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Title: Disaster!!
Review: When I saw the preview for Hard Candy ahead of whatever artsy-fartsy movie I saw at the downtown cinema, I was excited. I thought it was really going to knock my socks off.Instead, I wasted a spot on my Netflix queue and got bored, yo.I will give it this: I can appreciate how edgy the movie was *meant* to be. But it fell horribly, terribly flat. Page (who is supposedly *so* intense as Haley) is a snotty little creep. Kohlver is a snotty grown-up creep. I don't feel any sympathy or compassion for either of them. And I'm not buying the whole teenager-tracks-down-criminal-and-makes-him-pay routine. What is she supposed to be, Encyclopedia Brown or something?Basically, the story heads into areas that it really should just avoid. I can't help but think that the intended result was for me to get all up in arms and shudder and tremble and think to myself "Oh wow - what a terribly intense film."Sorry...not buying it.
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