Awaken MPAA Rating: R Entertainment: +3 Content: -2

Jason London (Dazed and Confused) Daryl Hannah (Kill Bill movie series), Vinnie Jones (Snatch, Galavant), Edward Furlong (Terminator 2), Natalie Burn (The Expendables 3), Robert Davi (Die Hard), Michael Paré (Lincoln Lawyer). Available on DVD 7/7/15.

FILM SYNOPSIS: A group of young adults wake up on a deserted tropical island in this suspenseful thriller about black markets and body parts. Billie, a skilled martial arts expert, had been searching for her missing sister, Rina, when she was attacked and dumped on an island. She finds others like her…fit healthy adults in the prime of life, with no idea why they’ve been kidnapped, then let go, only to be hunted down like animals. Billie searches for a way off the island and finds the horrifying answers to some of her questions… a human organ harvesting operation that picks and chooses from the strongest and most fit survivors.

PREVIEW REVIEW: It’s a well-made survival actioneer containing elements of Condemned, Raze, Hostel and Turistas, with Natalie Burn as a believable martial arts heroine and lots of what you come to come to expect from this genre. Perhaps a bit too much blood flowing and neck cracking, and just enough profanity to make sure you understand that this is not a religious picture, but it is an entertaining action thriller much like those that played in drive-ins a couple of decades ago.

Preview Reviewer: Phil Boatwright
Distributor: Arc Entertainment