Hard Breakers

"My emotionally crippling father has nothing to do with the fact that I knock guys over the head and have sex with them." Two girls, Alexis (Richardson) & Lindsay (Monk) are single and living in Los Angeles. They have a hard time finding dates and after failure after failure they decide to change their approach. They walk around, see someone that looks cute and knock them out, when they wake up in the girls house the date begins. Every once in a while it is nice to just sit back and relax watching a movie that you don't have to think about. Like most of this type of movie they try to put a deep emotional plot in it without realizing that there is only one reason that people will want to watch. This is another movie where the plot isn't needed and you can just put in and veg out to. Sometimes those movies are needed after watching some emotional ones. All that said this is a movie about two hot blondes who have problems (?) getting dates. Think the "Sweetest Thing" but more of a "USA up-all night" version. After all this you are probably wondering one thing and no...there isn't really that much nudity in this. Overall, if you want a movie you don't have to think about and just watch you could do worse. I give it a C.

First let me say that I thought the basic premise was a pretty good one. I really liked the concept of turning the typical cheesy sex comedy on its head and making the women the 'aggressors'. I also thought Sophie Monk was actually quite good. So good in fact I wish she was the lead in the film. Unfortunately I just didn't find Cameron Richardson particularly compelling as the lead. The movie would have been better served had they switched roles. The cameo roles (Tia Carrera and Tom Arnold in particular, Kattan was a bit of a mess but not sure that was his fault as his character seemed to be poorly written)were decent as well. However this movie just never got off the ground due to either terrible editing, a poor script, or that they just seemed to run out of time (or money?) to put this thing together in a really coherent manner. Possibly it was all three. The father/daughter issues plot line, which motivated much of the characters behavior, never really came together until the very end and by then it was too late. Also the racial stereotypes were a little annoying as well. Having said all that is certainly better than the very low score it has on here. It does have moments and some of the performances were pretty good, particularly Sophie Monk. And I have to give credit to the writer(s) and director for at least trying something different.

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.

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.