Lamar reviews - Becky 6-12-20

This is a movie that is definitely not for everybody. My wife is still mad for watching it with me. If you are opposed to graphic violence, and I do mean Graphic with a capital G this is not for you. If you are uncomfortable with a 13 year old girl taking out bad guys in the most imaginably gruesome ways possible, you will want to take a pass. But if you can imagine Kevin, in Home Alone, instead of hitting Joe Pesci in the face with a paint can on a rope, giving him a colonoscopy with a chainsaw and that doesn’t bother you, then you can put this squarely in the “guilty pleasure” column.

The movie has an interesting start. We flash back and forth between Becky at school and a prison. As a fight is going on at school there is a fight in the prison yard. As Becky, played by Lulu Wilson, is being picked up from school by her dad Jeff, played by Joel McHale, prisoners are getting in a prisoner transport truck. The scene switches back and forth and it is really a cool effect. Becky has lost her mom to cancer and she is filled with rage about it. 

To make matters worse as they arrive at their cabin on the lake they are joined by Jeff’s girlfriend Kayla, played by Amanda Brugel and her little boy Ty, played by Isaiah Rockcliffe. Then Jeff announces that they are getting married. This is more than Becky can take. She runs off into the woods to a shed where she hangs out. During this time four violent prisoners have escaped from the transport truck and they find their way to the cabin. The leader of these neo-Nazis is Dominick, played by none other than Kevin James, complete with a huge swastika tattoo on the back of his shaved head. Talk about playing against type. It may take people a few minutes to get used to Paul Blart as a cruel, manipulating, murdering Nazi. The other 3 consist of humongous Apex, played by Robert Maillet, and 2 other guys that we don’t know, and will probably never see again, who are just here for the slaughter. They are like the guys with red shirts on the Star Trek, no point in learning their names. Dominic is at this cabin for something he hid there that is of great importance to him. When he can’t find it he realizes Becky must have it and he starts torturing her dad until Becky brings it to him. Sadly for Dominic he’s been in prison with murders, robbers, deviants, and serial killers. That does not prepare someone to face a 13 year old girl Having not raised one, he has no idea that prison is not built to keep us safe from him, it is built to keep him safe from pissed off girls 13-17, the most dangerous creatures on this planet. And to make it worse he has her cell phone.

The movie is 93 minutes, Rated R for bloody violence, grisly images, I truly can’t believe what they did with an eyeball, and language. Honestly I still can’t get past the eyeball.

This is the first dramatic role for Kevin James, much less playing a neo-Nazi. Some people may not be able to see past the other characters he has played, but from the first scene of him in the prison yard, I was sold. But as good as he was, Lulu Wilson was fantastic. She is headed for way bigger things than this low budget revenge movie.

If you like a revenge movie that is really graphic you’ll like this. If you are squeamish, just skip it and watch Toy Story or something.

My Score: 4 Budweisers

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