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1.0 out of 5 starsOh, my god. Shailene says if for me, what a "cheesy TV Movie"?
Reviewed in the United States on November 27, 2020
To put that reference in the last line of the movie has to mean that the filmmaker knows what a bad movie they made. "Kaaaat. Kaaat Heeeeeeelp me Kaaat" her murdered mother howls from the grave. Like a film school project for people who should have studied accounting. Poorly written, horribly directed, ham-fisted acting, and they probably all thought they were gonna win Oscars. The characters are cartoonish. The dialog is clunky, melodramatic. Oh, I said that already. I'm sorry, I really hated this movie, but like a car wreck can't turn away.
But it has all the right Woke Fundamentalist credentials. The sassy, over weight black girl-friend who Kat used to be just like (but then lost weight and started doing Yoga). The snarky gay buddy who has no character development past "Oh my god, I can't believe we ever lived here." The ambitious black boyfriend who is gonna be a doctor. But don't worry, they don't have any real human features, they are only there so the pretty white girl looks noble and can talk about her feeeelings . . . and, spoiler alert, dad is only a killer because he is ACTUALLY a repress homosexual -- Oh my god! Don't you get it. It is such an original idea. Old white Men are all just repressed gay old white men! What ground breaking work!
Poor Christopher Meloni, what he puts up with to have a film career. "Uh . . . , honey. I have a choice of three scripts. I can play the mean repressed homosexual white guy, I can play the scumbag, cheating white guy, or (and this one is really exciting) I could play the corporate douchebag white guy." Man, we have come so far from the days that black actors got to chose between playing a pimp black man, a mugger black man, a drug dealer black man, or if you were really lucky the magical black man.
Watch it only if you want to play a drinking game and take a shot every time you spot a nugget of woke ideology, or alternatively when an intended emotional note falls dead flat.
