Ten years ago, Cecilia (Jo Schaeffer) was a big hit, pretty much the queen of YouTube and the influencer of influencers. She was raking in the big money, and she was expecting this to last forever, not content with having at least her fifteen minutes of fame. But now she's in her mid-30s, her popularity has vained, and her audience has grown up out of following her and/or has gone elsewhere. But she wants to turn all this around, wants to hire an almighty press agent (Adriana Ducassi) specialized on just that, leading fallen stars back to glory. There's one problem, a press agent like this costs and costs plenty - money that she doesn't have, not even part of it. And that she loses her job as delivery driver over stealing doesn't help one bit either. But then she witnesses an old, not exactly liked acquaintance, Brad (Sam Stinson) doing a drug drop-off, and she captures it on her phone ... and has the good idea of blackmailing him, for the modest sum of $50,000. Brad agrees to pay up, but instead of actually doing so, he lures her into a trap - that ultimately springs on him when his biss Matthew (Holt Boggs) shoots Brad dead for getting caught on camera. Thing is, he has shot Brad with the gun Cecilia has brought to the scene, and both the weapon and the actual shell Brad was killed with are covered in her fingerprints. And why did he do it? Well, Brad was no longer useful as a drug mule, but Cecilia, with all that evidence handing over her head, just might be a perfect replacement. After all, who'd suspect a prim and pretty woman in her mid-thirties to ship drugs from Mexico to the US, right? Valid point of course but for one detail - Cecilia isn't at all caught out for that sort of thing, and how she goes about doing this ends in utter dhaos and ultimately fatalities ...

A very cool ittle thriller that twists and turns more than your usual genre fare, but never loses its story in the process, one that moves along very stringently, even despite the many flashbacks, and places action, suspense and whatnot to keep the audience invested in the story throughout. And act to this a strong cast amd a subtle yet dynamic directorial effort, and you're left with a very entertaining piece of genre cinema that's well worth a watch for sure.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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