Dim the Fluorescents (2017)

Dim the Fluorescents: Directed by Daniel Warth. With Claire Armstrong, Naomi Skwarna, Andreana Callegarini-Gradzik, Brendan Hobin. A struggling actress and an aspiring playwright pour all of their creative energy into the only paying work they can find: role-playing demonstrations for corporate training seminars. When they book the biggest gig of their careers at a hotel conference, they commence work on their most ambitious production to date.

“The best way to describe Sweet Girl is that itu0026#39;s a fairly standard action-thriller thatu0026#39;s meant as a jab at the for-profit pharmaceutical industry.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eGenerally, it was kind of slow to start with when they were setting up the motivations for Jason Mamoau0026#39;s character. I feel like this could have been set up in half the time or less and most people would have been able to follow along and sympathise with his motivations.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIt also doesnu0026#39;t help that, due to the limitations of the script and possibly the director, Momoa doesnu0026#39;t provide a good dramatic performance here. His strength is in the action sequences, which is where more focus needed to be.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI also feel like Sweet Girl would have benefited from just being played straight, without the twist in the last half-hour. That just felt a little cheap to me; as if the movie wanted to come off as being edgier than it really is. The thing is that twists like that havenu0026#39;t been edgy in at least fifteen years, and realistically, they havenu0026#39;t been edgy in more like twenty years. Today, theyu0026#39;re mostly just tacky and forced.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eItu0026#39;s kind of a shame that this movie is like this, because I think there is a good movie hidden away somewhere underneath all of this. Itu0026#39;s just that this was a kinda bland execution of a good idea.”