Contracted (2013)
2/10
Don't waste your time
4 December 2013
Warning: Spoilers
I had hopes for this film. But they were soon dashed 35 minutes in when I realised the plot was going nowhere fast.

Najarra Townsend plays Samantha, a young woman who had been in a lesbian relationship with a girl called Nikki. This girl Nikki is played very badly by an 'actress' called Katie Stegeman.

Ms Stegeman is to acting what Hitler was to world peace.

Nikki and Samantha have recently split. Sam is living with her mother, rather reluctantly - and due to boredom accepts an invitation to attend a party where she meets a mysterious man whom she has a one night stand with. Sam considers herself to be a lesbian but she has sexual intercourse with a guy? After that, Sam starts passing a lot of blood, which she puts down to bad periods.

She visits a doctor. The doctor tells her she has a rash and a slow heartbeat. And Zzzzzzzzzzzzz...

It's at this point I was losing interest fast. Bad acting didn't help the weary slow plot and script.

I also forgot to mention Sam has a former lover, a guy called Riley. He pops up from time to time, trying to win Sam back and telling her how terrible she's looking these days. Everybody tells Sam how terrible she's looking these days. It's a running line in the movie.

There's also another woman whose name I didn't catch. She apparently fancies Sam. And err, erm...yeah, I agree boring.

And err, have I forgotten anything? Yeah, well, Sam gets worse and she starts looking and acting like a zombie. Sounds fun but it still wasn't interesting.

I won't give away the ending. It's not great anyway.

2/10.
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