Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Not hard to see why this movie is hardly know and why it never got released globally in cinemas. It's a very mediocre movie in basically every way imaginable and it just isn't that much special in terms of its originality, despite having an impressive cast in it.The movie tries to achieve several things throughout but it hardly succeeds fully in any of them. For a thriller it's too light, for a comedy it's not funny enough and for a drama it's not serious enough. the movie tries very hard to be all those things really, with as a result a movie that you just whether don't know to laugh or to be shocked.Besides it's story isn't very impressive or original. The movie tells its story from the viewpoint of the Nikki Reed character mostly, which makes it odd that we as a viewer never get to know or see what her characters true intentions with the things she does are throughout the movie. Not some very good film-making from the director's and writer's part, which are the same person by the way. The movie is certainly watchable but due that it's also being really average with basically everything it is also easily a movie you can easily do without.This movie would had even been lesser known had it not been for it's impressive cast-list. Actors like Alec Baldwin, Nikki Reed, Jeff Goldblum, Carrie-Anne Moss and Luke Wilson all make appearances in this movie. Alec Baldwin is really an actor who gets better with the years and also seems to benefit from the fact that he is getting older. In the beginning of his career he was still being looked upon as the baby-faced pretty boy from the Baldwin family but now he more shows what his qualities truly are. It also was good to see Jeff Goldblum acting again, since I hadn't seen him in anything recently. His particular acting style always remains a pleasure to watch.Watchable enough little movie but just nothing too special really.6/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/

Honestly, this is one of the worst movies I have seen in a long time, but at least I saw it on DVD and not in the theater, so I am only out a couple of bucks. Clearly, Nikki Reed cannot act. She is not Drew Barrymore in "Poison Ivy." She is not Mena Suvari in "American Beauty." There is nothing special enough about her or her character to explain why adult male characters portrayed by Alec Baldwin & Jeff Goldblum covet her enough to commit acts of violence and break the law. She is neither hot nor sexy enough to carry this movie, despite the A-listers who co-star. Too bad. The editing is very television-like, very "movie of the week." The movie does not "play" like a feature film, and I hope Goldblum and Baldwin are deeply embarrassed.

There are some movies that are bad, and there are other movies that are just so horrible that it makes me want to kill myself. This movie made it to my list along with Rosemary's Baby. First of all, could they have chosen an uglier girl? Well, fine, she wasn't hideous, and she looks decent in real-life pictures, but the girl for this part was supposed to be beautiful. She looked liked a trashy whore. Baaad make-up. And what was up with the valedictorian part? I couldn't hear how she got that. She said she was a straight-C student? What, did she kill every student with a higher GPA? And come on!! The beating in the prison! He attacked the guard, yeah, but it didn't seem like he was still fighting after he fell on the ground. What lesson is this supposed to teach us? What was the purpose of this movie? Well, I should have known. Any movie not shown in movie theaters is bound to be disappointing. What a waste of my time. I'm now 2 hours older, a bit dumber, and a lot angrier.

Contains spoilers.......................Nikki Reed, who was so great in "Thirteen" as the femme fatale corrupting Evan Rachel Wood, is even better as the totally twisted Mini who takes delight in doing anything to get what she wants. In this case, it's her dear old stepdad Martin (played to the hilt by the always amazing Alec Baldwin). Mommy Dearest (Carrie-Ann Moss in a terrific turn)is a drunk named Diane who only had Mini to squeeze eighteen years of child support out of a producer, who died a year after Mini's birth. The dynamic duo of Martin and Mini want Diane out of the picture, so they hatch a plan to drive her crazy so Martin can ship her off to the nut house and shack up with Mini. When their half-baked plan goes awry when Diane overdoses on pills, they decide to finish her off by making it look like she committed suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning with her Jag running in the garage. What's a little murder between lovers? After Diane's death, the cat and mouse games begin-with Martin as the mouse and an unknown blackmailer as the cat. Martin's world begins to unravel as he tries to keep up the appearance of being just Mini's father. The pace is fast and furious, and you can't wait to see what Mini has up her sleeve next. She's not a bad girl, just misunderstood-and she makes Dede from "The Opposite of Sex" look like a girl scout.Jeff Goldblum gives an awesome performance as a sleazy TV producer who had Diane at one time, and now has his sights set on bagging Mini. He's a lecher, but a likable one at that. Owen Wilson is perfect as a hard-nosed detective who is trying to prove that Diane's death was not a suicide, and Mini has him wrapped around her finger-or so she hopes.It's a dark comedy about a girl gone wild, and it's worth the ride. My vote is 9 out of 10.