonsensical worlds of male modelling and content creators, the focus shifts to a cruise for the uber-rich and an exploration of privilege and status featuring the infamous extended centrepiece of dinner during a storm (with copious vomiting) which sees the beginning of all artifice and pretension being stripped away. Dialogue is sharply-written, and there are some delightful and nicely-placed wry visual and verbal observations. Standout performances can be seen from (as expected) Harris Dickinson as the hapless male model and Woody Harrelson as the blasé but increasingly unravelling captain. The politics may be blunt and simplistic at times, and the third act cannot match what comes before, but the film makes its points well enough and with a sound degree of wit and thought.
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