Waste of time

A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Lifetime Movie inspired by the 2012 Steubenville High School rape case. Cheerleader Vega attempts suicide by self-immolation, setting into motion events that could make the community's beloved football team accountable for a very serious crime. Very dramatic for the better. Still, way too cookie-cutter in terms of structure, and the story unravels more like a mystery/thriller than a drama with something important to say. There's also the need to explain too much, indicating an underestimation of the viewer. Khandi Alexander is memorable as Detective Jodi Miller. Buckner's first role in seven years. Good if you have nothing better to do.**½ (out of four)

Forever predictable film where high school jocks go wild after a game and gang rape a high school cheerleader who had just broken up with her boyfriend.The girl was very much drunk when the crime was committed so who in heaven's name is going to believe her?The girl's widowed father seems to be sedate during this whole affair until there is definite proof of what has occurred.I know that we have technology and blogs to show what is occurring, and yet more and more of these tapes keep appearing throughout the film.Film proves that guys can't get whatever they want and that coincidentally the high school coach's sister is investigating the case and will not give her brother any slack for essentially claiming that young guys shall be young guys.

Although I generally do not sympathize with those who get too drunk to remember events, "The Assault" greatly succeeds in driving home the all-too-realistic point that there are individuals who take very unfair advantage of such vulnerabilities, use it for personal gain while going way out of line, and then scapegoat-make to deflect blame.In a perfect world, no one would get so drunk. On the other hand, society has its share of menaces and extremely bad influences regardless of states of intoxication involved. This portrayal is frighteningly accurate.With a decent actress portraying the main character, a convincing policewoman determined to bring the wrong-doers to justice, and a no-nonsense father rightfully willing to stick up for his daughter, "The Assault" is genuinely interesting, suspenseful, and cautiously entertaining from start to finish.

This was one of the funniest films I've seen in a while. It had everything one would expect from and love about a Lifetime movie: lead actors who can barely emote, terrible dialogue that oftentimes makes no sense, a heavy handed message that they hit you with harder than a football player hits his wife, homoerotic and incestuous undertones, misunderstandings of technological innovations, and I could go on and on about the great features of this film. It starts with the lead character (let's call her Cheerleader, who can remember the names of these people?) setting herself on fire at a football game and it just gets better from there. At the hospital the doctor tells us she was "sexually assaulted" which we can all tell means she was brutally gangraped by the whole football team. Eventually Cheerleader becomes BFFs BleachBlondDyke and they start sleeping together and they work with HeroicBlackPolicewoman to solve the case and everybody lives happily ever after. And it ended with a blatant lie of a statistic which is always fun.