SheChotic

Look, this is not the best of movies, but the effort is really great. Yes, the acting is that of some student in Junior High trying to convince teach the dog really ate her homework: inflection, expression is okay, but at the same time, unconvincing AF. This shows that African-American movies can be mediocre too, just like (the bulk of) the white ones. No longer are black filmakers required to be twice as good as white ones in order to get their movies made. When you think about it, this is one of the most emancipating things that can happen, I'm only half kidding.

Yes, the storyline is somewhat predictable, except at the end. But it performs the basics, there are no great plot holes, especially considering the budget.

The lead actress is the biggest problem, acting two roles, Innocent Maxine and Evil Maxine. And because she's got the biggest role, it seems as if the acting is really bad, but truly, the other actors aren't half bad.

The production value is passable, it uses the daytime soap tactic of never doing outdoor shots, which gets annoying. But the aerials of Atlanta are great, although they might've been taken from stock footage.

Also, what's nice, is that the story doesn't stuff itself in the straight jacket of happy endings. It's not the Lilywhite-Goody-Two-Shoes-Ins-Out-In-The-End frame. What I liked too, was the micro role of the white cop. It was so tiny, it kind of rubbed it in even more.

So: Acting by the lead actress: 4 Rest of the cast: 7.5 Montage: 9 Storyline: 7 Location scouting: 8 Production value: 6.5

The Melancholic Alcoholic.

Granted I had not heard about this 2018 movie from writer and director Leandre Fiori prior to getting the chance to sit down and watch it. And nor can I say that this was a movie that I had any particular high hopes for. But still, I sat down to watch it, as I believe all movies should be given a chance.

I managed to endure 55 minutes of the ordeal that is known as "SheChotic" and then I had more than enough of my share of this movie. Let me just be the first to say that this movie was generic and uneventful. It was a low budget movie, an amateurish movie, but at least they get points for trying.

The movie felt very much like something you could make yourself, if you have a proper DV camera laying about. While it does have that amateurish permeation to it, I will say that it wasn't actually all bad what the film crew managed to do.

The story, however, now that was something else. First of all, it was very boring and it didn't really captivate me. But I managed to sit through 55 minutes, hoping that the movie would pick up and become more interesting. Sadly, it didn't!

As for the acting in the movie, well let's just say that this is not going to be pulling home much of any awards anywhere.

I am rating "SheChotic" a two out of ten stars rating, because the movie was boring and rather uneventful. And the lack of convincing acting performances didn't really do much to bolster the movie either. This is not a movie that I had any intentions of returning to finish, however.

This really is one of the worst films ever made. It looks like it was shot on someone's first generation iPad and acted out by whichever passerby said yes when offered a dollar fifty on the street. The acting is atrocious, with every line the lead actress speaks delivered like someone absentmindedly reading out the ingredients on the back of a cereal box. The music sounds like a Guatemalan daytime soap. The movie appears to have been filmed on a porn set, and the audio recorded on one of the catering staff's laptop.

Basically, SheChotic is a no-budget blacksploitation/rapesploitation revenge flick doing its darndest to ride the coattails of the present #MeToo hysteria and cram as much far-fetched rapeiness as it possibly can into its 90 minutes running time. I have no idea what it is trying to say but whatever it is, it's saying it very badly.

It's possible it could become one of those "so laughably bad it's good" movies like 'The Room' with time, and maybe there's a drinking game in there somewhere but I think that's a long shot and unrealistically optimistic. It's just completely unwatchable.