Violet & Daisy 2011

    Daisy is now eighteen years old and formerly she was considered a minor.  Violet is worried that Daisy can be tried as an adult for crimes committed in their job as hit women.  They wear nun habits to take out a group of men on one of their jobs.  They want a vacation, they want to buy expensive dresses and they decide not to take their next job.  They change their minds and they realize they need the money.  They are sent to do a hit on Michael.   He’s a thief who dared to steal from a criminal kingpin.  Nothing goes as they planned on this hit?  He is asleep, then they fall asleep and he makes them cookies.  They especially like the cookies and wonder if he can also make brownies.

     There is something OFF about this movie, like it’s not real and just pages from a comic book?  Would two young women both just over eighteen, be hired as killers for gangsters?  The material is thin and weak for all the actors.  2 ½* (This movie is so-so)

88 min, Action directed by Geoffrey Fletcher with Saoirse Ronan, Alexis Bledel, James Gandolfini, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Danny Trejo, Tatiana Maslany, Cassidy Hinkle, Lynda Gravatt, Cody Horn, John Vetigmiglia.

Note:  Imdb 6.1 out of 10, 22% critic 33% audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Roger Ebert 2*, Metacritic 43 out of 100 with 16 critics 6.9 with 34 reviews.

Special Note:  Filmed in Bronx, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Central Park, Manhattan, New York City, New York.  Geoffrey S. Fletcher said that Pulp Fiction, Superbad and Thelma and Louise were influences for this film.   Geoffrey’s brother Alphonse managed a hedge fun that filed for bankruptcy and $8 million from the fund went to produce this film.  Unfortunately, this is  one of the last acting roles for James Gandolfini and he passed away June 19, 2013.  Carey Mulligan was cast as Violet but she decided to take a role in Drive of 2011 instead.  Bruce Willis was considered for the role played by James Gandolfini.  Saoirse Ronan also played a teenage assassin in Hanna of 2011.  Her character in How I Live Now of 2013 was also named Daisy.  Violet & Daisy was filmed in 2010 but not released in theaters until 2013.