You’ve never seen KevinJames quite as he is in 'Becky,' a stylish, violent, and very gory home-invasion thriller. Read THR's review:
You’ve seen Kevin James play a Queens delivery man, a mall cop, a retired cop, a biology teacher turned MMA fighter, a zookeeper , the President of the United States, an animated Frankenstein, and a straight firefighter pretending that he’s gay.
, a stylish and very gory home invasion thriller from the directing duo of Cary Murnion and Jonathan Milott.crew and a collection of head tattoos advertising various Nazi logos, James plays the leader of an Aryan Brotherhood-like prison gang that escapes from jail and terrorizes a family at their lake house over much of the film’s running time. In one stomach-churning sequence, James’ character, named Dominick, is forced to slice through his own ocular nerve with a large kitchen knife. Such carnage, dished out in ample doses, tends to be the highlight of an otherwise passable B-grade exercise in tension, torture and human endurance. Originally selected for the Tribeca Film Festival, the movie will premiere online starting June 5th courtesy of Quiver Distribution. The titular heroine, played with verve by 14-year-old Lulu Wilson , spends most of the story fending off Dominick and his band of convicts as they do damage to her dad and, perhaps even worse, to her dogs. Fueled by high levels of teenage angst brought on — in a rather easy screenwriting ploy — by her mother’s recent death from cancer, Becky is set to take the earrings off and take down the baddies, finding some cleverly cruel ways to exact nasty revenge on each one of them., show off their stylistic chops from the opening credits, match-cutting between Dominick and his cohorts making their prison break and Becky and her dad driving out to the film’s secluded setting. When they get there, Becky finds out that her father’s new girlfriend is also a guest, putting a damper on the daddy-daughter bonding. Soon enough the jailbirds show up in search of a mysterious key hidden somewhere inside the house, and hell follows with them in ways both violent and predictable.tends to work best when it revels in the blood-splattered set pieces of its script , going that extra mile and a half in the gore department to create some truly disgusting moments, albeit ones that are laced with a grim sense of humor. Deadly objects include a metal skewer used to toast marshmallows, a ruler, a motorboat and the aforementioned key. Dogs are beaten and shot at, and the felons experience varying levels of bodily harm at the hands of badass Becky, who goes full Rambo during much of the second half. It’s all devilish fun that doesn’t amount to much — if not a rather crass display of girl power and extreme vengeance. The casting of James as a psychotic but not entirely stupid neo-Nazi turns out to be both the movie’s distinguishing characteristic and something that tends to cut the credibility factor in half. No matter how hardcore he tries to look with his tats and deep stares, James just doesn’t seem like someone who adheres to the doctrines of the Third Reich. He’s more like a nice guy pretending he’s sick, which is maybe how Dominick really feels deep down inside, butProduction companies: Yale Productions, Boulderlight Pictures, in association with Bondit Media Capital, Buffalo 8, SSS Entertainment, SSS Film CapitalCast: Lulu Wilson, Kevin James, Amanda Brugel, Robert Maillet, Ryan McDonald, James McDougal, Joel McHaleProducers: Jordan Yale Levine, Jordan Beckerman, J.D. Lifshitz, Raphael Margules, Russ Posternak Executive producers: Shaun Sanghani, Berry Meyerowitz, Jeff Sackman, Lawrence Greenberg, Galen Smith, Matthew Helderman, Luke Taylor, Joe Listhaus, Robert Levine, Phyllis Levine, Michael J. Rothstein, Roz Rothstein, Steth Posternak, Rohan Gurbaxani, Gigi Lacks, Kevin Debold, Stephen Morgenstern, Tara Martin, Kurt Ebner, John Hickman
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