Sexy Evil Genius (2013)

Number Rolled: 11

Movie Name/Year: Sexy Evil Genius (2013)

Genre: Thriller

Length: 90 minutes

Rating: R

Affiliated Companies: Launchpad Productions, Piller/Segan/Shepherd, Sobini Films, Lionsgate

Executive Producer: Nellie Nugiel, G. Scott Paterson, Schott Shepherd, Cami Winikoff

Director: Shawn Piller

Writer: Scott Lew

Actors: Katee Sackoff, Michelle Trachtenberg, Anthony Michael Hall, Seth Green, Harold Perrineau, William Baldwin, Nora Kirkpatrick

Brought together by their ex-lover, Nikki, three people wait for their past girlfriend to show up. Sharing drinks and tales about their torrid relationships, they find that none of them have a clue as to why they were summoned. When Nikki finally arrives with her current lawyer beau, they think they’ve finally figured it out, until the dramatic woman opens her mouth.

This movie should have gotten a lot more attention when it came out. It was incredible. I thought the storyline was intense; not over thought, but not too simple. For most of the movie it felt like getting to be a fly on the wall for an interesting conversation.

The fact that the majority of the movie took place in one room with only five characters it was necessary to know the names of, didn’t throw me. After all, my favorite movie is Clerks.

There were no big explosions. There was no chase scene. There wasn’t really much of a “who-done-it” theme, either. Still, I don’t disagree with the genre. That, in itself, is very impressive. The writer and director of this movie took a script based on dialog and created a success thriller. The last movie I’ve seen that accomplished in was Pulp Fiction and there was a lot of actual violence in that movie.

Seth Green is amazing. His timing and his epic geek-ness is god-like. It was no shock that he held up his part, but the other actors did just as much. I feel like Katie Sackoff overacted a bit, but I also feel like it was called for in order to represent her character as well as she did.

I get why Sexy Evil Genius didn’t get more recognition. It doesn’t cater to the lowest common denominator. It was smart and it had faith that the audience could put two and two together without being led there step-by-step. I won’t deny that I like some of my lowest-common-denominator recipe films, but it’s a shame that there’s no room for something like this among them.

This is why we can’t have new things.

Rotten Tomatoes Critic Score – None

Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score – 46%

Netflix’s Prediction for Me – 4.6/5

Trust-the-Dice Score – 4.5/5

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