(Rating based solely on the first five minutes only)
I was retroactively watching some of Shawnee Smith's films and saw this in her filmography, so I found it online. To my surprise, Shawnee pops up right at the beginning of the film as the meth-addicted wife of Tom Arnold's character. She has some memorable moments as she paints her toenails well outside the lines due to being strung out, and then a bit of mania as her meth highball hits her system.
Then, she died during a confrontation between Arnold's meth dealer hubby and some representatives of the cartel competition, so I didn't need to see the rest. She played the part of an addict deep into a meth addiction quite well, they even gave her some dental prosthetics to make her teeth look rotted. It's like an alternate universe of "Saw," where Amanda met Tom Arnold's character rather than experienced Jigsaw's cold-turkey method with the reverse bear trap.
The rest of the film might be enjoyable, it's your call. If you're a fan of Shawnee Smith, save it for a rental, she'd killed off less than 5 minutes in.
I'm giving Shawnee's performance eight stars. Wonder how they got her into it? Maybe she was friends with someone in the production? Seems the film is rife with cameos, so maybe they particularly sought her out to add to the cameo list.
I should give a shout out to Arnold, who provides some humor after accidentally shooting his wife "Sorry hon!" And then, after a fire breaks out in his meth lab, he quickly pulls out a fire extinguisher to douse the flames....And it's so old that it gives one sad puff and dies.
I was retroactively watching some of Shawnee Smith's films and saw this in her filmography, so I found it online. To my surprise, Shawnee pops up right at the beginning of the film as the meth-addicted wife of Tom Arnold's character. She has some memorable moments as she paints her toenails well outside the lines due to being strung out, and then a bit of mania as her meth highball hits her system.
Then, she died during a confrontation between Arnold's meth dealer hubby and some representatives of the cartel competition, so I didn't need to see the rest. She played the part of an addict deep into a meth addiction quite well, they even gave her some dental prosthetics to make her teeth look rotted. It's like an alternate universe of "Saw," where Amanda met Tom Arnold's character rather than experienced Jigsaw's cold-turkey method with the reverse bear trap.
The rest of the film might be enjoyable, it's your call. If you're a fan of Shawnee Smith, save it for a rental, she'd killed off less than 5 minutes in.
I'm giving Shawnee's performance eight stars. Wonder how they got her into it? Maybe she was friends with someone in the production? Seems the film is rife with cameos, so maybe they particularly sought her out to add to the cameo list.
I should give a shout out to Arnold, who provides some humor after accidentally shooting his wife "Sorry hon!" And then, after a fire breaks out in his meth lab, he quickly pulls out a fire extinguisher to douse the flames....And it's so old that it gives one sad puff and dies.