Give these guys an ‘A’ for effort in this messy tale centering on two independently sick gorgeous women who meet through a support group for grieving parents. A strong director and good acting fail to save yet another “crime drama” that seems to present sickness, in and of itself, as entertainment, relying primarily on “plot twists” rather than “plot”, including lead characters suddenly changing personality in what I assume is supposed to be a shocking “reveal” but instead just seems overly contrived. This one deserves credit for making the opposite mistake of most films like it: it spares the violence, and takes over 2 hours to tell a fairly thin wisp of a story, trying to draw it out as a drama rather than relying on shock as most movies of this sort do. And scene-by-scene, it’s far better made than many films like it. It doesn’t drag that much. But motivations are thin-to-nonexistent, questions aren’t answered, and there isn’t a single truly relatable character, either before or after apparently sane characters suddenly turn out to be murderously insane with no foreshadowing or logical reason whatsoever.
