Nerds That Geek Movie Review: ‘Awaken’

Written by Scott Edwards

How far would you go to ensure the perfect life for your child? I would like to think that I would give my kid everything he or she needs to move on in life and meet as little resistance as possible. I am all for kids learning the hard way as well, as long as it does not involve broken bones or health issues, but sometimes they will need to encounter those as well. Setting up your child for success could be the greatest thing you can do as a parent. It is important to protect them from some of the craziness of the outside world, but if you keep covering their eyes when they get older, they will not have a clue of what they should do when you let them go out on their own.
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Billie Kope wakes up on a beach, not knowing what happened the night before. Getting off of the beach and looking for shelter, she runs into a young woman that is running for her life. Not being able to find out what the girl is running from, Billie sees several other people doing the same thing. Running away from something with the crowd, Billie needs to find out what is happening around her and where she is. Being taken back to the survivor’s camp, she is ready to ask the hard questions, but the camp’s leader Quentin wants to know her story first.

Keeping quiet about what she was really doing in Mexico to start with, Billie hears that everyone else was at a bar the night before they were brought to the island that they are now trapped on. Trying to get more information about what is really happening, Billie strikes out, but she is still determined to finish her quest of finding her missing sister. Walking on the beach with her new friend Nick, the two run into another survivor dressed in camo who appears to be a member of the military. Stitch was Special Forces for the British and is willing to help with whatever the plan is to get off of the island. The three are able to build a raft and start out on the open sea to the island they have seen in the distance. Being advised against this by Quentin, the group makes it and finds a small village inland, but when they try to get help from anyone that will listen, the hunters from their old island show up and take them back to their new home.

Not understanding what is really happening Billie tries to get more information once again and when finding out that everyone on the island had recently been to the doctor before they arrived, she is starting to put the facts together. Rich has developed a harvesting station on the island and only caters to top end clients that will pay a premium for his captive’s untarnished goods. With his main man Sarge running the hunts, he has little to worry about, but when receiving word that his new client is on her way to the island, he starts to worry. Billie, Nick and Stitch have a plan of escaping the island and are able to locate a boat that was not guarded to get themselves back home, but Billie will not leave the islands until she finds out what happened to her sister and gets the other survivors to safety.  

I don’t know what to compare this movie to, the story line seems sort of familiar, but there is enough action to make you forget what you were trying to match this movie up against. I really enjoyed this one, mainly because the cast seemed to bring the story to life. I liked the idea of picking out your donors and hunting them down when it comes time to impress your next client, since this may be a growth opportunity at some point. Billie was just amazing in this movie and it is difficult to find anything wrong with her, much less her story line. Stitch was a big surprise, I did not know what to expect out of him when the fighting started and I don’t want to give anything away about his growth, but he did deliver in a big way.  Well, it just goes to show that if you go to Mexico, be careful because people are always looking for something from you. Stay Scared.

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