Wonderful Movie

ridiculous rating

Powerful

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

A gritty and hard nosed coming of age story, this great little film has Hit Girl (Moretz) branching out into new territory, namely, something meaningful. It is not unusual growing up to hit a point when we think we know everything and have it all figured out. Usually, that's the point we look back on later and realize we knew nothing at all. Luli starts out naive, but not realizing it. She thinks she is all grown up, to the point of flaunting some sexuality. She finishes a lot wiser, having had some hard lessons. Baldwin has a nice turn, a bit more than a cameo, but he does a lot with a little. It's the script that really works, though. Nicely paced, written and thought out, it puts it all together.

All the actors/actresses played their parts well IMO, but the story is horrible. Synopsis; girl has what she thinks is a bad life, runs away, to more crazy and worse life...the big issue is the way the story and directing go about it...it's like they're trying to pull off some cult classic feel like pulp fiction, or kill bill....but this never gets it right...which is horrible for all the actors/tresses because every time they have to convey an emotion or look, they get it right. But the story is a major disjointed pile of trash, poorly directed, and IF this story merited a movie, it was poorly written. Watch Gimme Shelter if you want a movie with "a girl got beat down, but made it out with help" in a sane and thoughtful approach. Hick is a waste of valuable minutes out of a life that you can never reclaim.

Such a good and entertaining drama, is Hick, but of course what makes it entertaining is great little actress, Chloe Moretz, who takes on a braver, role, before that of something, like The Equalizer. She's sick of her white trash existence. At it's start, again, we see a kind of stereotypical type to Moretz's role, as a friendless schoolkid who's just turned lucky thirteen, where her Mum (Lewis) splits, seeing a much better offer with a much older ordinary looking guy, as she's left with good for nothing father, so she splits, meeting a few different characters, on her travels, and with her sexual prowness, raises a few eye lids. Hick is a movie adventure as to see what path, Moretz's life will take. She gets in a little deep, with a well meaning, but older unhinged cowboy, (Redmayne) excellent like Moretz, who wants her sexually, and Moretz will get a few meters running here. A fattened up Baldwin, a lodge owner, plays a real ambiguous and dark character, really hard to make sense of, who feels no remorse, in killing his own chickens, for profit. A cute little time passing drama, with great/strong performances, Hick is. It has a couple of moments that shock, but aren't we getting tired of wannabe tough asses, giving that Dirty Harry 44 magnum speech.

Based on Andrea Portes' semi-autobiographical novel, this is an icky film that follows white trash teenager Chloe Grace Moretz as she runs away from home and narrowly avoids being raped by just about everybody - until she perhaps doesn't. The main problem is that they just go way out of the way to make Moretz such delectable jail bait - she's either in short shorts or panties for a good portion of the movie, which if you're over 17 feels really pervy. It's too bad, because Moretz is great in the movie. It's no secret she's an awfully good actress, and this could very well be her best performance yet. The other actors, including Juliette Lewis, Blake Lively and particularly Eddie Redmayne, are also very good. Martini's direction is very good, as well, which leaves all the problems with Andrea Portes. Sucks for her that this is "60% autobiographical," but this story isn't really worth telling.