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Sweet Karma
A mute Russian girl infiltrates Toronto's underground sex trade to avenge the death of her sister.
Release : | 2009 |
Rating : | 5.1 |
Studio : | Black Fawn Films, Filament Films, |
Crew : | Production Design, Costume Design, |
Cast : | Shera Bechard John Tokatlidis Frank J. Zupancic Christian Bako Patricia Stasiak |
Genre : | Action Thriller |
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Best movie ever!
This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.
This is one shoddy movie, that plays off like some really bad z grade movies I've seen of past. It has been shot like a pure bottom grade movie. We have hottie sensation, Sheri Berchard here, probably the only's film's asset, amidst some strip scenes, private nude dancing, and some younger honeys. She's nicknamed, get this, Karma, a mute 20's woman who infiltrates an underground sex trade, in search of her sister, who's supposedly dead. This business is led by the usual scum you expect to see, characters that are now so stereotypical of so many other films, of past, set around this subject, most of them bad too. The nastiest of the baddies is Stefan, this actor obviously reveling in his fifteen minutes, driving a new girl, a much averse party, to suicide. Yeah, cheap blood here too guys. But sexy Berchard is someone you don't want to mess with. She's got her s**t together. She can put you under an hypnotic spell with her sexiness, Stefan falling for her like candy, and paying dearly for it, but he too is no idiot. About every actor in this movie is terrible, they all deserve a clubbing. I've only seen this movie once through, a couple of twists near it's end, one that came as quite a surprise, with quite a backfiring consequence for it's innocent party, but beside that, Sweet Karma is just sheer garbage, it's pimp characters, one a woman, all so reminded me of the ones in that much better movie, Freight, with damn much better actors. No, this one I'm afraid, earns it's place alongside Ladies Of The Lotus.
I have never seen a movie quite like this one. I DVR'd it by accident, but within the first minute I was hooked and stayed that way the entire movie. Such a great movie. I was like "You go girl!", main character was great. I thought for sure a woman must have written this film b/c of the subtle details that made it such a winner. But to my surprise when the credits ran through, lo and behold it was written by 2 men! Refreshing to say the least. I cant quite put it into words but it was just not what I expected. Usually during a movie, you can foresee what is going to happen, but this movie had positive "twists" that are just so uncommon these days. Not too over the top, done very tastefully. Great movie. When I think about the movie it makes me smile for some reason. Karma's a bitch.
The Russian mob runs into a revenge seeking female, and all hell breaks loose. Shera Bechard is quite good playing a beautiful mute. The Russian enforcers, running a sex trade business in Canada, meet violent deaths at the hands of "Sweet Karma". The movie delivers exactly what it promises. Unfortunately the under lit scenes, shaky camera, criminal over use of the "F" word, and numerous flashbacks detract somewhat. Nevertheless, there is enough death and mayhem to push this updated revenge flick into above average territory. At 85 minutes things move along at a good enough pace, with some throbbing electronic music accompaniment. Not bad of it's type. - MERK
I caught this film at Fantastic Fest in Austin, during a sold out screening. Clearly the reason the screening was sold out is that the lead actress was in attendance, days after winning an award for Next Wave Best Actress, so everyone wanted to know what the fuss was about. I won't bother going into the details about the plot since it's covered here by others, but I gotta say this was a cool little film. It's a nice modern take on the old style 70's revenge film. It's got a great energy, an engaging story, some bad-ass, albeit low-rent kill scenes, and yes, the performance from the first-time lead actress is a knock-out. She owns the screen. From the reaction of the audience, and the fact that almost 3/4 of them stuck around for the Q&A, I'd safely say that most others would agree with me. A perfect film? No. But a solid, must-see piece of entertainment? You bet.