ASSASSINATION NATION (2018) ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: Sam Levinson
Odessa Young, Suki Waterhouse, Harry Nef, Abra,
Colman Domingo, Danny Ramirez, Joel McHale,
Maude Apatow, Bill Skarsgård, Cody Christian,
Jeff Pope, Bella Thorpe, Stacie Davis, Cullen Moss
An in-your-face teen action movie that revolves around hacking and bullying and ends with four bitchy but heroic high-school girls forming a commando squad to battle the fascists who want to take over their town. Like Joe Dante's "Homecoming", it'a a genre piece with both a kick and a message, ending on a note of bleak hope and wishful thinking - that an army of gun-toting rednecks could be neutralized by an elite force of heavily armed adolescent girls. On the other hand, when you think about it, that does sound pretty scary.
