Review of Final Girl (2015) by Quincy T — 12 Jul 2015

Poor cinematography and editing ruin the date night. In what seems to be a montage audition for Hit Girl role, Veronica (Abigail Breslin) spends the first act with hard training only to engage in blurry fighting shots and illogical script. It has intriguing concept, yet plagued with so many plot holes, the movie becomes incredibly far fetch. However, the biggest hurdle is lack of any decent choreography and the attempt to mask it with shaky cam.

Story is outlandish, a girl is trained for years to fight several perverse boys only to anticlimactically face them in frail melee. There are many questionable developments here, such as the lack of firearm, how a girl could agree being herded into a forest in the middle of the night or simply the dialogues they use.

It appears the movie wants a deep analogy with the visual and script, yet they are all too sloppy to be believable. In fact, the situations and conversation are far from realistic, even in the scope of the exaggerated premise. Abigail Breslin performs well though, she's entirely likable and carries herself well.

As the story progresses into second half, one would expect a showdown in battle royal theme. Sadly, Final Girl utilizes inferior camera work and downright timid choreography to convince audience of the struggle. It looks too inauthentic and unfortunately hurts the build-up. Furthermore, it uses some trippy hallucination hyperbole which adds to the unfeasible showing.

With such feeble execution Final Girl is far from empowering, it's a silly plastic husk of what could've been a good idea.