Except of course, other women.

People who frequently watch my YouTube videos, read anything I have to say, or deal with me on a daily basis, have come to know that I am a sucker for bad or epic-looking direct-to-DVD movies. They're dirt cheap and even if they suck, they can still be fun to watch (Unless it's a comedy). It mostly started when I got a copy of Behind Enemy Lines II for $2 at EB Games. It was good cheesy fun that made you wonder if North Koreans have movies where they invade the US.

Since then I've picked up quite a few direct-to-DVDs, not all of which I've been able to watch yet:

Safe House, /w Patrick Stewart as an ex-DIA agent

Second in Command, w/ Jean-Claude Van Damme as a Navy SEAL

Game Over, a cheesy movie with FMV games

Pressure Point, /w Micheal Madsen trying to rescue his family

Chasing Ghosts, /w Michael Madsen as a detective going crazy

End Game, /w Cuba Gooding, Jr as a disgraced Secret Service agent.

The latest one I watched last night and was curious about for some time, the film .45 starring Milla Jovovich. So far, all of her movies I've seen she kills a lot of people, and this title looking like a revenge movie, I figured it'd be more of the same.


^{Except of course, other women}

I liked this movie, although the ending wasn't that "happy", although it does fit with the rest of the movie. It's kind of a dark comedy mixed in with a drama about a battered woman and what she goes through, especially in one scene where she is assaulted by her boyfriend "Big Al" (played by Angus McFadyen). Then she sleeps with all her friends until one of them is willing to frame Al for murder.

So it's a movie where Milla actually tries to act as opposed to killing anything that moves, and she does alright. She does a respectable performance as Kat, a woman from New York's Hell's Kitchen who wants to get out and live by the beach.

The cover and the title of the movie are misleading; she never wears that outfit (Or holds a gun), and with her in that pose to the title ".45" you think this is a shoot-fest. It blindsides you much like The Matador, where you expect one movie and get another. The reason why it's titled .45 becomes evident at the end when Big Al is framed for murder with the .45 handgun that is registered in his name.

I give it four welfare checks out of five.