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Paul O @pjkeys Aug 30 While the movie attempts several stylistic filming methods to make it stand out, it loses credibility, like any movie, when the plot's unfolding can be picked apart as being unrealistic. The main protagonist is a woman who leads an idyllic suburban life with her family as a loving single mom during her off time, while being a bar owner. For some reason, a mob family has set up shop in BFE where the lady's bar is located, and makes its money shaking down and taking over ownership of such local bars using ruthless violence. Ms. Goody two Shoes is really a former bank robber in a gang made up of her and her two sisters, so in reality she is a secret badass. So when the rural mobsters set sight on her bar, a battle ensues as the mobsters are disposed of. One plot reveal, the son gets murdered in the street of a subdivision, but for some reason the neighbors don't hear the gunfire, and know one seems to care, including the non existent police, that there is dead body in the street. The wooden acting makes it worse, as several attempts at hysterical fear and anger make the calm dialogue even more laughable. A waste of time. See more Boopi H @RT90026120 06/16/2025 corny, unbelievable actioner with not great acting but i loved it. these folks have got to be die hard Tarantino fans as this production smacked of his delightful offerings. those were some dumb as nails thugs. See more 03/03/2023 They sure know how to pick 'em Director Usher Morgan tells a thriller about messing with the wrong queen A young woman played by Elyse Pryce who owns a family bar is targeted by a short-tempered mobster But that turns out to be a mistake when she starts striking back This mobster has no idea what's in store for him and his crew What does it mean what makes people do what they do; that's the root of human psychology A desire to gain pleasure as a need to avoid pain This movie goes on a little longer than it should; the plot should've been different Some of the stylized filters are a bit overblown You'd think this would take place entirely in the bar because this feels very uneven with some jumpy editing Pryce gives a very visceral performance however I just thought this was alright See more 04/20/2021 Another film that I wasn't too keen to watch, as my first thought was "Mmmm....low budget Tarantino". Well, maybe we should remember that Tarantino doesn't "own" this style of movie, and I do feel that the whole story was handled well. It must have been, I've just watched it again. See more 01/17/2020 this movie was agonizing to watch, I held for 25 minutes and had to vacate but based on the editing and effects I could see it was poorly done. The move was as if the director made a group of short clips and edited them together. See more 05/17/2019 it could have been quite a little gem with a little less scmaltz from Usher Morgan. He needs to watch some really good films and drop his mimicry. This effort was a clear rip off of Elmore Leonard's Justfied down to using Dixie Mafia and Michigan in it. If you are going to rip someone off, may as well be the best so that was actually a positive. The issues come in with the lame attempt to copy Frank Millers Sin City graphic novel style at times. Usher isn't sophiscated enought to pull this off (or he was lazy-take your pick). The 3 dames? Really? Usher you were really pretty close but you cheesed this up with that stuff. The two bit mobsters who can only say do you know who I am repeatedly was clever, the first ten time but it did get kind of tiresoem along with the worst acting in the movie. What saved this was Elyse Price who, given some better material might actually show us something. Her brother character's wardrobe may have been the silliest part of the whole movie sae for the silk scarf our mob guy wore. Usher, if you had stole more Elmore, lost the Miller and didn't writie like Uwe Boll on Prozacl and had hired villians who can act you would have had a real movie that would have been 20 times better than this and I actually watched this and didn't hate it despite those major flaws. See more Read all reviews

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