A sexy sultry ‘80s set neo-noir that genuinely keeps it together until the third act, where it careens way off the rails.
Buddy (Luke Benward) in need of dough to ensure his newborn gets medical treatment, takes a cash in hand job to fix the fence of Nam vet Walter (Nic Cage) who has a seriously passive aggressive relationship with Lounge singer wife Fancy (KaDee Strickland). As fate (and convenient screenwriting) would have it, a car malfunction and tropical storm, sees Buddy stay the night with the couple, where a horned up Fancy attempts to seduce the studly handyman, while a bitter drunken Walter attempts to coax Buddy into a bit of the ol’ cyanide spousal poisoning.
And let’s not mention the basement shall we…
Driven by the atmospheric, storm battered gothic household locale and a decent performance from the central trio, especially Strickland who is pretty damn sexy as the Cougar Femme Fatale archetype. Hubba Hubba.
But it crucially fails to stick the landing. all of sudden we are meant to show some sort of John Rambo style forgotten veteran sympathy where it CLEARLY isn’t warranted? and that basement reveal seemed really out of left field, Girl Scout cookies aside.
Kelsey Grammer is the other name in the cast, decent here as a Southern Detective.
A sexy sultry ‘80s set neo-noir that genuinely keeps it together until the third act, where it careens way off the rails.
Buddy (Luke Benward) in need of dough to ensure his newborn gets medical treatment, takes a cash in hand job to fix the fence of Nam vet Walter (Nic Cage) who has a seriously passive aggressive relationship with Lounge singer wife Fancy (KaDee Strickland). As fate (and convenient screenwriting) would have it, a car malfunction and tropical storm, sees Buddy stay the night with the couple, where a horned up Fancy attempts to seduce the studly handyman, while a bitter drunken Walter attempts to coax Buddy into a bit of the ol’ cyanide spousal poisoning.
And let’s not mention the basement shall we…
Driven by the atmospheric, storm battered gothic household locale and a decent performance from the central trio, especially Strickland who is pretty damn sexy as the Cougar Femme Fatale archetype. Hubba Hubba.
But it crucially fails to stick the landing. all of sudden we are meant to show some sort of John Rambo style forgotten veteran sympathy where it CLEARLY isn’t warranted? and that basement reveal seemed really out of left field, Girl Scout cookies aside.
Kelsey Grammer is the other name in the cast, decent here as a Southern Detective.
