Trashy and Dreary

Rating: 4/10 (26 December 2012)

The town slut wakes up to find herself chained to the radiator of a man who sings the blues. It sounds like a great premise for a comedy, but this is a serious film. Ricci has little to do here except look slutty but she does so quite well. Jackson turns in a solid performance as the man who tries to cleanse her of her sins. It's hard, however, to get past the ridiculousness of the script. Another problem is that the film goes on too long. Once the premise has been established, the film has nowhere to go really, and it begins to drag. The promos for the film try to play up the angle of a luscious, young white woman chained by a black man, but it fails to deliver even as a trashy guilty pleasure.