American Honey Reviews

I had no idea what to expect from this flick but since it was starring Shia LaBeouf, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, even though the damned thing was certainly intriguing, to be honest, it never really convinced me. First of all, I had a hard time to wrap my head around the whole door-to-door sales business. I mean, is it still something in the USA in our modern age when you can order pretty much anything online? Furthermore, even though the main character and probably most of the people involved in this crew came from some terrible social and economic backgrounds, it hardly seemed to be such a great upgrade to spend hours in a bus and then spend some hours going door to door to sell some damned magazines. They kept giving some scenes during which they were all cramped up in this bus with some ‘hip’ music, all singing out loud, but I never really saw what could have attracted them to this lifestyle. It didn’t help that, even though the movie was almost 3 hours long, they didn’t spend too much time on how it was actually working. I mean, it’s great that they mentioned how awesome Jake was as a salesman but it have would been interesting to seeing him actually closing a sale. Of course, you could argue that the whole door-to-door sales business didn’t really matter, what really mattered was this group of outcasts and especially the main character. Indeed, they all had an interesting personality but you could feel that they had been hurt, even maybe traumatized, by life in general. Concerning Sasha Lane, she was just so charismatic, I can’t wait to see her again in the future and Shia LaBeouf, well, the guy has been pretty much born to play such tormented souls. Anyway, to conclude, even though this movie didn’t completely work, there was still something quite spellbinding about the damned thing and I think it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre. 

P.S.: By the way, each time I now hear 'We Found Love' by Rihana, I always get some massive flashbacks from this movie which might have been more powerful than I thought.