Have no idea why this is getting a rating of only 5, it describes what the movie is and then delivers exactly that!! Its a really good movie it's not going to get an oscar only boring overrated movies do that, it does exactly what a movie is supposed to do, it entertains you!!!! Hats off to the lead actress she does a great job and the story keeps you engaged from the get go and has a great ending!!.......will watch it again!!!

The early parts of 'Sweetheart' reminded me a lot of 'Castaway' and it made me appreciate 'Castaway' a lot more than I ever did before. It's extremely hard to make a movie entertaining when you have only one character and the only plot device is your character trying to survive. 'Castaway' was lucky enough to have the extremely watchable Tom Hanks in the lead role - I could watch that man paint a house and probably enjoy it. 'Sweetheart' has Kiersey Clemons, who while obviously not on the level of Hanks, did a commendable job of keeping the movie watchable and pushing it through to the next stage.

This is a very dark film. A lot of scenes take place at night and it can be quite difficult to make out exactly what is going on a lot of the time. Also the film is very short. Coming in at just 82 minutes, they obviously didn't want to push things with what can be quite a slowly paced film at times.

If you're not enjoying the beginning of 'Sweetheart' I would suggest you push through it. The film does get better as it goes along. As some more characters come into the mix and we get more of a view of the monster - a very unique monster that I quite liked the design of - things certainly become a little more enjoyable. I was a little let down by the ending. I would've liked to see a little more creativity used, but that's not a major. I enjoyed 'Sweetheart' without ever really loving it. Worth a look, but don't go in with your expectations too high.

I liked it. Especially the first half of the movie, where we very gradually get more and more revealed of the monster worked great for me, the tension is effectively built-up and together with main character Jenn (Kiersey Clemons) we experience some pretty scary moments. As always in monster movies it's a bit of a risk to at last bring the monster in full sight and here it's not different, it does detract some of it's menacing effect.

I also liked the way in which we seem to be planted right in the middle of the story: what exactly happened to make Jenn wash ashore on this island stays for the biggest part in the dark and even when two of her friends later-on also wash ashore in a dinghy it's not really cleared-up. It adds to the creepy atmosphere, as does the few innuendo's concerning bloodstains in the dinghy and the questionable parts that these two friends seem to have had in that. To me it didn't really get any clearer, but maybe I missed or didn't understand an intended clarification in the end. Clemons by the way does a great job, carrying the movie for the biggest part on her own.

Like many reviewers here I had some doubts as to the logic of things. Especially the apparent but totally unfounded assumption that the creature was solitary kept amazing me, but lucky for Jenn the writers assumed the same. And Jenn's ability to survive the many attacks of the creature was just as amazing.

Anyway, a good well-acted and genuinely scary movie.