Review of Sweet Karma (2009) by Mark M — 15 Jul 2011

This is a little filmed-in-Toronto, independent film from what I can tell and stars a future Playboy Playmate in Shera Bechard. As the description says, she plays a mute russian girl whose sister went to Canada through the help of a group of people that are hiring women for domestic work in Canada. And apparently she was killed in Canada and little else is known about the incident. Well, Karma who is alone since her parents had died a while ago, is heartbroken at being alone now since she only had her sister left. To try to avenge the death of her sister, she goes to the same group who hired her sister to get to Canada to find the people that did this to her. And as we can see, the group hiring women for domestic work is really doing it for foreign sex workers to work in Canada.

As Shera's character is mute, she has no lines to speak and because of that, I would say her acting is quite good in portraying a mute person. Yes, she is pretty and there is nudity, but when the movie portrays the foreign sex worker trade and getting them to Canada, well, you can expect some nudity and violence, which their also is. She's like a woman possessed and a killing machine, but still human and frail at times. And getting to see some Toronto locations like the motels down the street are kinda neat.

So I liked it because of Shera and thought the story was fair. If you get to see it, hopefully you can enjoy it too. And the ending is a bit of a surprise which was good.