A Proper Violence

That it eventually - if barely - succeeds is due more to the resilience of its actors than to the discipline of its makers.

Scrappy college-age filmmakers Chris Faulisi and Matt Robinson do a commendable job of establishing tone and tension in their debut feature, but things fall apart when words and feelings start to flow.

Weakly developed characters, a lack of substantive tension and an ending that's more startling than sound round out the minuses of this earnestly motivated but undercooked morality tale.

There's absolutely no fresh perspective here; just more juiceless samplings of what's already been cooked to death.