Review of Heart of the Storm (2004) by Jessica G — 15 Jul 2008

Good idea, but it's the usual execution. Mother and her two teenage daughters are held hostage by three criminals and the criminals threathen them and the women try to nagotiate with them. Blah blah, very boring.

The thing that struck me though was that one of the teenage girls was acting odd, she talked in a childish voice and talked "baby-talk". I was wondering what was wrong with her, was she supposed to act like a 6 year old?

Nope, she tells her sob-story about that she was hit by a car and her mental capacity went down.

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First of all, this was next to impossible to see, because she has no problems expressing difficult words and besides being a little shy, she was making full eye contact, something that is often difiicult when you have a disability. I, myself, have highfunctioning autism and I could not relate to this girl.

Secondly, if she was mentally disabled, having the criminals enter the house and taking her family hostage would have freaked her out, mentally disabled persons likes order, when that order is broken, they get confused and terrified. At least that is my experience with both my disability and others.

So this movie wasn't believable and very predictbale, it was only one thing that I couldn't expect, but it dosen't make up for the rest of the movie.

Over all the acting was bad.