Monday 13 July 2015

Hick (2011) 6/10

Starring : Chloe Grace Moretz, Eddie Redmayne, Ray McKinnon, Rory Culkin, Juliette Lewis, Blake Lively, Alec Baldwin
Director : Derick Martini
Running Time : 99 mins

Shortly after her thirteenth birthday, Luli McMullen (Moretz) decides to leave her home town of Nebraska and head to Las Vegas, after seeing an appealing advertisement on TV. She hitches a ride with Eddie Kreezer (Redmayne), a limping cowboy type, and she soon finds herself on a journey that will teach her about the real world and how dangerous a place it can be.

In spite of not really having any plot to speak of, this was an interesting movie that gave Moretz a well-deserved leading role, but the characters all felt a little too unlikely, what with everyone seeming to be a potential rapist or a nutcase, and the coincidences of the connections between the characters she meets was a little too far-fetched, considering the distances she was travelling, and I wasn’t a big fan of the ending which made it feel like her character had learned nothing on her journey.

You’ll like this if you liked : Freeway


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