A newly married man (Kip Pardue) brings his bride (Tara Reid) to a remote island, where he opts to fumble the bag spectacularly by making her his prisoner and turning Tara Reid into a battered woman who must use what little nous her character has to try and escape. "Devil's Pond" takes this basic, kinda stupid premise, sucks all the potential fun out of it and straps us in for what could only very loosely be called a thrill ride, where we watch Reid (who I liked well enough in "Urban Legend") try and fail to play the Nicole Kidman/Julia Roberts role in a movie that seems like a very low-tier version of their cinematic journeys into domestic hell. The plot is predictable, the violence muted and the acting flat as a board. This time next week I'll have probably forgotten I ever watched it.
