Betrayed At 17 Movie Review

Betrayed At 17

                                                   

Betrayed At 17 is a drama thriller TV movie released in 2011. This movie is written by Christine Conradt and Ken Sanders and directed by Doug Campbell. The major characters of this film are played by Amanda Bauer, Alexandra Paul, Jake Thomas, Andy Fischer-Price, Katie Gill, Paula Trickey and Joe Penny. Betrayed At 17 gives a message to the immature teens, like what we saw in the movie Girl Fight.

The movie Betrayed At 17 is about a teen girl, who’s sex tape has been released by one of her classmate and the consequences leads to her death. Then her mother and brother tries to find the one who is guilty for this and then tries to bring that person to justice.

A scene from the movie Betrayed at 17

Plot:

Lexi is a shy teen girl who lives with her mother. Her father has passed away and her brother is living with his friends after her mother has kicked him out of the house for his drug problems. Lexi has a very good relation with her mother and brother. In school, she is regularly bullied by a girl named Carleigh.

One day, Greg, a popular guy and football player from Lexi’s school asks Lexi out for a dinner and Lexi agrees. Greg used to date Carleigh, so this make Carleigh jealous. After the date, Lexi and Greg go to Greg’s home and there they have sex. But what Lexi didn’t know was, Greg is taping their session, although he had no intention to circulate it.

Next morning, Greg shows a part of that video to his friend, who is currently dating Carleigh. Then his friend tells about this tape to Carleigh, who then goes to boy’s room and sends the video to other students from Greg’s phone without telling him.

At a party on that night, Greg and Lexi get to know about the spreading of that video. After knowing Greg has taped her and the tape is out now, Lexi runs out from the party in shame and then gets killed by getting hit by a car.

All the evidences put Greg as the only suspect. The police tell Lexi’s mother that as Lexi was 17, so according to the law, they cannot charge Greg with strong accusation. But Greg gets expelled from his school. Although he says Carleigh has done is, but no one can prove her involvement so she stays innocent by law. At one time, Greg accuses her in the school, but she lies in front of everyone.

Lexi’s death brings her mother and brother close again and they try to find who is responsible for it. Lexi’I brother beat Greg, but Greg swears that although he has recorded it, he has not sent the video to anyone.

Greg then finds a way to prove that Carleigh has done it. He manages to record his conversation with Carleigh where she says she has done it out of her jealousy for Lexi. But his mistake was, after Carleigh’s confession, he shows the recorder to her.

Carleigh gets mad to get the record and at one point, she kills Greg. Then she frames Lexi’s brother for the murder and the police arrest him.

Now, both of Lexi’s and Greg’s mothers get determined to find a way to get the killer of their children, to prove her involvements and to bring her to justice.

My review about the movie Betrayed At 17:

Although Betrayed At 17 was not a perfect pleasure to watch, but still it seemed as a good movie, specially considering its plot.

The plot of Betrayed At 17 is very good and realistic. It also gives a strong message to the young people about what the consequences of their action may lead to. The screenplay and the direction are also good.

I didn’t like the acting of Amanda Bauer, who is one of the leading characters of Betrayed At 17. Other than that, the acting of almost everyone else seemed natural and fluent.  The dialogues and makeups are also good in this movie.

At most of the parts of Betrayed At 17  the lighting and the camera effects didn’t seem proper at all. To me, this was the biggest flaw of the movie. Sometimes, the lighting seemed really poor, much like a B grade movie. This thing has ruined my total viewing experience of Betrayed At 17. This is the only issue for which I couldn’t completely like this movie, although everything else was pretty good.

Although the plot circulates around a sex tape, but Betrayed At 17 does not contain any direct nudity, so its totally safe to watch this movie with kids.

So, finally, Betrayed At 17 has an excellent plot, good acting and good screenplay. It could be a perfect movie if only the lightings and the camera effects were better. Still I enjoyed watching this movie. This movie also has a good IMDB rating of 5.0/10 while I’m writing this review. I’d recommend watching Betrayed At 17 to all drama movie lovers. But if you are fan of all genres of movies (like me), I don’t know how much you will enjoy watching this one (although I liked it).

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In some websites, I’ve seen that the plot of Betrayed At 17 is based on some true stories. You can search on google to know more about those stories.

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5 Souls Movie Review

5 Souls

                                     

5 Souls is a horror drama movie released in 2011. This movie is written by Colet Abedi and directed by Brett Donowho. The main characters of 5 Souls are played by Samaire Armstrong, Steve Bacic, Ian Bohen, Allison McAtee and Charles Solomon Jr.

The movie 5 Souls consists of two plots, where at one, a man whose wife and little girl have been killed in a collapsed building, is trying to find who is responsible for the accident. In the other plot, a man in coma is faced by a demon who is pushes him to kill five people.

Steve Bacic and Allison McAtee in 5 Souls

Plot:

At the beginning of 5 Souls, we see a small clip where a little girl followed by her mother runs to a building and then the building starts to collapse.

Then we see a man named Sam, an ex-police officer and the father of that little girl, leaving a lonely, depressed life and attempts to commit suicide but refrains himself at the last moment. Another building has collapsed and he goes there. He enters the restricted zone and a detective, named Sara, questions him. He says that he is a government officer and convinces Sara to let him stay there. Then another police officer comes and recognizes him but Sam doesn’t tell him that he has already fooled Sara.

Later on, Sam and Sara meet at a bar and Sara thanks Sam for not making her look like a fool in front of her colleagues. Then they make out. After that, Sam tells Sara that the owner of that building is responsible for the collapses by using poor material and he is also the owner of the building where Sam’s daughter and wife died. Sara agrees to take his help in her investigation.

On another side, on the day when the building collapses, a man named Noah, who is going to get married soon, goes to a doctor to get some vaccine. But just after taking the vaccines, he feels sick and then falls into coma after he’s taken to a hospital.

In the hospital, he sees a man in his room who has some very special abilities. That man says he has come to kill Noah, but after Noah’s begging, he gives him a chance. He says, Noah has to kill five people to save himself. Seeing no way out, Noah agrees and then proceeds to the killing. He kills the first victim, and sees that nobody can see him. He also meets a blind girl who can see him and she offers him her help but he refuses.

Meanwhile, Sam and Sara start to live together and continue their investigation. They find some clues of using low grade materials by the building owner. They go to his office and meet him, and he grants them access to company’s files. Their further investigation leads them to Noah’s fiancée, who is an employee of that company. But in these times, some personal issues and Sam’s past records irritates Sara and she wants to stay away, but finally Sam convinces her to keep him in the investigation.

At the hospital, Noah keeps on filling his quota of killing five people. The ghosts of his victims come to haunt him, but it doesn’t stop him from killing. The demon is pleased on him and then according to the demon’s instruction, Jonah wakes up from the coma to kill his last victim, just when Sam and Sara reach the same hospital.

Ian Bohen in 5 Souls

My review about the movie 5 Souls:

5 Souls seemed as a very strange movie, which has a good production value, but is very poorly written.

The plot of 5 Souls seemed very weird. Each of the two plots could make good movies alone, with the same cast. But none of them felt complete and their mixture also didn’t seem good. Though the whole movie, everyone can guess that the two plots will collide at the end, but the way they collided was not enjoyable. The character development also seemed very poor in 5 Souls.

But other than the bad scriptwriting and bad direction, almost everything else in 5 Souls was good. The actors and actresses did a good job. Almost all of the leading artists in 5 Souls have done a good number of TV series ago and their acting here seemed natural. The lighting and set design was also good and the special effects of the demon looked beautiful and scary. The sound effects were good too.

There is a small nudity in 5 Souls. For that and for the killing scenes, I think this movie is not good for children.

So, finally, 5 Souls is an example of how a poor plot can harm the beauty of an otherwise-good movie. I think, this one had a good potential to be a nice movie, but failed completely. I believe I’ve wasted my time by watching it. I will not recommend 5 Souls to anyone.

Have you watched this one? To you, what are the other flaws of 5 Souls? Share with others in comments.

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Oblivion Movie Review

Oblivion

                                         

Oblivion is a science fiction action thriller movie released in 2013. The release date of this movie is near to Will Smith's sci-fi movie After Earth. This movie is based on Joseph Kosinski's unpublished graphic novel of the same name. Oblivion is written by Joseph Kosinski, Michael Arndt and Karl Gajdusek and directed by Joseph Kosinski. This movie has a very small set of characters, which is played by Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman, Olga Kurylenko, Andrea Riseborough, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Melissa Leo.

Oblivion tells the story of future, where a drone technician finds a lady whom he has dreamt several times, in a crashed spaceship. Then the whole world, as he knows it, starts to change.

Tom Cruise and Olga Kurylenko in Oblivion

Plot:

This is a story of the year 2077. Around 60 years ago, some aliens (called Scavengers, or scavs) has attacked earth. They have started the attack by destroying the moon, creating environmental imbalance in planet earth. Then they invaded earth. To stop them, the world leaders have used nuclear bombs, which made the earth uninhabitable even for human. Mankind has moved to Titan, one of Saturn’s moons.

Now human have put several machines which generate power from the seawater. Scavs are still there in the earth, so human are using drones to protect the machines. There is also a space station named Tet near the earth, which is used as the control station of the whole program.

Jack is one of the very few people living in the earth. He is a drone technician. His job is to take care of the drones and repair them when needed. He lives in a secure high tech beautiful home with his partner and lover Victoria, who coordinates and navigates Jack’s mission according to the orders from the Tet. It’s been 5 years since Jack had a mandatory memory swipe, but regularly he dreams of another lady with him in a busy city.

Jack’s days pass by doing his job, while frequently he has to fight with scavs. In one situation, when he was face to face with a group of scavs, he finds that the scavs are no trying to kill him, but trying to catch him. He has a secret place, where there is still some trees left and there he has a cabin by a lake, where he goes secretly to relax.

One day, Jack and Victoria find a strange signal coming from a tower. Jack there place and before disabling it, he finds that, the signal is broadcasting coordinates of a location. Later on that day, Jack finds a crashed spaceship there with the crews in capsules. To Jack’s amazement, a drone comes there and starts killing them, instead of saving them. In one capsule, Jack finds the girl from his dream and saves her from the drones by risking his life. He brings her to his home.

As soon as she wakes up, she seems to recognize Jack. She tells her name is Julia and her spaceship was a mission by NASA. She then wants to recover the flight recorder from her ship, so Jack takes her to the crash site. There they are attacked by the scavs and the scavs take them to their hiding place.

After going there, Jack finds that the scavs are nothing but human. They ask Jack’s help to plant a bomb in the Tet. Jack refuses and then the scav leader lets him go free and suggests him to visit the restricted ‘radiation zone’ where, according to Jack’s instructions, he will burn if he enters.

Jack takes Julia to some place and asks her identity. Then Julia reveals that she is Jack’s wife. Jack then remembers some of his memories with Julia. Victoria sees the scene with her camera, and when Jack and Julia returns home, Victoria refuses to open the door. She also reports to the Tet that they are no more an effective team.

Suddenly, a drone gets activated and kills Victoria. It then tries to kill Jack, but Julia saves him. Then Jack and Julia get chased by some more drones and finally crash in the radiation zone. At the radiation zone, Jack finds a clone of himself and both of the clones start to fight. In their fight, Julia gets injured. So find treatment for her, Jack finds a home identical to his home in another zone, with the clone of Victoria as well.

To find answers, Jack and Julia go to the scav leader again. Here Jack tries to find the facts about the Tet, the scavs, his own past, Julia’s true identity and the mystery of the clones.

My reviews about the movie Oblivion:

I liked Oblivion very much, not for the plot, but for the beautiful cinematography and special effects.

The plot of Oblivion is very simple and predictable. There is no doubt that the plot is good, but we have seen a lot of movies with kind of similar plots, like I’Robot or the Eagle Eye. In a movie with Tom Cruise in it, we obviously expect something remarkable. There were a lot of hints throughout the movie Oblivion, so it became predictable that who the main villain was.

What made the Oblivion special was the beautiful screenplay, cinematography and the special effects. The use of special effects was extra-ordinary, even comparing with other high rated science fiction movies. The set design, lighting and camera works were perfect matches with the context of this movie.

Oblivion has a remarkably small set of characters but each of them has performed perfectly. I don’t need to write anything about Tom Cruise or Morgan Freeman, but everyone else did very well. The make ups and the dialogues were also extremely good. But this movie has very small amount of action sequences. More action sequences could make Oblivion more enjoyable.

Another downside of Oblivion is, a lot of screen time was given only to show Tom Cruise alone, specially on the first half. It was bearable only because it was extremely handsome Tom Cruise. With any other actor, it would look boring.

Although there is a small nudity at the beginning, but I still think it safe to watch Oblivion with kids.

So, finally, Oblivion is good movie, where everything, except the plot, were extra-ordinary. My time was well spent watching this movie and I’ll definitely recommend Oblivion to all movie lovers.

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