Despite the fantastic cast this movie felt amateurish from start to end. The first mistake was the casting of the lead. She isn't bad or anything like that - I just think that the bar was set so high in other movies by the likes of Alecia Silverstone and others that it just didn't feel real. If you're expecting a 17 year old to have the cunning and bravery of a woman twice that age the actress better be able to pull it off. I think the second mistake was not knowing exactly what it was trying to be. Is it a crime drama? A thriller? A black comedy? In reality it was not convincing enough to fit into any of those categories so - coupled with the deficiencies of the lead actress - it felt more like an after-school movie. I think it may have been better served to try to become something similar to Wild Things but it didn't come close to that level of quality. I could swear that in some scenes Alec Baldwin was just mailing it in. It's unfortunate that a movie with the likes of Moss, Baldwin and Goldblum had such a lousy script.
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Review by IHateBadMovies.comVIP 8BlockedParent2021-03-14T20:54:25Z
Despite the fantastic cast this movie felt amateurish from start to end. The first mistake was the casting of the lead. She isn't bad or anything like that - I just think that the bar was set so high in other movies by the likes of Alecia Silverstone and others that it just didn't feel real. If you're expecting a 17 year old to have the cunning and bravery of a woman twice that age the actress better be able to pull it off. I think the second mistake was not knowing exactly what it was trying to be. Is it a crime drama? A thriller? A black comedy? In reality it was not convincing enough to fit into any of those categories so - coupled with the deficiencies of the lead actress - it felt more like an after-school movie. I think it may have been better served to try to become something similar to Wild Things but it didn't come close to that level of quality. I could swear that in some scenes Alec Baldwin was just mailing it in. It's unfortunate that a movie with the likes of Moss, Baldwin and Goldblum had such a lousy script.
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