Let me start with the positive here: Troian Bellisario. I have seen several seasons of "Pretty Little Liars" and I believe she is maybe the most talented from the cast. In this 15-minute short film, it becomes painfully obvious that her range is several leagues above her co-star. She creates hew own character and I did not feel like I was watching her character from PLL. This is also where we get to the first negative aspect and it is Shay Mitchell. There was nothing in terms of her acting that made a difference to her role on PLL. Also she had 2 or 3 very cringeworthy moments. One would be when she randomly rambles about "hard drugs and meaningless sex". Her performance here was pretty bad I must say. And the final weakness is the script. The director and writer is credited here with "Hazart", the pretentious combination of the names of two filmmakers actually. The story is about two young women who were part of a suicide cult, but yet they survived the mass suicide event for whatever reason. One problem already is that the dialogs and characteristics of the two protagonists do not resemble 2 women who would enter such a cult at all I have to say. There goes the credibility. And apart from that, it's painful to see how "Hazart" tried to make this film so edgy and relevant with lots of truly pretentious talk and then at other times they include dialogs that prostitutes would use. I see no talent here in terms of writing and I am not the slightest bit curious about their upcoming projects. The only solid ingredient in this film is really Troian Bellisario. "Pretty Little Liars" fans can give this one a watch because of the actors, but everybody else can really do without it.
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