DO REVENGE (2022)

DO REVENGE (2022)

Tagline: I'll do yours if you do mine

(Dark Comedy, Drama, Elite Garbage) [PG-13]

Note: This movie was given a TV-14 rating, but that is essentially a PG-13 had this been released in theaters. 

Drea, you are a conniving selfish sociopath who just uses everyone around you, to get exactly what you want…and so am I. Which is the source of the problem. 

In this one, Drea is very popular at her high school in her Junior Year and pretty much did everything she could to get there. Her boyfriend Max decides to leak a sex tape of them two and the entire school turns on her. She runs into a transfer student named Eleanor who had a run-in with a girl who started a bad rumor about her when they were 13. Both Drea and Eleanor want revenge deciding to get it by switching the targets after striking up an unlikely friendship. Drea will get revenge on Eleanor’s nemesis Clarissa, and Eleanor will get revenge on Max.

First off, I really was excited to see this thing, however, this movie is loaded with characters that would make you never want to attend a high school outside your house EVER. Everyone in this movie is deliriously sinister and vomit-inducing. Even worse, the movie is loaded with woke-feminism nods that overshadow the actual storyline which grinds to a sadistic tirade about how we need to feel sorry for these horrible people doing horrible things. When I mention woke-feminism it has the idea of presenting the women we are supposed to be rooting for as either equally as toxic, narcissistic, and morally corrupt as their male counterparts. It literally assigns all the things women hate about men and puts them into a female character. It also automatically elevates the female characters to a certain status without them having to do anything to earn it. It basically indicates the viewer needs to look up to women who wake up total narcissistic freaks from beyond the grave and have every special ability and resource under the sun. As my reviews move along you may see more comments about how films are affected by culture, but I try to just stick to the review. This movie is just particularly painful in this area.   

What this movie does right, is give us the dangers of texting and driving. Rish Shah who plays Russ is pretty great and the soundtrack, for the most part, is a win. I dig bubble gum pop. That’s right, you wanna fight about it? We also get a cameo from Sarah Michelle Gellar who plays the headmaster in this one. She was also in the movie CRUEL INTENTIONS which also deals with a lot of terrible people. Finally, the last lesson is actually first in the movie…whatever you do, no matter who you are, do NOT EVER make a sex tape for the love of all that is holy. 

What this movie does wrong is pretty much everything else. When I say wrong, I mean in the critical, this movie SUCKS sense. Not in a self-righteous way, but in the “this is what makes a movie bad” sense. This film basically highlights every issue plaguing happiness and worthiness and all that is even remotely valuable or good about mankind in general. I am extremely happy that I didn’t grow up in a crappy pathetic backward situation like this. I probably would have dropped out. There is a slight bit of redemption for a few of the worst characters, but it’s hard to feel sympathy for people that have already done so many trashy things. The redemption really isn’t redemption, it’s more like one of those band-aids that you put on that doesn’t stick for more than half an hour. 

Acting wise I really wanted to see this because I actually like Maya Hawke (Stranger Things) and Camila Mendes (Riverdale) as actresses. They both have the ability to get into their characters and make the most out of them. Unfortunately in these roles, there is nothing that really helps improve my opinion of either of them. They both play trashy people and either they are absolutely amazing actresses OR they are both really actually terrible. 

Overall this movie is just really bad. It is helped by the soundtrack but the writing is so crappy it makes me feel like this is one where the writers have Godophobia so bad that it’s coming out of their pores and crawling on their skin and they need to be disinfected from the inside out. You don't have a character take the Lord's name in vain in profane ways over and over in situations that don't even remotely call for it unless you have a real soul problem. I didn’t think it was possible that we’d get a movie that was supposed to be a comedy that was even more dumpster fire than HONOR SOCIETY, but here we are. 

This one gets a 1 out of 7 as sadly, the field of crappy regurgitated sewage for 2022, just keeps piling up. 

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