Rating of
2/4
Average at Best
DarkCritic - wrote on 01/08/10
Cherry Crush was a trying romance that started off rocky and ended worse. At first, I believed that the story had some sort of leverage or something to back it up, but I was sadly disappointed.
The story was lacking, at best. At the beginning, the main character finds himself expelled from school for taking photographs of girls that were considered "pornographic". They actually showed those pictures, and none of them were actually too bad, and you could tell that they were taken out of skill and practice, not showing a girl's body off to the camera. Also, the photos showed none of the face, so there was no showing who the girls really were, and they expelled him anyway. That was a very stupid way to start the story. After that, he basically fell in love at first sight with the main girl, who ended up hiding secrets about her family life that made her out to be a "villain" at the end of the film.
The characters were good, however, and I'll give the movie that. The main male wasn't too bland, and the acting for that character was really good. The rest of the characters weren't very original, but they were well constructed for the film, and fit very well in the folds of the story.
Overall, Cherry Crush is a good afternoon time waster. It's not worth seeing more than once, but the movie wouldn't be too bad to see at least once, especially if you're a fan of strange drama stories that revolve around murder.
