Sunday, October 4, 2020

Girls Against Boys (2012)

  Well, I guess they couldn't all be winners.  It didn't help that my first three choices were no longer available (except for money) so even picking this one felt very much like standing in front of my fridge waiting for my standards to lower enough to find something to eat.

Shae (Danielle Panabaker) is assaulted after going out for drinks with a co-worker, Lu (Nicole LaLiberte).  Fortunately (?), Lu is a cop-killing, casually-murdering kind of girl and very quickly sets Shae on the path to vengeance, if not justice.  But when Shae is ready to move on, she discovers Lu isn't so much the let-go type.

Honestly, the biggest crime in this movie is how boring it is.  The first thirty minutes are excruciating and the rest isn't much of an improvement.  Shae is basically a pin-up doll with a gun while Lu falls into the insulting trope of "jealous lesbian."  It's lazy and homophobic.  The writing is lackluster, there are no surprises and no thrills to be had.  Even the deaths are boring and unoriginal.  

This is the stale Pop-Tart of horror films.  You can do better.  But if you're just standing in front of that fridge, it's streaming on Hulu.  Thankfully only for the month of October, then back to obscurity where it belongs.

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