After a misunderstanding leads to a one-sided beatdown and the need for atonement, three friends head out onto the high seas for a little makeup time, only for their mistrust and jealousies to boil over and lead to yet more misunderstandings, only bloodier. Such is the premise of "Harpoon", which makes fairly good use of its basic premise, playing it mostly for dark laughs but still managing to squeeze in a few moments of genuine tensity along the way. The performances from Munro Chambers and Chris Gray as best friends who find themselves warring over the same woman are good, but both are outshined by the woman herself. Not only does Emily Tyra get the best material to work with as her character reacts to revelation after revelation from the increasingly unhinged best friends she's come between, but she also delivers the best performance of the movie in her own right. When she finally starts taking matters into her own hands, it feels like she's earned it. As much as I love Brett Gelman (Murray in "Stranger Things"), however, the movie could have done without his snarky narration, which detracts from what's on screen and is totally unnecessary, except maybe as padding. Pointless narration aside, this was a fun little horror comedy. Nothing special, but not a bad way to kill 82 minutes.
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