Queen of Hearts

Is 'Queen of Hearts' the kind of tripe being sold to African Americans these days? Who enjoys this silliness? If it wasn't for Robert Ri'chard, I wouldn't be here. Double this feeling afterwards. Done in a ham-fisted way it can't be taken seriously for a second. It's unintentionally funny and there's enough cheese supplied here within the first 15 minutes to open up your own sandwich shop.

Pamela (Kimia' Workman) is a delusional young lady who snaps when Justin (Ri'chard) her married boyfriend breaks up with her because she's too much. While burying his body, she learns her sister is in the hospital in critical condition because an abusive boyfriend beat her up. When she dies it's a full on snap from reality and she begins targeting other "bad men" leaving behind a ripped up playing card hence the title. A police detective (Sharrie McCain) on the trail of her killings is also in a relationship with an abusive man too.

In this age of cheap digital cameras it's easy to put together a movie and that's exactly the case here. Ultra low budget - 20k apparently - so serviceable visually, but everything is sparse. Wherever money could be saved it was. No roles that aren't essential. Cheap settings. Someone's kitchen subs in for a coffee shop, a living room for a clothing store. A spare room doubles as a police office.

The story is 80 minutes of awful. The police element is sloppy and its rendered pointless by a whack ending. Not to mention how trash men are attracted to this walking, talking red flag. Some hammy acting from Workman doesn't help. She's totally unconvincing as someone able to overpower men easily, fly under the radar clearly very cray-cray. While McCain is flat and lifeless as the necessary cop.

My sole reason for tuning into 'Queen of Hearts' was Ri'chard and he puts in what amounts to a cameo though he's prominently featured on the box art. Tray Chaney (The Wire) apparently has been reduced to doing this sort of junk for a paycheck. I saw this for free on Plex and the cost of sitting thru the ads was almost too much. Some laughs courtesy of men bashing is all you'll find here.

You see, Robert Ri'chard, on the cover, read a summary and believe this will be a good film. However, that's absolutely not the case. Refer to the previous viewers review for a full breakdown that is true view of this film. I would only change that Robert Ri'chard, is only in less then the first 5 minutes; and the main actress over acts every scene. I couldn't get through it because of the poor filming and writing, plus the over acting from other actors too. Yes, there are some great actors with very small parts, but the writing for their parts is poor. This is a low budget film and it shows. Back to the drawing board. They should really remove Robert's face because clearly his less then five minutes isn't worth watching the rest of this film.