The Beautiful Ones (2017)

The Beautiful Ones: Directed by Jesse V. Johnson. With Ross McCall, Brian Tee, Fernanda Andrade, Julie Warner. A mob family shylock falls in love with the wrong woman during a turf war, and has to use his unique skills to rescue her from the same people he once called brothers.

“This movie gives me painful memories of the plethora of u0026quot;beatnicku0026quot; movies made in the u0026#39;60s, which had absolutely nothing to do with reality and everything to do with Hollywoodu0026#39;s misperception of what society was like.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe screenplay seems like it was hastily scribbled onto the back of a napkin during a lunch break. The directing makes the actors look like fourteen-year-olds trying to act u0026quot;tough.u0026quot; To paraphrase an old fiction warning, u0026quot;any similarity between this movie and reality is entirely coincidental and unintentional.u0026quot;u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eEric Roberts provides the only performance worth noting in this poor excuse for entertainment, but if you look closely into his eyes, youu0026#39;ll notice that he seems to be thinking to himself u0026quot;WTF am I doing in this steaming pile?u0026quot;u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI give it three stars because itu0026#39;d look OK playing in the background on a bunch of TVs in a retail showroom, but definitely not worth viewing.”