Number Rolled: 24
Movie Name/Year: Cherry
Bomb (2011)
Genre: Action
& Adventure
Length: 82
minutes
Rating: NR
Director: Kyle
Day
Writer: Kyle Day,
Garrett Hargrove
Actors: Julin
Jean, Nick Manning, John Rodriguez, Allen Hackley, Jeremy James Douglas Norton
Cherry Bomb, played by Julin Jean, is a stripper. She’s
attacked in the champagne room by a group of guys one night and learns that the
police don’t see fit to believe her account of what happened. After some aid
from her brother, Brandon (played by John Rodriguez), she vows revenge on the
men who hurt her and escaped justice.
It’s a pretty typical kind of storyline. Girl is hurt. Cops
don’t believe girl. Girl gets angry. Girl arms up. Attackers feel pain. That’s
pretty much the storyline. I’d flesh it out a little bit, but I just can’t. There’s
nothing else to it. It’s like the writer set up a dartboard of everything he
knows about action/adventure films, strippers and women and whatever he hit
with his dart just kind of got thrown in. Apparently, he’s a bad shot, too.
The actors were horrendous, except for John Rodriguez. He
was pretty good. Every other actor, though, I’m going to groan whenever I see
their name credited on a movie I watch. I just know it.
So, if it sucked so badly, why the extra “.5” in the overall
opinion? There are two reasons. First, this was a low budget film that managed
to not seem like it. There were moments that gave up that knowledge, but it
didn’t look like patched together home video, the sound was done well and the
lighting was pretty spot on. Second, there were a few scenes that were highly
entertaining. There weren’t a lot of them, but they were sandwiched between
crap, which means they were more appreciated than they would have been
otherwise.
It’s a short movie, so it’s not something I’ll outright warn
you against, but I certainly wouldn’t suggest it either.
Overall Opinion – 1.5/5
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