Young lass Gwen (a terrific performance by Katharine Isabelle) finds herself at a roadside diner with no idea of who she is or how she got there. Through a series of intricate flashbacks Gwen figures out the circumstances pertaining to how her boyfriend died and the assorted colorful criminal types involved in said death.
Director April Mullen keeps the tricky, but still coherent and compelling story zipping along at a brisk pace, brings a right-on hip'n'funky pulp sensibility to the enjoyably lurid proceedings, and stages the exciting action with rip-roaring gusto as well as delivers a handy helping of bloody violence topped off with a wickedly amusing sense of dark humor. Tim Doiron's crafty script provides a few neat twists and turns.
Isaballe plays two radically opposite personalities -- one confused, innocent, and vulnerable, the other cunning, worldly, and dangerous -- with tremendously impressive skill and aplomb; she receives sturdy support from Christopher Lloyd as sleazy crime boss Cyrus, Doiron as eager sidekick Ty, Kyle Schmid as ill-fated boyfriend Aster, Michael Ironside as the baffled Sheriff Knowles, Jesse McCartney as the smitten Winks, and Mullen as cheery illegal arms dealer Lemmy. A nifty little flick.
Director April Mullen keeps the tricky, but still coherent and compelling story zipping along at a brisk pace, brings a right-on hip'n'funky pulp sensibility to the enjoyably lurid proceedings, and stages the exciting action with rip-roaring gusto as well as delivers a handy helping of bloody violence topped off with a wickedly amusing sense of dark humor. Tim Doiron's crafty script provides a few neat twists and turns.
Isaballe plays two radically opposite personalities -- one confused, innocent, and vulnerable, the other cunning, worldly, and dangerous -- with tremendously impressive skill and aplomb; she receives sturdy support from Christopher Lloyd as sleazy crime boss Cyrus, Doiron as eager sidekick Ty, Kyle Schmid as ill-fated boyfriend Aster, Michael Ironside as the baffled Sheriff Knowles, Jesse McCartney as the smitten Winks, and Mullen as cheery illegal arms dealer Lemmy. A nifty little flick.