Boston Girls (2010/Cinema Epoch DVD)
Picture:
D Sound: D Extras: D Feature: D
Hell hath
no fury like two pissed off chicks from Boston.
Cinema Epoch’s latest indie flick is a
killer B-movie take on The Boondock
Saints and is entitled Boston Girls.
When Carmela and Lynne find out their boyfriends have been cheating on
them, they take it upon themselves to exterminate every cheating abusive dirt
bag in the city, and even though the cops are right behind them, Detective
Fitzgerald is having a hard time condemning the two girls.
Boston Girls takes the righteous wrath of The Boondock Saints, along with Boston’s unique charm,
and mixes them into a very classic crime spree narrative. These common elements have complimented dozens
of excellent movies like Natural Born
Killers, Bonnie and Clyde, and The Departed. Unfortunately though, Boston Girls is an awful train wreck of a movie. The dialogue is awful, the acting verges on
unbearable, and the plot hovers in a limbo between crime drama and slasher
flick which seems to drag on for hours.
Boston Girls was shot on video, and it shows. Most of the film takes place in the dark,
which is a sure way to make even professional quality video look like a home
movie. The 16:9 widescreen image has
noticeable video noise even in well-lit shots and the color in most scenes has
no depth to it. The stereo audio is just
as bad with clear room tone and echo in several scenes. As for extra features, this disc contains only
a brief still photo slideshow and a trailer.
Usually
when I wrap up a negative review of a violent movie I can say, “but die-hard
horror fans will still get a kick out of this cheap, formulaic slasher.” But Boston
Girls doesn’t even have that going for it. Sure, the entire movie revolves around a
series of gratuitous murders, but there’s very little gore and only a few
seconds of nudity, the cornerstones of slasher cinema. There’s almost no one, outside the cast and
crew, who I could possibly imagine would want to own this film.
- Matthew Carrick
