Hard Candy

 

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A mature teenage girl decides to go after a suspected pedophile that she met in an Internet chat room.

I heard about a shocking scene that was in this movie, but maybe it is only shocking to guys. Leading up to that scene, there is nothing suspenseful about this supposed thriller. The director loves to shove the camera right up in the actors’ faces, which makes the entire movie claustrophobic. What it mostly made me do is really dislike the lead character when I would normally be on the side of anyone going after pedophiles. It didn’t make me like the guy any more, but I didn’t like her. She just bugged me. I disliked the lead character so much in this movie, that it made me not want to see Juno, which stars Ellen Page and I have really wanted to see that since I first saw the trailer. Now that’s a bad thing!

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Also, just stating that someone is a pedophile didn’t really make it believable to me. What he was doing with the girl was slightly inappropriate, but he didn’t even try anything before she goes all psycho on him. I think that would have made the “shocking” scene a lot more satisfying. It mostly was just dull and she was lying about so many other things, it made me wonder if what she said was going on, or had happened, really did happen. As for the ending, it was completely stupid and not believable at all.

Rating: C-

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