Rock the Boat (2023)
5/10
It takes an hour for the boat
17 August 2023
Warning: Spoilers
Ten years after her family was killed in a tragic car crash, college student Millie Barnes (Parker McKenna) has a bright future and plenty of friends. Or maybe I should have written that she had plenty of friends, as they start dying off one by one. Now, Millie has to figure out who is killing them all and why.

If you watch Tubi Originals, you know Chris Stokes (three movies of The Stepmother, The Assistant, Picture Me Dead) and his usual writing partner, Marques Houston (No Way Out, You're Not Alone). They're back for another thriller that has a lot of I Know What You Did Last Summer to it.

A decade ago, Mille had to deal with losing her parents Eric and Tracy. Sure, she's made a comeback, but those scars run deep. Yet she's now the most popular girl in college and her friends come from rich and powerful families, like her boyfriend Kaleb (Marc John Jeffries), whose father owns the company that she's about to start working for fresh out of school. Her other friends are Adam (Jorden Smooth), Lewis (Paul Toweh), Bree (Asia Harmony), Terri (Taylor Crawford), Timmy (Milo Stokes), Sophia (Zonnique, whose father is T. I. in real life), Channel (Janina Gordillo) and Sommer (Iyana Halley).

Well, you can cross the first four off the list. Adam overdoses on steroids (which rarely happens), Lewis slips and ends up with a broken neck, Bree's heel breaks and she falls off a balcony and Terri, the daughter of Judge Eleanor Smith, is killed in a car crash. Someone starts sending letters to Millie teasing each of these murders, asking if they were accidents.

Can she figure out who the killer is before the two detectives on the case? Will Timmy and Kaleb kill one another before the murderer gets to them? Will it take an entire hour before we even get to the nautical vessel this is titled after? Is there a secret sibling? Will I watch every single Tubi Original?

Of course. Yes. Uh-huh. Yep. Totally.

There are also childhood flashbacks, the fabulous Aunt Carol (Cynthia Brady), a strange woman named Olga (Carnette Jones), our protagonist with a bomb strapped to her and an ending that teases a sequel that knowing Stokes, Houston and Tubi that I feel sure that we will receive.
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