I really wanted to like this movie. I like Rose Glass, I thought Saint Maude was great and this one was mostly good, but it had such an unbelievably stupid ending that I cannot recommend it to anybody.
Overall the movie felt A LOT like the Jim Thompson story "After Dark, My Sweet". You have the wandering meathead Jackie who rolls into town and gets tied up in the shenanigans of local nogoodnik Lou and her father, Lou. Katy O'Brian stood out here, she was very good. She's not just some Lou Ferrigno type that they hired for the muscles, she has some skill as an actress. The material had her doing silly things, but I can't blame her for script issues. Ed Harris is always great, and it was worth seeing for his crazy skullet alone. Kristin Stewart wasn't bad, wasn't great. She always seems like she'd rather be somewhere else when she's acting.
The big issue I had was not just how ridiculous the ending was, but how it detracted from the strength of Jackie as a character. There was a good moment when she took the job at the gun range and said she doesn't like guns, she'd rather know her own strength. That would have been the PERFECT opportunity to bring that back and they went out of their minds instead. There were some other flaws with the movie, but that ending was just epically bad and I can't remember them.
Overall the movie felt A LOT like the Jim Thompson story "After Dark, My Sweet". You have the wandering meathead Jackie who rolls into town and gets tied up in the shenanigans of local nogoodnik Lou and her father, Lou. Katy O'Brian stood out here, she was very good. She's not just some Lou Ferrigno type that they hired for the muscles, she has some skill as an actress. The material had her doing silly things, but I can't blame her for script issues. Ed Harris is always great, and it was worth seeing for his crazy skullet alone. Kristin Stewart wasn't bad, wasn't great. She always seems like she'd rather be somewhere else when she's acting.
The big issue I had was not just how ridiculous the ending was, but how it detracted from the strength of Jackie as a character. There was a good moment when she took the job at the gun range and said she doesn't like guns, she'd rather know her own strength. That would have been the PERFECT opportunity to bring that back and they went out of their minds instead. There were some other flaws with the movie, but that ending was just epically bad and I can't remember them.