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Looking to jack off to Katee Sackhoff? Sexy Evil Genius ain't the movie for it.
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At a glance:
Shawn Piller's lo-fi black comedy
Sexy Evil Genius (2013) was reportedly completed some two years ago and only found VOD and DVD release through Lionsgate Home Entertainment last week, so do align your expectations accordingly. It does boast an interestin lineup of now lesser seen stars though, in
Michelle Trachtenberg,
Harold Perrineau,
William Baldwin and
Seth Green. The movie is almost all-indoor and most of the proceedings happen in a downtown L.A. bar where a group of strangers meet, on account of their mutual friend Nikki Franklyn (
Katee Sackhoff in the titular role), an unconventionally attractive woman who'd recently done time for murderin her last ex. We get some flashbacks from different characters every now and then, as the night progresses into a full-blown cat-and-mouse mindfuck.
Bad news on the doorstep:
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Scott Lew's dialogue-driven script can sometimes surprise us with several sharp turns, even makin references to great classics like
Double Indemnity (1944), but the guessin game grows tiresome and the material simply couldn't spark much excitement. Despite sufficiently watchable chemistry between the table guests, we aren't allowed much room to invest in them, as all things have to defer to
Katee Sackhoff's central character but she doesn't seem to give much energy to the narrative, though this is through no fault of just her own, especially if you
read this Collider interview about how bloody hard she worked for the role. You'd think she'd be perfect for this crazed femme fatale role but somethin is amiss with the direction and we're left feelin indifferent about the payoff even before it comes. Perhaps they could've put in stronger sex scenes to perk things up a little, since it's already rated R?
Perennial wonderment:
Although he's got a quite a
substantial body of work in various capacities,
Seth Green will always be remembered as that wigga with the goggles who screwed the awkward girl in
Can't Hardly Wait (1998), won't he? I liked him as the Amish guy in
Sex Drive (2008) too but that wigga role will never be topped, I believe.
Reminds me of:
The Perfect Host (2010)
with
David Hyde Pierce but that was nowhere near borin, which is what many would feel about this little release.
Amacam joker, berapa bintang lu mau kasi?
Not particularly sexy, evil or genius, by most accounts. The DVD has quite a lot of cool extras
though, but I wouldn't pay for it if I were you. Go show some love on its
official Facebook fan page though.
★★
Bonus material:
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Goofing around on set.
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At a glance:
Perennial wonderment:
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