derek-a-charette100 Review of Stretch

Stretch (2014)

Refreshing, chaotic, unpredictable, strange, different and a movie with character.

[7/10 · 16 March 2015]

I found Stretch on Netflix while searching for a comedy flick. It certainly had the ingredients to be a funny and entertaining movie when I read the description. The movie starts of sort of slow, giving us a couple quick scenes with David Hasslehoff and Ray Liota. I was intrigued by the way both of these actors, especially Liota appeared in this movie. I will admit that Liota was the reason I gave this movie a chance, because in the beginning I was debating to write this movie off and find another one. Luckily, Liota popped in at the perfect time and gave me a glimmer of hope for the movie. Liota is a phenomenal actor, and certainly not hard up for a few bucks and desperate to get any role in a movie he can; so for those reasons I decided to give the movie a chance. I figured that Stretch couldn't be THAT terrible, because I know Liota would not have wasted his time with a terrible movie. So I kept watching, and I was not let down. Without giving out too much of the details for readers that have not seen it yet, Stretch was not what I was expecting, and I'm certain you will feel the same after watching it. The acting was not bad, the script was decent, and the plot was above average. I was happy to see a fairly new movie that did not force unrealistic and ridiculous events just for the sake of pushing the plot forward. This movie had more of a natural flow to it than the majority of movies that have come out in recent years. I was also happy that I wasn't able to predict what was going to happen. Everything about this movie caught me off guard, and for that I am impressed. Although this movie was not "funny" by any means, I still enjoyed it and got good vibes. There was substance behind this movie. There was intelligence behind the script. This movie was truly unlike any movie I have ever seen. I would not even classify it as any genre to be honest. It would even be impossible to compare to any other movie. With that being said, give Stretch a chance. Don't have any expectations and just take it for what it is, and not what you would want or expect it to be.