MierdaDeToro Review of While She Was Out

While She Was Out (2008)

Ms. Basinger Must Be Nostalgic For The 80s

[6/10 · 16 October 2009]

Here's yet another cat-and-mouse vigilante movie that would make the Cliché Police proud. A despondent housewife with an abusive husband runs to the mall for wrapping paper and is accosted by a conveniently ethnic variegated gang of apparently inexperienced thugs after she leaves a note on their car regarding their parking skills. Throughout the movie she manages to kill all 4 of these delinquents with the contents of her Red Toolbox Of Death. The stupidity and general implausibility of these thugs places their guesstimated ages at about 17. As predicted, she spends most of the movie running, running, and then running some more (in a trench coat, mind you), that, at one point, I felt like I was watching The Warriors. What I found quite amusing was the fact that, during the melee, she finds time to stop and take a leak (hey, even the pursued gotta go sometime). That's something you don't normally see in films of this ilk, as it adds a touch of humaneness (I mean, Harrison Ford never stopped to pee in The Fugitive. I'm sure by the end of the film, his bladder was ready to burst). By the end, the thugs are dead and she returns home as if nothing happened. Then, to add insult to injury, the husband, completely unaware of the events that had transpired, had the nerve to ask, "So what'd you buy me at the mall?" Overall, this would have been a great movie...if it was still 1986. By today's standards, what with our New Millennium Me! Me! Me! Generation, this movie falls a bit short in comparison to the CG-reliant films of late. However, if you're in the mood for a completely ridiculous, yet somewhat entertaining film, this may be for you...