Overrated

an ambitious but ultimately ineffective debut endeavor.

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

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Someone has done 3 battered women a favor. The favor has been to kill each of their abusive husbands.The film takes place in a rough neck area of Oregon. It seems to be fashionable there to hit your wife.Our heroine has moved to this town. She is a social worker who killed her brother-in-law. The latter had been beating her sister and ultimately killed her.New in Oregon, she begins to take in battered women but soon becomes the focus of the investigation when three of the women she takes in conveniently have their husbands killed.The suspicions of our heroine as the killer seem to be obvious. There is a vicious police chief in town who takes a dislike to the woman and suspends his deputy, the latter having found love with this woman.With less than a half-hour remaining, the plot resolves itself. It is a surprise ending but we have seen things like this before.