Number Rolled: 6
Movie Name/Year: 36
Saints (2013)
Tagline: Are you
one of them?
Genre: Thriller
Length: 81
minutes
Rating: R
Production Companies:
Active Fox Productions
Producer: Peter
Bobrow, Jeffrey De Serrano, Joey Dedio, Franky G, Frances Lozada, Richard
Pleban, Mareo Ryan
Director: Eddy
Duran
Writer: Jeffrey
De Serrano, Joey Dedio
Actors: Franky G,
Jeffrey De Serrano, Donna McKechnie, Jaime Tirelli, Britne Oldford, Tyrone
Brown, Matthew Daddario, Aja Naomi King, Chris Riggi, Alesandra Assante, Allan
Louis, Laverne Cox, Raul Casso, Mihaela Kolich, Joey Dedio
Blurb from Netflix:
When unconnected people begin turning up murdered in Manhattan, police discover
a horrifying truth about the killer’s motives.
Selina’s Point of View:
You know what? No. Just no.
This movie was awful. Everything about was just terrible.
The story, the acting, the script, the setting, the continuity, the costumes…
it was all ridiculous. The movie even managed to score Laverne Cox (Orange is the New Black, Grand Street,
Grandma), which should have elevated the film to new heights… but the
creators didn’t utilize her correctly. Cox might have single-handedly been able
to put some good into this film if she’d been given a better part. Instead, her
presence made it even more clear how terrible everyone else was.
Don’t waste your time. I’m certainly not wasting a second
more on this film.
Cat’s Point of View:
I looked up 36 Saints
to see whether or not it was something I could watch with or around my
daughter. IMDB.com described this movie as “Se7en (1995) meets The Da Vinci
Code (2006)...”
I wish I hadn’t seen that; because it set up an expectation
for this film that it just utterly failed to deliver on.
I was so bored. The whole thing was stilted, slow, and poorly
acted. Needless to say, I didn’t like it.
The concept that was promised was actually quite
interesting. I think so much more could have been done with the story.
Unfortunately, it just felt like some jumpy game of connect
the dots rather than cohesive storytelling. There wasn’t anything to draw me
in. I couldn’t inhabit that world, and the disconnect was just too great to
overcome.
I saw some familiar faces in this film, but I feel it would
do them more injustice to mention them. They’ve moved on with their careers to
more successful things.
This is one I’d recommend only as a candidate for Netflix to
drop in their next purge.
Rotten Tomatoes Critic Score – None
Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score – 17%
Netflix’s Prediction for Selina – 1.5/5
Selina’s Trust-the-Dice Score – 1/5
Netflix’s Prediction for Cat – 1/5
Cat’s Trust-the-Dice Score
– 1/5
P.S. Some added information
during the credits, not a scene… just information.
P.S.2.
Trust-the-Dice has contacted IMDB in the hopes that they will remove the
misleading sentence comparing 36 Saints
to Se7en (1995) and The Davinci Code (2006).
Movie Trailer:
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