Beverly Kills Review!!!
SYNOPSIS: When Beverly Jackson is turned down for a role in an LA play, she forms a "cult" hellbent on getting revenge on the people who have held her down through the years. At the play house, Shane has been dumped and sleeps on the stage. When Ray, a sound engineer, takes a liking to him, the two become wrapped up in Jackson's revenge plot. Will the cult blow up Hollywood?
ANALYSIS: There are a precious handful of movies which are such disasters that the audience is left completely befuddled before, during and after the presentation ends. It's a rare film in which the audience doesn't know that the hell is going on DURING the picture, let alone after it. And its even worse when you feel bad for the people involved in the production. You just wonder if they really have careers outside of the claptrap you've just watched.
Such is the case with Beverly Kills. There are at least three competing storylines and, in a production running just 80 minutes, there is no way they are all going to get serviced properly. The most interesting plot, at least from a visual perspective, is the story of Shane and Ray (pictured) and Shane's reluctance to commit to a relationship because he's gotten burned in the past. It's the one that has the most heart, the most to identify with. Unfortunately, it gets pushed to the side entirely too often by Beverly's cult, a completely ludicrous affair that involves lesbians, a non-speaking man, his manager and some other characters attaching bombs to their fanny packs. The third storyline, that of the play, gets the shortest straw, and maybe that's a good thing. From what we see, it's not exactly a quality production.
Sometimes you have to wade through the crap to find the diamonds. If you're lucky, you can find the good stuff. All too often you're stuck with Beverly Kills. Crap of the highest degree. It has something it wants to say, about Shane and Ray, but the script is too hellbent on being a farce as opposed to a romantic comedy like Trick. Avoid at all costs. Despite the gratuitous shots of naked asses and early-movie penis.