Tweeked
Picture: C
Sound: C Extras: C- Main Program: C
We continue to hope Go Cart Films will come up with a
surprise of their videotape-shot features, but most of them have been poor to
say the least. Beth Dewey’s Tweeked
had a good premise, a story about female crystal methamphetamine users who have
to deal with burn out and being used by men.
Unfortunately, though Dewey does give it a woman’s viewpoint, she should
have watched Darren Aranofsky’s Requiem For A Dream a few times to
remind her how serious drug use and addiction can get.
With a new super-AIDS virus supposedly coming out the use
of these narcotics, something the film does not address, it seems even more
lost. When dealing with sexuality, it
has another set of problems, not being as bad as XXX industry pseudo-acting,
but being criminally clueless just the same.
Friends Michelle and Carrie get into more and more trouble, but you
quickly do not care and their characters are not developed enough to keep this
going. Well, maybe someone will pick up
the idea and really know how to run with it.
The letterboxed 16 X 9 image is surprisingly problematic,
with noisy video black all over and the usual video flaws that suggest this was
not an HD shot. If it was, someone
really messed up. At least the
composition is not bad, but you get nothing special either. The Dolby Digital 2.0 is barely stereo and
shows the weakness of the on-the-scene audio taping as the videocassettes
rolled. The sound is yet another
disappointment, so the few extras should not surprise, including a deleted
scene that would not have helped and two trailers to push the project. Dewey was inexperienced when she did this
obviously. Maybe she’ll get better if
she gets to do another project, as she at least got the gender point of view
right.
- Nicholas Sheffo
