Thumper's father said, "If ya can't say sumpthin' nice, don't say nuthin' at all." Obviously, a movie review can't be totally blank, so I'm struggling to find "sumpthin' nice" to say.
We watch as a Bolshoi ballerina suffers a horrific injury and wonder, was it an accident or was it deliberate?
My first thought was that those 15-year-old boys must have had a good time, thinking up one scurrilous, sexually suggestive situation after another. Then I looked him up and director Francis Lawrence ("Hunger Games") isn't 15. Maybe a juvenile screenwriter? Hmmm... Justin Haythe ("The Lone Ranger") seems to be old enough to know better. However, the scenes didn't titillate, because of the awkwardly conveyed "ick" factor.
Some of Mr. Lawrence's cast:
This is rated a hard R, so expect profanity, nudity, fisticuffs, many sexual situations, torture, knives, guns and a lot of alcohol. Anyone who knows me will agree that I am not prude, but I yawned through one groaner after another and our less-than impressed screening audience was silent as we shuffled out of the theater.
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See what I mean:
http://www.imdb.com/
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