Knifings, shootings, rape, incest, homosexual violations, drug- dealing, paedophilia, child kidnapping, superstition, police corruption, just a day in the life of a typical Dominican family.
Throw in Keanu Reeves, who has the acting ability of an Easter Island statue (though he looks somewhat older), let him pursue a totally other plot as if two movies from different genres had been spliced together, with a cameo from Mira Sorvino (who, unlike her co-star, the passing years have treated well), and you have this train-wreck. What on earth were Lionsgate thinking?
Yet it was strangely watchable, more so than many a competently made cookie-cutter movie. I think there is enough evidence among the shards to suggest the movie as originally conceived, before Lionsgate butchered it, would have been something fresh. I would be interested to watch the "Director's Cut" of "Hija de Dios" but I doubt I will ever get the chance.
Let us hope Gee Malik Linton gets another chance and "Declan Dale" leaves the profession in shame.
Throw in Keanu Reeves, who has the acting ability of an Easter Island statue (though he looks somewhat older), let him pursue a totally other plot as if two movies from different genres had been spliced together, with a cameo from Mira Sorvino (who, unlike her co-star, the passing years have treated well), and you have this train-wreck. What on earth were Lionsgate thinking?
Yet it was strangely watchable, more so than many a competently made cookie-cutter movie. I think there is enough evidence among the shards to suggest the movie as originally conceived, before Lionsgate butchered it, would have been something fresh. I would be interested to watch the "Director's Cut" of "Hija de Dios" but I doubt I will ever get the chance.
Let us hope Gee Malik Linton gets another chance and "Declan Dale" leaves the profession in shame.