Bitch Slap (2009)
5/10
Lots of girl-fights in the desert sun
5 April 2010
Warning: Spoilers
I don't want to say anything bad about this movie. It was meant to be fun, and it is. Three female characters are searching in deserted area for some sort of treasure. As they go about their work, we see flashbacks of how they got to this point, and we also build some mystery as to who they are and what they are after.

For me, the movie was all about a star-making performance by America Olivo. She was WAY over the top, but I would like to see her in more lead roles--I'm thinking B-movie queen, along the lines of Julie Strain or Maria Ford.

SPOILERS So the only person who ends up being who they seem is Camaro. One of the other three is a spy. The one who was pretending to be dainty and naive was actually a Kaiser Soze-type of underworld leader. She makes off with the treasure, whatever it actually ended up being. Pretty much everyone else dies. There were some fun fight scenes, but some of it was filmed so close and goes by so fast, you can't really tell what you're seeing. Having almost all the action take place in one location also kind of felt limiting. There were a couple flashbacks in a club and some other locations, but they were brief. Overall, it does what it tries to do, which is re-create a Russ Meyer sort of project. I liked that it was about strong female characters, and I wish there were more movies that were.
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