This movie failed to deliver in a big way. The title(s) tells you to expect a revenge film but there is only even getting for the last 15 minutes of the film. So what does the other hour and fifteen minutes consist of? Utter nonsense and clear evidence of a vanity project.
John De Hart wrote, produced, and starred in this meandering adventure through the life of an ex-cop. Without Sarah around, the first twenty minutes or so were pretty hard to follow until we realized that we were overthinking it. Right in the beginning the main character and his eccentric friend, Huck Finney, (and yes the name is deliberate) are framed by their evil boss and fired. De Hart wrote in a bunch of self-indulgent moments including singing with a band at a really white trash bar, reciting a bit of Hamlet's most famous monologue (he really wants you to know he did the reading in 11th grade English class), and having many overly long sex scenes with the stripper he hired to play his girlfriend, one of which directly rips off "9 1/2 Weeks" and all of which are uncomfortably scored with jangly, overly sentimental folk love songs by De Hart. De Hart finds out his girlfriend was involved with a guy in a Satanic cult that sacrified a child, and this is put on the back burner while other stuff happens involving Huck Finney being high or something. His character was erratic without explanation. The girlfriend realizes that De Hart's boss who got him fired is the leader of the Satanic cult and then dies in a motorcycle accident perpetuated by the cult, I guess. It wasn't clear. De Hart gets revenge. In the last minute we find out the girlfriend is alive and technically there was no need to get even at all. We felt cheated.
Overall, this movie had some funny parts, usually because of the music, but a lot of it was boring.
Spoon Rating: 3
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