Of course I wasn't familiar with the 1990 movie titled "Meridian" from director Charles Band, prior to stumbling upon it here in 2024. But I am no stranger to many other movies from Charles Band, so of course I opted to sit down and watch it. The fact that the movie was one I had never seen before, much less heard about, and it's title, then my interest in the movie was definitely caught.
The storyline in the movie was bland, and the narrative was rather slow paced and sluggish. And without a whole lot of interesting things happening throughout the 85 minutes that the movie ran for, it was somewhat of a struggle to sit through this particular movie and feign an interest in it.
I found the narrative in the movie to be rubbish and the writers struck out in terms of entertaining me.
Of course the fact that the movie was starring Sherilyn Fenn also helped to make me want to watch the movie, but even she stood no chance in lifting up "Meridian". There were a few familiar faces on the cast list, aside from Sherilyn Fenn, with the likes of Phil Fondacaro and Vernon Dobtcheff.
There was a little bit too much focus on some sex scenes that dragged on a for way too long, and it sort of made the movie unnecessarily sleazy. Those scenes could easily have been cut out of the movie and it wouldn't have hurt the narrative. But I am guessing writers Charles Band and Dennis Paoli felt an urge to add those for some reason.
"Meridian" had a good title and a good cast ensemble, but it suffered from a boring and dull storyline and narrative, and it really wasn't worth wasting 85 minutes on watching.
My rating of "Meridian" lands on a very, very generous three out of ten stars.
