Review of Red Ridge

Red Ridge (2006)
4/10
No good
2 December 2008
Warning: Spoilers
The movie starts with some text on screen about the business of sex slavery, then tells us that they story is based on real events.

We get see a Latin girl kidnapped in a car who manages to escape her captors. Then we meet some alcoholic who has take a trip to meet his wife. There is also a young couple driving around the country. They are deceived into stopping and two criminals kill the guy and kidnap the girl. They tie her up in a room in a house. Meanwhile the alcoholic runs into the Latin girl, who kills a cop by accident. He runs around the night and ends up at the house of the kidnappers who take him to the Sheriff. Meanwhile, the mother of the other kidnapped girl is looking for her, complains to the sheriff, and ends up getting kidnapped herself. It all ends with a good old-fashioned shoot-out. There is a minor but expected twist about who else is a bad guy here and who is not.

While I summarized all the action, all this takes place very slowly, with countless instances of the bad guys verbally abusing the women or threatening them. There's nothing interesting happening or anything that would make you look forward to what will happen next. A major problem are the characters. Apparently the alcoholic is supposed to be the main character but he's an unreliable good-for-nothing. So we can't sympathize with him all that much. Not to mention that he just sort of stumbles in and out of scenes without contributing much to the story. The bad guys do a good job at being bad but aren't interesting either. The girls are usually gagged and we know nothing about them. So there's no character to care for or anything in the story to look forward to. It's all rather dull The movie was filmed in Texas apparently, but with cheap equipment. Night and dark shots are terrible, one can barely see anything. Day shots are good, and the acting is good as well. But I really can't find a reason to recommend this movie.
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