A real B movie!

Rating: 4/10 (19 October 2014)

What makes a "B" movie? And is a B movie still a B movie, if it has "A" performances by first ranked actors? That is the question.
It's hard to review this movie without including spoilers, because it is the end of the movie, indeed the last half of the movie, that is so poorly done. Let the viewer beware. If you don't mind contrived plots, jarringly inconsistent characterizations, and phony denouements, you may indeed like this movie. I even liked it, just like I enjoy some of the trashy B movies I may wander into on the TV at 3 am.
We've all seen these movies. They favor a trick of plot at the end, something you never saw coming, if only because the actions are totally inconsistent with the character they had developed, and duped you into accepting. They favor gratuitous sex and violence, even if totally our of character, and unlikely to succeed in the real world we live in every day. They favor incredible (literally) twists of plot, innocent people being persecuted by bad people, who in the end turn out to be good, and the good people bad, or vice versa, or whatever.
I enjoyed the movie. I'm just sorry I paid 10 bucks to see it in a theater. I could have waited a few years and seen it on TV. At 3 am.