CinemaNow - Angel Blue

This is a raw and edgy movie that lends visceral emotions to almost every scene. The plotline about an older, married man having affair with a teenaged girl is the background. But the foreground is filled with erotic energy, violence, and the stigmata of the small town when everyone discovers the affair. Cap all of this off with a racial divide that surfaces when the local officers refuse to help because Angel and her family are Latino. The filmography is edgy and the violent scenes are so real you'd swear this was a snuff film. The scene where Dennis and Angel are going at it in the bathroom definitely brings this film on the same level as Lolita, but on a smaller budget. Dennis seems so much like a generic good guy and respectable townperson that you really witness his downfall when the rest of the town turns against him. Angel is so sweet and innocent that you wonder whether she is truly aware of the web of complexity spinning around her. You really question whether she got a chance to grow up. Or did she become sucked into the tragedies waiting for her around the corner in her naive desire to be recognized and treated as an adult? This movie is a coming-of-age film, and for those as old as Dennis, it's about never knowing what will happen to you despite being older and supposedly wiser. Is Dennis in love with this teenage girl? The questions are never answered and the movie lets the viewer make the judgment call. And like all good movies, it presents the facts to you and never supports any particular conclusion. Life is simply too complex to be black and white. The storyline has been done to death a million times, but you should watch it for the visceral emotions depicted in each tragedy. As life goes, lots of things happen in your backyard, but a great movie allows you to escape and walk in someone else's shoes.

Good message,however...it was too drawn out and too questionable on why a new mother would get a sitter in which she has never met before in addition, had to ask if she ever sat before.Way too slow and predictable.

it was very intriguing it had drama,suspenceand passion

what a joke of a movie.. pitiful.. put me to sleep.. waste of time.. monies to EVEN make the movie let alone have anyone view it..

Poor acting, ok script, didn't seem real.

pretty unrealistic.A man who betrays his wife and child, an irresponsible creep who sees nothing wrong with breaking up his own family and wants to break up Angel's family, too.The moral of the story could be responsibility and what it means to be grown up, but it's more a plodding travesty.Avoid.

It was an alright movie but Ive seen better

All the characters annoyed me.I wanted all of them to get killed.But I did sit through the whole thing so I have to give it at least one star -- though the fact that I sat through it all is probably more a comment on my sad, sad life.

pretty good flick;

this movie is about a 14 year old girl who is in love with a like 35 or 40 year old man. in the end the whole town findsoutabout them.

what a piece of garbage this movie was. but heck it was free viewing

This movie did not turn out the way it looked like it would. It didn't try to be just a morality play; which was very nearly a surprise.

reasonably engaging but didnt get the ending...

compelling story of the seduction of an older mentor and a young woman in want of her own life.

Forbiden love due to the age of one; yet when compared to so many other stories, this one was made pretty well. The older of the two later got it right.

It was a decent movie. The main character annoyed me beyond everything though!

Very good movie!

This was a very good film.

very good