Complicity (2012/Inception Media Group DVD)

Picture: C Sound: C Extras: D Main Program: B+

When girl accuses a boy of rape, it soon becomes more when the boy is found murdered by her and her friends. As they try and find out the truth, it soon becomes a blame game what are they going to do with the body then they continue to blame one another. Soon, it becomes evident they are blackmailing each other to stay silent. As the get ride of the body, the bigger problem becomes if they can't trust one another will there be more bodies to bury?

C.J. Harding's Complicity (2012) starts with a party gone terribly wrong, a group of friends suddenly find they have a dead body on their hands. After a popular girl accuses a boy of raping her, her friends murder in rage the boy without evidence. A spoiled rich girl, a short tempered football player and his black friend, a goth girl, and a camera boy were the ones around when the murder happened. What started as sympathy and revenge for their friend soon turns to guilt and suspicion, none of them want to be involved, but each one is guilty by association alone.

This is a movie a group of kids and murder and can they get away with it. As they realizes how much trouble they are in, they have no time to feel remorse or guilt, as they soon become more afraid of going to jail and some telling the truth, they must decide on what the story is and how to get rid of the body. But the thing they can't get rid of afterwards is the guilt that they could of done something to stop or prevent it, now they have a dark secret they must live with, and be forever in fear of their friends, the truth and their lies.

Sean Young also stars, leading a cast of young unknowns, but this is not bad. Too bad the anamorphically enhanced image and lossy Dolby Digital sound are on the weak side. There are no extras.

- Ricky Chiang