Review – Hard Candy

Though the premise – female victim turns the tables on male victimizer – isn’t exactly novel, this production has some things going for it. The man is a child molester, and his table-turner is a very determined 14-year-old who sets him up from the beginning. The show has a couple of shortcomings. The last third of the movie (up to but not including the ending) is largely superfluous, adding conniptions and complications that don’t really advance the plot at all. And the dialogue is rife with the sort of empty-headed sarcasm that “witty” Gen-X screenwriters often employ in the place of genuine emotional exchange. That aside, however, this was a reasonably well put-together bit of anti-slasher medicine. Mildly amusing