You were warned in the headline. This article is not political, or a commentary on current events. It’s nothing more than entertainment. If you don’t like salty, snarky, jaded movie reviews, move on.
For the rest of you weirdos, here goes:
I can’t believe I recommended this movie to my wife!
I watched a good movie (not great, but decent) starring Johnny Strong (his actual name). In it was like 20 seconds of one of the most beautiful women I’ve ever seen. And, I’ve seen a lot of those.
Anyway, while this chick had ZERO to do with the movie, the producers cleverly used HER photo for the movie summary when you’re scrolling. That’s marketing, now.
Heck, I used her face to lure you into this article!
So, I latch onto the woman for a looksee if she has any movies where she’s on screen long enough to enjoy her true assets.
Welp, I found her name on 3 titles, so I scrounge one up. “Scarlett” is the name of the movie. My wife and I are snowed in, so I figure, give it a try. It’s got all the stuff my wife likes: Christian theme, Halmark plot, inspiring, emotional, blah blah blah. Me? I’m just looking for the blonde bombshell, an Amanda Nicole Thomas. I’d never heard of her, but I get why she goes with all three names; nobody wants to be Amanda Thomas number 342 in a sea of Amanda Thomas’s. It’s cool that her initials are ANT. Like an anthill or anteater.
Click here for more about Scarlett movie.
On with the review
Bridgestone Multimedia Group is trying to distribute this on DVD for $9.99. Reviews are saying this is a waste of money.
I’m glad I didn’t have to pay to watch this on Prime.
Watch it on mute without subtitles and make up your own dialogue. If you got through fourth grade, you’ll do better than the script writer did.
Remember the phrase, if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything? Ok, the girls in the movie have nice hair. Scarlett’s hair is straight, long, squared off, with bangs. Amazing. I love her hair! I will say it again: I love her hair!
And, I already mentioned how beautiful Amanda Nicole Thomas, who plays Mia, is.
That’s the nice thing. Now for the truth about this movie.
If a Christian movie producer wanted to enhance the stereotype that Christian movies fall flat on production value, then this one accomplished that mission in spades!
I’d watch this just to mock it’s lack of plot coherency. I’d use it in a filmmaking class to warn students how NOT to produce a film. A script writer with NO world experience, just starting out in life, would immediately see the holes in this hokey plot.
Scarlett, the names sake of the film, is NOT the least bit jealous that her handsome boyfriend is spying on his abusive neighbor’s gorgeous wife and coming over uninvited to her hospital room, and later, multiple times to her house. Meanwhile, he has a fiance, Scarlett, who cares nothing about that and is NEVER the least bit jealous or suspicious that her boyfriend constantly checks on this hot girl and announces it when she’s on the phone with him. They finally all meet, but I’m surprised they don’t have a threesome. It’s that obvious they all are into each other.
However, that’s not the focus of the film. It’s about blue eyed, blonde Barbie looking Mia reading her Bible and being pregnant and crying that she doesn’t seem to care enough about her Mexican husband who threatens her with a gun, knife, punches her out repeatedly, yanks her around in public, including in a hospital in front of multiple witnesses, flashes a gun in the hospital, no repercussions for any of this…
Even the mean guy’s dad drives up to the main character, Chase, the one who’s looking out for the abused Barbie doll, and he flashes a gun, firing it multiple times into the air, pointing it at Chase, who raises his hands, saying, “Who are you?”
The guy says, “I’m not going to warn you! Leave Mia alone!”
Like he’s her pimp or something. He never appears in the film again.
After this crime (which was on Chase’s mansion property inside his gate) Chase goes to the mansion and has a canned soup lunch with his fiancé Scarlett. They both shrug off the threat and comment on how bad the soup is.
I wish I were making this up.
It’s the most poorly plotted, written and acted movie I’ve seen since “Fury to Freedom” a Christian movie flop from the early 80s. And you know how bad those were!
I left after 45 painful minutes. 47 minutes to go. My wife liked the movie. Ask her about the ending. She told me in great detail, but I blocked it out.
Oh yeah, to make things even worse, the girl Mia, blonde and Barbie like, was born a Mexican. She had plastic surgery. That’s really in the plot.
Any criminal needs to watch this movie. That would be cruel and unusual punishment right there.
A woman appears in one shot dressed as a hospital worker with a clipboard. She witnesses the violent husband waving the gun at Chase and Mia in her hospital room. However, as he grabs her and drags her out, the woman is nowhere to be found. The angry husband walks her out without any interference, waving the gun and yelling.
Oh, yeah. That’s believable.