The film carelessly affirms the idea that all women should be able to fight back at will, and if they don’t, it’s on them.
The film doesn’t have much of a point, as its characters are reductive variables in an inevitable equation of carnage.
Simon Stone’s film too often strains for a tragic gravity that its ultimately melodramatic characters never earn.
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