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SUNDANCE 2007
Weapons
"Weapons" by Zack Roddy
Written and directed by Adam Bhala Lough,Weapons takes place over one weekend in the lives of many very different, troubled, teenagers. Sean (Mark Webber) is home from his first year of college and is not surprised to find that his two best friends, Jason (Riley Smith) and Chris (Paul Dano) are doing the same thing that they've been doing since high school getting drunk, high, fighting, and trying to hook up with underage girls. One big change is that Chris has now started to carry a shotgun in the back of his trunk. Meanwhile, Reggie (Nick Cannon), a responsible African American young man, throws his responsibilities and impending job interview to the wayside when he discovers that his beloved younger sister Sabrina (Regine Nehy) has been raped.by Jason. Reggie embarks on an urban odyssey to find a weapon to kill Jason with, and will do anything to exact revenge, leading to an abrupt and unexpected showdown in a fast food restaurant.
Though visually impressive, I can't call Weapons a movie that I enjoyed. Everything about the film just seemed to rushed, there was no back story to the characters, and their choices just seemed too unrealistic. The actors try hard with the material, by I think that their abilities ultimately suffered from the weak script.
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