Waste of time

Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Mini (Nikki Reed) is bored with her life. Her mother Diane (Carrie-Anne Moss) is a boozing gold-digger. Her latest catch is her stepfather Martin (Alec Baldwin). Mini is always looking for challenging "Firsts" and joins an escort service. Her client turns out to be her stepfather Martin. They begin a secret affair behind her mother's back and then scheme to get rid of her.This tries to be a black comedy. It tries and tries but can't quite get there. The writing has nothing new and lacks funny jokes. The biggest problem may be Nikki Reed. She looks sexy in skimpy outfits but doesn't excel in comedic roles. She's better as the femme fatale. The movie is not quite dark enough to push the envelop of black comedies. This is all very familiar and simply less than good.

With Alec Baldwin, Jeff Goldblum, and Luke Wilson on board, this should have been a far better film. Luke Wilson's character comes across as a "Columbo" clone, with his bumbling questions. Alec Baldwin must have simply been on an ego trip, pairing up with Nikki Reed, while Jeff Goldblum acts like he is in a completely different picture. Parts of the movie having to do with the demise of Reed's Mother, Carrie-Anne Moss, border on sadism, and seem highly unlikely. What you wind up with is a failed black comedy, along with a failed attempt at duplicating an episode of "Columbo", with zero likable characters. Not a total disaster, but not recommended either. - MERK

Not hard to see why this movie is hardly know and why it never got released globally in cinemas. It's a very mediocre movie in basically every way imaginable and it just isn't that much special in terms of its originality, despite having an impressive cast in it.The movie tries to achieve several things throughout but it hardly succeeds fully in any of them. For a thriller it's too light, for a comedy it's not funny enough and for a drama it's not serious enough. the movie tries very hard to be all those things really, with as a result a movie that you just whether don't know to laugh or to be shocked.Besides it's story isn't very impressive or original. The movie tells its story from the viewpoint of the Nikki Reed character mostly, which makes it odd that we as a viewer never get to know or see what her characters true intentions with the things she does are throughout the movie. Not some very good film-making from the director's and writer's part, which are the same person by the way. The movie is certainly watchable but due that it's also being really average with basically everything it is also easily a movie you can easily do without.This movie would had even been lesser known had it not been for it's impressive cast-list. Actors like Alec Baldwin, Nikki Reed, Jeff Goldblum, Carrie-Anne Moss and Luke Wilson all make appearances in this movie. Alec Baldwin is really an actor who gets better with the years and also seems to benefit from the fact that he is getting older. In the beginning of his career he was still being looked upon as the baby-faced pretty boy from the Baldwin family but now he more shows what his qualities truly are. It also was good to see Jeff Goldblum acting again, since I hadn't seen him in anything recently. His particular acting style always remains a pleasure to watch.Watchable enough little movie but just nothing too special really.6/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/

Contains spoilers.......................Nikki Reed, who was so great in "Thirteen" as the femme fatale corrupting Evan Rachel Wood, is even better as the totally twisted Mini who takes delight in doing anything to get what she wants. In this case, it's her dear old stepdad Martin (played to the hilt by the always amazing Alec Baldwin). Mommy Dearest (Carrie-Ann Moss in a terrific turn)is a drunk named Diane who only had Mini to squeeze eighteen years of child support out of a producer, who died a year after Mini's birth. The dynamic duo of Martin and Mini want Diane out of the picture, so they hatch a plan to drive her crazy so Martin can ship her off to the nut house and shack up with Mini. When their half-baked plan goes awry when Diane overdoses on pills, they decide to finish her off by making it look like she committed suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning with her Jag running in the garage. What's a little murder between lovers? After Diane's death, the cat and mouse games begin-with Martin as the mouse and an unknown blackmailer as the cat. Martin's world begins to unravel as he tries to keep up the appearance of being just Mini's father. The pace is fast and furious, and you can't wait to see what Mini has up her sleeve next. She's not a bad girl, just misunderstood-and she makes Dede from "The Opposite of Sex" look like a girl scout.Jeff Goldblum gives an awesome performance as a sleazy TV producer who had Diane at one time, and now has his sights set on bagging Mini. He's a lecher, but a likable one at that. Owen Wilson is perfect as a hard-nosed detective who is trying to prove that Diane's death was not a suicide, and Mini has him wrapped around her finger-or so she hopes.It's a dark comedy about a girl gone wild, and it's worth the ride. My vote is 9 out of 10.