Send Help (2026) TRAILER REVIEW: Rachel McAdams, Dylan O’Brien

The trailer begins with a disheveled and anxious Linda (Rachel McAdams) working on her office computer.

Her boss Bradley (Dylan O’Brien) appeared in front of her, “You are smart. I know that you are great with numbers. But, I just don’t think you got it.”

Linda squinted her eyes.

BTW, can you relate to Linda? Your boss tells you that you are great (not just good) at your job, but they don’t think you’ve ‘got it.’ What the f*** does that mean? In my case, all my corporate failures and successes could at least be backed by numbers. But Bradley’s words seem more personal. More political.

It cuts to Linda inside Bradley’s office. “As an executive, I see no value in you. Does that make sense?”

Linda squinted and closed her eyes, “I’m sorry. What?”

Bradley starts putting golf at the corner of his office. He is very casual and dismissive. He also seems bored. “You know we have the Bangkok Merger coming up. Prove me wrong.”

Linda was about to leave his office. However…

“ — Oh Linda, before you go, I received some complaints about you,” Bradley said.

Linda spun back to face her boss. “Complaints?” she asked.

“Noxious odors,” Bradley said with a slight smirk.

An embarrassed Linda walked away fast. “Okay,” she whispered under her breath.

Behind her, Bradley and a guy with long hair, a necktie, and suspenders begin laughing. He looks like the bastard son of Gordon Gekko. He doesn’t need to wear that. Most of the workers wore a smart casual look. Even Bradley wore a dark navy suit without a tie.

Oh God. I can only feel Linda’s stress and anxiety. Inside her car, tears are about to burst from Linda’s eyes. But instead of crying….

“AAAAAAHHHHHHH!”

Her screams intercut with the sound of a plane flying. In the private plane, Linda sat at the back. Bradley told everyone, “Take a seat…you little bitch! Ha ha ha ha ha ha!”

But then…..

BAAAANNNNNNGGG!

WHOOOOOOOSSSSS!

The side of the plane exploded. Many of their co-workers flew off into the sky. Bradley and Linda are still seated, wearing life vests.

The Screen Turned Black

It cuts to Linda waking up on a beach. Waves splashed on her face. Her hair is a mess. She struggled to walk. She looked around. It cuts to an aerial shot, and she is on a small deserted island. The coast is sandy, but the middle is mountainous and woodlands. She ran towards the body of Bradley lying on the shore. He’s alive, but he has a bad wound on his left leg.

Where are they? Who knows? Their flight is from Los Angeles (I researched) to Bangkok. They could have crashed near America. They could have crashed somewhere in the Pacific. Who knows?

Bradley woke up seeing Linda peeling coconuts or something. “We coast at the land of the living,” Linda jokingly said.

Bradley half-smiled. I’m sure he’s just glad to be alive.

It cuts to Linda cutting a large banana leaf, and then she ties it to a larger dried palm. I think she’s making a roof or a tent. I’m not a survivalist. Maybe I should look into that.

“How long?” Bradley asked.

“You’ve been out?” she replied. “A day and a half.”

She placed the roof leaf over Bradley

“Have you tried making a distress signal? Or a bigger fire?” he told her.

“I was busy trying to keep us alive,” Linda said.

It cuts to her catching a fish with an improvised bamboo spear. She also laid a row of green bamboo and tied something with leaves. She’s trying to make a hut.

“Getting us out of here, that should be your focus,” Bradley told her. “Not being…Suzy homemaker over here.”

Bradley is still acting like the boss, even if he can’t walk, and they are trapped on a desert island.

She towered on top of him. This is in contrast to the scenes earlier. When they were at the office, Linda sat at her desk. She sat on the accent chair in Bradley’s office. Bradley was standing up while dressing her down.

“What did you just say to me?” Linda asked in an annoyed tone.

“Let’s not forget, I’m your boss,” Bradley raised his voice. “You work for me.”

“Were not in the office anymore, Bradley,” Linda told him.

It cuts to the sunset over the vast ocean.

It cuts to Linda and Bradley facing each other, both standing up. Maybe he healed. Or maybe that was a dream sequence.

“No help is coming,” Linda told him. “We just have to accept that this is how things are now.”

The severed head of a boar dropped on the sand. BLOOD splattered all over Bradley’s face. He looked SHOCKED. But then you see Linda with blood all over her face and top. She looks like a serial killer.

“You ever hunt?” a panting Linda asked rhetorically. “I think I like it.”

It cuts to them SMASHING something with large rocks. They looked at each other with fury. Oh sh**. I just realized, during the beginning of the trailer, I thought this would be a regular rom-com, where the employee and the boss become haters-to-lovers. That is NOT what this movie is about.

“You are STUCK with an asshole boss, just like I was,” Linda told him.

This is kinda fun. And now, the roles are reversed. She has the advantage because he can’t walk.

It cuts to her burning a knife in a fire. She then pointed the knife at his face. “Although I’m betting, I am a much nicer boss than you would have been, except for maybe this part,” she pointed the knife closer to his eyes.

Tears ran down Bradley’s eye.

The trailer ends with Linda’s voiceover, “I don’t think we should ever leave. Ha ha ha ha ha!”

A Metaphor for Office Life

BTW, you! Yes YOU! Can you live with your boss on a desert island? Out of the 12 bosses I’ve had, I can only think of 3 to 4 that I could survive with. This movie is a metaphor for working and living with a TERRIBLE BOSS, and YOU BOTH can’t escape.

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