Hey Mea – yeah… she dies. Towards the end of the movie, Uma and Chloe make their way into a garden where they see the lifeless bodies of former Paradise girls ensnarled in the leaves, including Amarna.

Sorry if this comes as terrible news? hehehe. But yeah, she died.

I can overlook laughable plot holes like a distinct lack of security measures in the form of sentry guards and locked doors (I honestly don’t remember seeing even one door that is locked!!?) in the ‘strictly no visitors’ underground area. I can also forgive the clunky exposition which is the replacement girls standing around like over-eager information kiosks just waiting to explain everything to our escaping heroines. And I can definitely go easy on the science or lack of science in the assumption that fingerprints and other biometrics unique to every individual do not exist, so the replacement girls only need some facial surgery and 2 months worth of behavioural training to assume the identity of their originals. Yet all these still pale in comparison with a plot twist too far that is the Milla boss monster reveal. It reminds me of the exobiologist petting the snake alien scene in Prometheus. I mean it was so dumb it broke the entire movie for me, in the same way that Prometheus scene broke the entire Alien franchise for me. Sigh.

But honestly, I wish the writers would’ve let the real Amara find a way to escape and have the movie ending with the real Uma meeting her at he location on the map. Also, I wish they would’ve gave some background on WTF Milla’s character was, some kind of vampire/succubus thing? I got the impression that once the replacements were ready to go back to the originals girls lives, Milla’s character was killing them specifically to somehow drained the “life force” out of them to stay young as she said “at mother’s age, I can’t exactly stop now, who would want me then”. BUT WHY? why go that route with no explanation? She could have just as easily been a greedy, evil woman providing the same service, making replica girls and killing the originals for money. Why the whole vampire/succubus super natural angle, if you’re not going to explain it, or have some way that it actually is plays into the importance of the story?

Honestly, I was a little surprised, but not that much. I thought it was basically like a modern day “Stepford Wives” where they were not killing the girls but turning them into some type of artificially controlled automatons.

One last thing. Did anyone else notice… When the girls were walking through the bamboo grove, it said “ANNA” on one of the bamboo stalks. This was earlier in the movie, long before we learned of the replacements or that Uma’s replacement’s real name was Anna. I was wondering if that was somehow going to be a clue, but it turned out to be pretty meaningless.