Walking home with her 12-year-old daughter after midnight on the Fourth of July, Teena crosses paths with some local losers to be brutally gang raped with her daughter Bethie watching. Bethie is able to identify the rapists, but when the rapists hire a hot shot attorney who attacks Teena's character, Dromoor, a local police officer who was first on the scene when police were called, starts to take matters into his own hands. A gulf war veteran seeks vengeance against those who assaulted a single mother. There is not much of anything original or unpredictable going on with this movie. It is pretty much your standard revenge flick, where the bad guys get off in court, and they are dealt with via vigilante justice.<br/><br/>There is one bright spot in the film, though. That is the performance of Talitha Bateman as the daughter. She acts in a relaxed, natural manner that is totally believable. In fact, she shows more acting ability than some of the other characters in the movie. But to be fair, there are a number of caricature roles in the movie that aren't very demanding of the actors (for example, the bad guys and their mother).<br/><br/>Bateman is young, so I hope she can find some better scripts than this in the future, and continues to grow as an actress. At this point, she reminds me of how Saoirse Ronan was at the same age. Ronan developed into a very good actress. I hope Bateman can do the same. I am surprised noone mentions the actress named unger or something like that playing the raped womans mom and daughters grandma. She is terrible and no way could be the mom as she looks the same age as the "daughter". But more disturbing is the actrress unger's weird lip issue.Some kind of plastic surgery gone wrong-lip puff up?? Its obvious and gross. Overload of botox in her upper lip ? hahahahahaha I mean she looks really creepy and sounds like a man.<br/><br/>The whole movie was silly and unreal and lousey.
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