Hard Breakers

This video is totally awesome! I find it cool and interesting. I thought it would just be another American Pie movie. But i enjoyed it more rather than American Pie. I love the part where the girl would find her real match. Someone who can make her a better person. Someone who can change her. That's what every girls' dream. To find the right guy for her. Someone who can correct all the wrongs in her life. And I love the friendship they build in this movie. Having your best friend with you thru thick or thin is the best things in life. And being with her all the time is the great time of my life. It was totally fun! I appreciated this movie well.

Funnily enough, this is actually called Ball Breakers in my country of the UK, and not Hard Breakers. I stumbled across the DVD for this film in a shop, and decided to take a look at it and buy it. While I am regretting my decision slightly, it didn't cost much and it's nice to tick off an unknown movie off my list. It was a bit better than expected, though it's the kind of film you only watch once and then forget about.

I recognised the likes of Chris Kattan, Tom Arnold, Tia Carrere in this film, all playing their roles in a fairly wooden and emotionless way. I wasn't wowed at all by the acting here, though I have seen worse. Sophie Monk who I recently saw do a decent job in the spoof film 'Date Movie' is here, and I was a bit disappointed with her performance here as I enjoyed her role in Date Movie. The story could have been made quite interesting but just wasn't, and it feels like it has wasted potential. It doesn't realise its ambitions.

It's kind of like a gender inverse film Apatow flick, with similar plot lines and humour styles. I did laugh a few times here and there, but I can't say I was particularly entertained and it's the kind of film you don't really go back to.

Could have been better, but it's not dreadful. 4/10.

I usually don't write reviews but after watching this movie, I had to mention how bad this movie was and so registered into IMDb and am now writing this review. This movie makes me feel like I've just lost 2 hours of my life and trust me, I've seen bad movies. Anyways, there is no storyline, the scenes change haphazardly and the script is incoherent. The only tolerable part of this movie are the eye-candies in the form of the 2 lead actresses but you are bound to get bored after a while looking at their bodies, and awful acting. Don't want to be too harsh on them but they should have seriously gotten their brains checked before accepting this movie. And what is a talented actor like Tom Arnold doing in this movie? Seriously, was he threatened to act in this movie or what?

I wouldn't recommend this movie even if this is the last movie on Earth. Go play ball instead.

If the girl power twist were put on a spring break movie from the '70s it might have been revolutionary, but this movie was released in 2010. The girl power aspect at this point is so cliche it makes the movie more than a little dumb. I mean I like Cameron Richardson and Sophie Monk. I think they're both quite beautiful and charming. The problem is the script is lame, the direction is choppy at best, and the supporting cast, despite the guest stars, is pretty awful. It might have been saved by a harder R-rated supply of naked bodies and sex, but this film just doesn't go there. It's a very mediocre buddy movie with a dark attitude and a very lightweight comedy script.

Based from the cover of the movie, you'd expect this to be another teenage comedy movie, but it didn't turn out to be that. The movie tells a story about two women who start using men for sex. Somehow the stereotypical image of the approach to sex is reversed in this movie, and that was a refreshing way to go at it.

As for the cast and the acting, actually people in the movie did good jobs with their roles and characters. Cameron Richardson, playing Alexis, came off as a slightly gullible and lovable character, while Sophie Monk, playing Lindsay, was the aggressive vixen. And these two carried the movie, with their charms and beauty.

Though, I prefer a movie having more carrying it than just two pretty ladies. And there is a handful of familiar faces making appearances throughout the movie. Tom Arnold playing Alexis's father. Tia Carrere playing the gunstore owner wearing pink camouflage! That was weird, just where do you need to camouflage yourself in pink? And I would say that the best performance in the movie was the one done by Chris Kattan, in the role of Hertz Waters.

The movie isn't all bad, there are moments where it had potential. And actually there are lots of nice scenery and views in the movie, good camera work as well.

But as for the story, it was fairly weak and failed to come off more than mediocre. I am sure the idea was really good on paper, but on screen it didn't stand out in a memorable way.

I managed to sit through the entire movie, though I was tempted to get up and find something else to do a couple of times. I just hoped the movie would pick up and become more than it was, but no. The movie just went onward in a monotone dull pace, leaving you able to disconnect your brain entirely and just sit there and glare at the screen.

If you are in for an evening's worth of entertainment from the comedy genre, there are better choices than "Hard Breakers" available.