A good movie

Michelle Rodriguez is nowadays the main choice to play the tough female sidekick in some blockbusters but many forgot that she actually started with a lead part in this forgotten little indie gem. Indeed, back then ,it was heralded at the Sundance film festival and ended up winning the Grand Jury Prize. At the time, Rodriguez had no acting experience and beat up more than 300 other girls at her first audition to win this part. Anyway, it was pretty obvious that she was born to play such parts (too bad she has been ever since typecasted in similar parts) and, this time, a character was a little bit more developped than her usual one-dimensional tough girls. Of couse, I have to admit it, the whole thing was not really original and fairly predictable but there was still something really compelling about this character. Concerning the director Karyn Kusama, she became a hot item after releasing this movie and, after that, she made some more commercial projects but they were rather underwhelming and both flopped at the box-office (‘Jennifer's Body’, ‘ Æon Flux’) . To conclude, even though it is pretty much forgotten nowadays, it is actually pretty good and it is definitely worth a look.

7/10