Suffragette: Taten statt Worte (2015)

Suffragette: Taten statt Worte: Directed by Sarah Gavron. With Anne-Marie Duff, Grace Stottor, Geoff Bell, Carey Mulligan. In 1912 London, a young working mother is galvanized into radical political activism supporting the right for women to vote, and is willing to meet violence with violence to achieve this end.

“Erica Kessler plays Melissa, a sexy young employee at an agency who begins to notice people in her life behaving differently. Suddenly, her boss Samantha (Jessica Bork), whom she ordinarily canu0026#39;t stand, is a lot more pleasant. It turns out, something sinister is afoot: ugly alien plants are making the rounds, and producing carbon copies of human beings while they sleep. Soon Melissa is in the position of not knowing who to trust.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eFor those who donu0026#39;t already know, the movie producing company The Asylum has been in the business of making really cheap knock-offs of popular titles. Here, they clearly incorporate an u0026quot;Invasion of the Body Snatchersu0026quot; type plot, but Jack Finney probably wouldnu0026#39;t have been too impressed with this micro budgeted rehash. Filmed on location in L.A., it features a cast full of insipid u0026quot;actorsu0026quot; and u0026quot;actressesu0026quot;. The ladies are certainly attractive, and there *is* one lesbian sex scene, but these aspects donu0026#39;t do much to enliven such a third-rate script (by Leigh Scott, who also has a cameo as the desperate Zach Richardson). The music by Chris Ridenhour is actually decent, and deserves to be in a better movie. The effects are *very* limited, so thereu0026#39;s not even an agreeable gross-out factor that might have made this more fun.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAs bad as most of the performers are, theyu0026#39;re not totally without appeal. Kessler doesnu0026#39;t generate much sympathy for her heroine, but this viewer did like Danae Nason, the actress who plays her co-worker Billie.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eViewers are better off checking out or revisiting the u0026#39;56, u0026#39;78, or u0026#39;93 versions of u0026quot;Invasion of the Body Snatchersu0026quot;, or, for that matter, the u0026#39;94 adaptation of Robert Heinleinsu0026#39; u0026quot;The Puppet Mastersu0026quot;. Even B movie devotees may find this one to be terminally boring.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThree out of 10.”