Brazen

UK Release Date: 13 January 2021

Certification: 15

Director: Monika Mitchell

Cast: Alison Araya, Matthew Finlan, David Lewis, Alyssa Milano, Sam Page, Emilie Ullerup, Malachi Weir

Rating: 10%

Don't waist your time watching this movie.

Review:

Brazen is best described as an hour and a half of my life I will never get back. 

The acting is honestly dreadful. It feels like something people in drama school would produce, and that's being kind. Alyssa Milano may play the most bland character ever put to screen, she has absolutely nothing interesting about her and doesn't have a personality. Like she's been in movies before but you genuinely wouldn't be able to tell. Sam Page is dull and no more than a stereotypical detective. Malachi Weir's performance was similar but he had cool hair (either an afro or a man bun) so there's that. Every performance is monotone and nobody seems like they're even trying to have fun on set. 

To help the movie's case they decide to throw in a forced romance. There is no chemistry at all between either Alyssa Milano or Sam Page or their characters. And the relationship doesn't even make sense, she chooses to have sex a couple of days after her sister dies, and I'm no expert but I don't think that's how grieving works. 

Brazen is filled to the brim with stupid creative and narrative decisions. The FBI enthusiastically lets an unqualified murder mystery writer work on a case involving an active serial killer. Scenes like that made me punch myself whilst watching because I couldn't believe how senseless they were. 

The worst aspect of Brazen is its awful script. The movie is based on a novel but it doesn't work.  Actors deliver every single line dead pan as Brazen chooses not to acknowledge that its bad film. Moments that are meant to feel emotional end up falling flat. There's supposed to be a real impact but due to the atrocious line delivery I was closer to laughing than crying. The script is extremely lazy to the point where it laid the killer right in front of the audience and chose not to throw in a single twist at any point. It didn't even provide for a satisfying ending because he's such a minor character in the first place.

I don't understand why there were any web cam scenes in the first place. They made me feel quite uncomfortable whilst watching in all honesty and they didn't further the plot in any way. 

Ultimately, I am never going to watch this again and I hope that nobody reading this will put themselves through this painful experience.