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As the title says. The actress is attractive, and the fighting is decent. Yes, she is a little old to be college age. But I enjoyed this flick. Seen on Tubi, the free streaming site.

This is not art, this is not cinema, this is a way to pass some time. Bad guys beat the crap out of the good guys but guess who wins in the end. Scarlett as a college student takes a real stretch of the imagination. She looks like she enrolled in college after the birth of her forth child but oh she can kick.

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Horrible movie. And I am not even talking of storyline and plot holes. The idea that women and children cannot kill is being too far stretched. Let the world burn but a woman will not kill. Let bad guys kill 100 people but a woman will not shoot a bad guy to save them. What are these moviemakers thinking? Morals go both ways. And her father can kill everyone. That is ok because he is a man? Nowadays there is too much snowflaking in movies. This is a prime example of it.

Potential to be great but never getting there.

The protagonist of the movie while skilled in self-defence and firearms is also extremely dumb tactically. The character made too many mistakes for someone who's supposed to have been prepared and trained all her life to keep safe and stay alive. Maybe the father should have put in the hours to do some intellectual training, to go with her physical training.

She kept making obvious mistakes, after mistakes, after mistakes as the movie went on. This made it soooo frustrating to watch. In the end, I started hating the character.

Her dad on the other hand is one cool S. O. B.

SUMMARY: The movie was a tad predictable, and bringing nothing new to the genre, but had moments of goodness (not brilliance).

VERDICT: Its watchable (albeit frustratingly so) on a dull boring day.

The cheapest boxed wine will pair well with this cheesy excuse for an action film, that has more plot holes than Swiss cheese. It started off promising, then quickly became a grueling 103 minutes of nonsense, repetitive ridiculous and irrational action scenes, and a story that couldn't be any more predictable. This film could've easily had 1 hour of film landing on the cutting room floor, and you'd have the exact same story, only told shorter and more enjoyable. The score was annoying and overbearing and the cast performances were unbelievable. This had amateur C-grade film written all over it, and felt like a failed high school drama class project. I'm shocked this was even green-lit to market.

A little predictable. Lags a little with all the reminiscing.

Disappointed with the casting of Scarlett. This actress is too old to be a college student.

The storyline is reasonable and for the most part the script works. Fight scenes are decent. It is a bit too predictable, but it is an entertaining action novie.

It's too damn long for no reason and a little cheesy, but damn it, it's not a bad movie, I've seen much worse and plus it has no cringey woke crap.. I'd rather watch this than any of the new Star wars trilogy.

Movie could have been better if good cast was used, story line is not, picture is good. Lady is too old for college gal.

Well crafted script, believable premise. Good acting, good pacing. I could watch a sequel.

The plot is familiar, but the action is fresh and the protagonist is extremely competent. This is a fast paced action movie with lots of hand to hand combat and shooting' tootin'

Wow are there no college age actresses in Hollywood?

Start look promising. You can predict the flow and that not the bad part. Decision making in this movie is too much. Really not normal i was difficult to watch later.

Put this last to watch.

Didn't even give this movie a chance because of the casting. It may be descent but I couldn't get past the 30 something college student. Casting is everything to me and I know I just wouldn't like this movie.

B movie not bad tho-action etc enjoyable.would def watch a no2.

This plot has so many holes and factual issues that the writers clearly had no clue what they were doing.

For example, the main character shoots a propane tank and blows it up, killing two men. The tank is next to a house. Later in the film, she returns to an undamaged house.

The dialog is workable but the illogic of the plot makes this unwatchable.

If Lifetime is to drama as B-movies are to horror, is there a particular term for action-thrillers that follow that same direct, unsubtle slant? Because 'Scarlett' is full of it, from the very beginning - and it's an irresistible delight.

I'm not familiar with most of the names here, though I've seen Melanie Stone elsewhere and know she's a very capable actress. I don't know the films of director John Lyde or writer Brittany Wiscombe, though at this point I'm genuinely excited to learn more. I don't think a movie can be this plainspoken, pointedly forsaking nuance, without deliberate intent and effort behind it. It takes work - and I applaud the product of that labor.

The title flashes on-screen within seconds, in large, scarlet letters - see what they did there? The opening scene depicts a generically cloaked figure infiltrating a compound while the guards they evade seem altogether disinterested. The camera abruptly cuts to a shot of a piece of furniture at the precise moment that Scarlett (Stone) bumps into it, revealing plot development. Our protagonist makes decisions that defy the training she was supposedly raised with.

The antagonist expresses great frustration with a display of violence while shouting not an expletive, but "Jeez!" Characters fail to don all proper PPE in a laboratory setting. There is a forcefulness to fight scenes that to me betrays not that they're unpracticed, but perhaps that an expert choreographer was not involved in production. But then, maybe I'm wrong - if effects artists can revel in the splatter of cheesy, fun horror flicks, why can't a learned fight coordinator take joy in orchestrating a scuffle as plain as the writing behind it?

As visible as actors are in any given movie, they are often the first to garner our derision if a feature in any way falls below our expectations. Yet there's a distinct difference between a performer being incapable of convincingly inhabiting a role, and a performer being instructed by their director to lean into the flavor of a role. No one in 'Scarlett' is going to be mistaken for Chiwetel Ejiofor or Jennifer Connelly, but just as it takes a great level of skill to express boundless emotions with nothing more than one's eyes, there is a craft to withholding any such expression, or to portraying a character with conscious bluntness to the same effect. I find no fault with Stone's performance, nor that of anyone else here.

The narrative in 'Scarlett' is hardly revelatory, but it's sufficiently engaging to keep watching. It's certainly not perfect though; the constant back and forth of capture and escape grows to be a bit much, and a writer of any skill level should know better, even in a film like this. Moreover, I rather wish that the protagonist were given more agency. Even as Scarlett is undoubtedly the heroine of this tale, there's a measure of constraint to how she is written, as the movie repeatedly reminds us she's not a master spy, her training was secondhand, and this story is almost more about her father than it is about her. If your screenplay centers a character, then they should definitively feel like the center.

Ultimately, 'Scarlett' isn't really fulfilling, but it's entertaining. Melanie Stone and her costars play their parts well, as they are directed to do for this screenplay, and the unquestionably straightforward course of the narrative is fun in its forthrightness. We celebrate horror films that tell stories with a similar approach, and the lesson should be applied to other genres, too - so just sit back, relax, and enjoy the cheesy sport of it.

It was watchable, but there were some moments that made me cringe.

She gets in the car and pulls the battery from her phone. Ok, smart move, prevent someone from tracing you. (Um... I haven't had a phone with a removable battery in decades.) But then she uses the phone from the safehouse and is surprised when someone shows up.

We see a flashback of her and her dad at the gun range where he comments on her grouping. Then she shoots at the the two guys who show up at the house and hits a propane tank 5 feet to the left.

The acting was good, and the plot was all right. I enjoyed watching.

I had never heard of the actors, but they all did a respectable job. There was a little twist to the movie that was nice.

My wife and I enjoyed..a lot of murder, shooting and killing..ignore all of that and just watch it... try it you'll like it..

One of those "kept hoping it would get better" movies.

Weak plot, terrible directing, totally unrealistic action scenes. There wasn't much simple common sense anywhere in the movie. How many times, in one movie, can the bad guys get the drop on you and the situation seems hopeless, then due to some ridiculous and totally unrealistic turn of events, you manage to reverse it and escape, only to get captured again. It almost made me dizzy with the number of times this happened, sometimes three or four times in the same scene.

How many people in the world do not know that when you have the chance to incapacitate someone who is trying to kill you, you don't simply stun them, you stack and attack until they are permanently eliminated. I lost count of the number of times that rule was not followed. So every time the guy was knocked down and the good guy ran, the bad guy got back up and resumed their attempt to kill you.

I could go on and on, but why?

What a total waste of time.