Everly *
Dir: Joe Lynch. With:
Salma Hayek, Hiroyuki Watanabe, Laura Cepeda, Togo Igawa. 92 mins. Cert: 18
A gruelling gimmick
thriller, pitched at dead-eyed graduates of the Matthew Vaughn school of
cinematic sociopathy. Working girl Salma Hayek scrabbles to save her daughter
while confined to a Yakuza-run cathouse; she does so in kitten heels and a
push-up top that gets clingy when the sprinklers go off. Such abject cynicism
would have been easier to take cut with any style, wit or momentum, but the
contrivances prove exhausting, the digital camerawork’s as crude as the
stereotyping, and it’s no kind of star vehicle: it identifies Hayek as a sexy
punchbag from minute one, then displays a reprehensible glee in laying into
her.
Everly opens in cinemas nationwide today.
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