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Gold Digger
BandSAboutMovies7 March 2024
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Imani (Shatara Curry) has a boyfriend she's putting through college while she works a job and is in school herself. After giving everything to her man, she feels like he doesn't care, so after advice from her girlfriends - who are all getting abortions at the same time from the same doctor - she gets rid of him and goes to the club, where she meets Flip (Esteban Lastra) who takes her away for the weekend.

The problem is one of his friends watches her ex grab her behind and they assume she's a gold digger. She's drugged and assaulted several times, including after they leave by a hotel worker who she follows and murders. She finds herself hunting down all of the men who raped her before realizing that she may never run out of victims.

This is a movie that somehow combines live performances of spoken word with an abortion and a castration. It's intense and at the same time quite cheap in the best possible sense of the word, feeling real and messy and I love that. Directed by Roderick Giles and written by Jeff Carroll (Holla If I Kill You), it's in no way perfect but who needs that? It's instead a film that looks at the war between the sexes and responds with bullets to the head and knives to dicks.
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2/10
Dismal dud
Woodyanders24 January 2013
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Imani (an extremely irritating and unappealing performance by Shantara Curry) has her life turned upside down after she gets fired from her job. Imani attempts to rectify the situation by hooking up with a well-off guy. After she gets brutally victimized by the man and his pals, Imani decides to become a vigilante who takes on the whole misogynistic system that labels her a gold digger. Sound good? Well, it just ain't. This hopelessly cruddy clinker strikes out something rotten in every possible way: The plodding (non)direction by Roderick Giles, a meandering narrative, the clumsily staged murder set pieces, the tedious'n'talky script by Jeff Carroll, the painfully sluggish pace, the plain cinematography that gives the picture a pedestrian look, the headache-inducing hip-hop soundtrack, a certain pervasive dullness that sucks all the fun and energy out of the movie, the uniformly obnoxious and insufferable characters, and the horribly affected wannabe cool'n'happening posturing "street" attitude that's annoying to the ninth degree all make this lousy loser a total chore to sit through. Worst of all, the main female lead is so grating and off-putting that one quite simply doesn't care at all about her one woman crusade against oppressive male swine. A complete stinker.
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