Written by Luke Barnes
Summary
The rape revenge-sub genre needs to end, or find something interesting to say.
Many people have called this a feminist film, however, to them I say is it? This film does nothing to advance the cause, or add to the conversation, it just shouts out a lot of things other films have already said about gender issues, but hopes that by being the loudest you won’t realise that this film actually has nothing new to say. It is barely knee deep.
None of this is helped by the fact that the characters are barely two dimensional and are written as hollow cliches, acting more as mouth pieces for regurgitation than as characters. The cast have all been talented in other things so I am left to either assume they either couldn’t be bothered here, or the writing wasn’t good enough to induce a good performance.
Moreover, the greatest crime of this film is that it is deeply boring and never really does or says anything that is worthy of getting your attention let alone keeping it.
A final question I have for you all is this, who was this film made for? Who is supposed to like it? Anyone? No one?
Overall, a poorly executed message film that will no doubt be forgotten about by next week.
Pros.
Hudgens has charisma even if her character is a horrendous cliché
Cons.
The message achieves nothing and is regurgitated
The cast are all barely two dimensional
It has awful pacing
It is boring and generic
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