Hardboiled with a perverted feminist streak...

Rating: Null/10 (25 October 2004)

Oh I love when a film champions dirtbags, giving you every reason why you should feel sorry, feel sad for them.
To this films credit it was nuanced and had a couple different interesting levels to it. It was like a car wreck of a life that you couldn't help but stare at, even more so when you think that it was a true story and the plotting and dialog was mostly realistic.
Christina Ricci does a serviceable job and Theron wins the Oscar but I had a really hard time finding anything else good about this film other than the acting. It was more of a rotten look at the underbelly of white trash America than anything else.
I still have a hard time recommending this as entertainment or even as a message film. Hardboiled and shocking with a perverted feminist theme, this film didn't do much for me. Depressing waste of time.