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It's complicated... I really like the directing, acting and writing but, there are issues with the way it's shot that I just can't deny. As much as I love the storytelling and the fantastic performance but, there are also certain scenes that didn't need to exist.
Taco Johnson
This film, Red Riding Hood, was one of the best rental choices I ever made: when I told the manager of the video rental store what I thought about it, she then offered to give me another rental for free.This film is about a little girl - as played by Ken Shamrock - who, in cahoots with her evil mutant dog monster pet - also played by Ken Shamrock - go around administering their interpretation of "justice." For example, the only appropriate response to the crime of stealing an $8 bottle of wine is to stab the thief! Right through the spine, the heart, the sternum and the hand (over the sternum - possibly the "actress" having a heart attack that she was in a movie this bad). Another example, as punishment for renting this terrible movie, you are forced to listen to boring, endless rants and painful camera shifts around Miss Unibrow, the nickname that my roommates and I gave to Mr. Shamrock's character.I distinctly remember that I specifically did not return this movie to the video store - I burned it down, shattered the DVD, and then hid it all across the city in which I live. If you want to lose friends or kill a relative with a weak heart, rent this one. It's for you.
thatgurl16
If you were looking for the animated children's movie with Joey Fatone, this is not it.The only way you could call this movie good is if you were looking for a horribly low-budget joke. While it may remind some of Donnie Darko, the resemblance ends at the imaginary friend with a white mask. The acting is awful, especially that of the little girl, and the effects are exceptionally fake.I suggest watching the movie on 2x speed. That way you only waste 45 minutes of your life instead of 90. And the high pitched, quick dialogue makes it much funnier.
DirtyGrainius
I would never rate this as the worst movie of all time. That is doing a disservice to truly horrible movies everywhere, and we don't wanna do that. Neither would I call it one of the best ever, or fantastic, or awesome, as some have described it. That would just be discrediting myself, my induce some form of self-hatred. And lastly, I would choose not call it the most mediocre of films, because we have a much higher standard and benchmark for our made-for-TV movies. It's a sad little film that hovers and swims around the bottom of the barrel, lacking the true substance to pridefully sink to the bottom. In this case, it's just easier to point out faults, because if I had to comment on positive points, I wouldn't be able to complete 10% of the ten text line quota for comments. Everyone got their seat-belts on? Let's go.The cinematog. isn't utterly deplorable, and they sometimes can make the 8mm look half decent and not so "soap-opera-ishy", but other times it likes my Grandfathers hand-held tanning machine video, like the beginning of the show 'Wonder Years'. Okay, sorry, it's never that good. Really bad mixing in the beginning.music to loud, and the speech levels are not constant, but they do balance out somewhat over the film and you won't miss any dialog after the 15 minute mark. At least not in dolby surround. The bigger problems arise from poor and inappropriate uses of music to set moods. The music changes from really childish renditions of some Luis Prima type music to crappy Hip-Hop beats and baselines, and then back again. When a film does not have a big budget, and you can't afford royalty fees, unless you know some really good musicians that'll play for free, don't rely on music as a major device for anything.This is one of the few movies where you can see extras and people on the street smiling at the camera in some of the earlier scenes. I didn't think the grandmother(Kathleen Archibald) did a bad job at all. I actually feel that any actor who was in a scene with Jenny, (Susanna Satta) that didn't puke or laugh, should get an honorary Oscar and at least a purple heart. The lead in this movie gives us what is easily one of the worst performances by any actor/actress, anywhere, EVER. You will feel like Ed Wood was reincarnated into his ideal of form: The female love-child of Valerie Bertnelli and Bert from Sesame Street. Whether its her eyebrow that a cyclops would just die for, or her hammy fourth grade caliber recitals of Don Quixote(and all her lines for that matter); You will want to take an orbital sander to her forehead, and you will WANT HER TO DIE. The scariest part of this movie is realizing that some director, casting director, or producer put her in a film that we may all be forced to see one day. This is like the Salvation Army going around to everyone's house and giving out copies of the video tape from 'The Ring/Ringu'. Someone said that she certainly didn't help her career, but also didn't hamper it. If she gets serious work in the future, thats like a girl from your graduating class performing a 'Donkey-Show' at prom, and then becoming president of the United States. An honest to goodness travesty. These B-movies all have stage actors and that does not translate well in front of a camera. On stage you have to ham it up and over do it so you can involve people in the back of the theatre. On film, it just makes you hope that you rented a 'Scanners' sequel by accident and the actors head will just start explode. The movie tries to pay homage to other horror films like 'Misery' and 'An American Werewolf in London', but it seems contrived. Which it is. I mean come on, her father got smoked by a 15 year-old girl with a beretta in the start, and Jenny lived in that same area. Who would be afraid of her with knives and baseball bats if they live in a neighborhood where the street kids have "gats"?There are some cool death scenes, but as another commenter said, I think the brilliance in this movie may just be by accident.The most amazing thing about this movie is that when you see the fantastic ending, and the credits roll, you will be astonished that you didn't chew through your own wrists or saw off your leg with a pizza box, just to stop the torture.In closing, this is a broken movie. A really good plot opportunity and what was probably an very decent script get butchered and turned into some very spammish type product. Next time I'll make sure that when I rent a movie called 'Red Riding Hood', it is in fact about an Irish hooker in the Ghetto.Oh yah, for all the people that think this movies stinks, don't bother worrying about people that say you just didn't get. They are just destroying there own credibility because it is trash. And we do get it; we got it many times before, when it was done much better in so many other films it's to hard to name. It wasn't original, or artsy. If wanna see a GREAT take on Lil Red Riding Hood, and wolfs too, check out the film 'The Company of Wolves', and see what a good movie should be. Thank you, and good nite.....
doc_hartman
I can certainly see the point of people ripping on this film. Susanna Satta doesn't set herself up for future stardom but she certainly doesn't hurt her career. The writers had something in mind here and my guess is the director screwed it up. There are some ridiculous parts to the film, but taken in the context of a twelve-year-old girl's mind, they actually make sense.Don't get me wrong, I'm not going to give too much credit to the filmmakers because a lot of the good elements of the film probably happened on accident.I didn't feel like I wasted my money renting this, but I probably would rent it with a bunch of friends over.
