Who Is More Twisted?

Hard Candy (4/5 stars)

This is one sick, twisted movie. It's the story of a man who meets an underage girl on the internet and arranges a meeting. Eventually they end up at his place and you think that the girl is really naive and is going to get taken advantage of and then... wham! It turns out that the girl has been plotting a revenge plot on the pedophile from the start; she drugs him, ties him up, and basically phyiscally and mentally tortures him throughout the movie.

What is so unnerving about it all is that while you obviously want to root against the predator, the girl is so rampantly psychotic that you are almost rooting for him at the same time. The levels she goes through to mentally abuse the man are pretty sickening. It's an interesting movie in that way because it makes you choose, whose side are you on, morally?

The main strength is in the lead performances, and the writing and direction are for the most part good, the one flaw I think the movie has is that towards the end it almost goes too far over the top into the ridiculous zone. But still it is definitely an interesting watch.