Sweet Girl (2021)

Sweet Girl (2021)

 

4/10

Starring

Jason Momoa

Isabela Merced

Manuel Garcia-Rulfo

Amy Brenneman

 

Directed by Brian Andrew Mendoza

 

The thing about Sweet Girl is that the moment you’re finally exposed to the hidden truth and the power behind all the killings, it messes up the buildup. The movie trips on itself when it reveals the main plot twist and just stumbles its way through to the end. If the writers had removed the plot twist, I feel this would’ve been a much better movie. Plot twists are supposed to elevate movies, not drown them.

When it comes to PTSD and multiple personality issues, movies like Fight Club have created the blueprint that’s easy to follow. Sweet Girl leaves behind stupid traces that you’re supposed to put together when the plot twist drops, but what ends up happening is that you feel like the writers must think you’re stupid. You’re left with more questions about how everything happened.

The Cooper family consists of dad Ray (Jason Momoa), mother Amanda, and daughter Rachel. Amanda falls ill with terminal cancer. The family fights with everything they have to save her, but to no avail. Suddenly, there’s good news: a new drug with high efficacy is available to save her. But when it’s time to administer the drug, the pharmaceutical company pulls it off the market. Amanda dies, and Ray swears revenge. The thing is, Ray had called a TV station where the CEO of the company was and swore to get revenge if Amanda dies—and then she does.

Months later, Ray gets a call from a journalist who says he has proof that can take down the CEO. Ray goes to the meeting point, which is on a train, followed by Rachel, unbeknownst to him. During their meeting, the journalist is killed by a hitman who also wants to kill Ray. Rachel jumps into the mix to try and save her dad, and in the end, she is thrown off the train to the platform (the train had stopped), with Ray beside her, stabbed and bleeding to death.

Fast forward a year later, and Ray, still bent on getting answers, traces the CEO to a charity event. Things get out of hand, and the CEO is killed. Now, Ray and Rachel are on the run, as the police are after them and the vice of the company has also sent mercenaries after them.

The movie would’ve been better if it had killed both the protagonist and the main antagonist, because there was no need for that stupid ending. The good guy, after killing so many people to get to the main boss, then decides to let the justice system handle the rest.

It’s sad that it has come to this point, where good movies are now so hard to find that this kind of nonsense is what’s being passed through the boards as a movie worth producing.

You can see this on Netflix if you still want to watch it as a Jason Momoa fan.