Review: Nasty and slick thriller Becky reinvents the sitcom-safe Kevin James to tremendous effect

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Nasty and slick thriller Becky reinvents the sitcom-safe Kevin James to tremendous effect GlobeArts

, etc. Instead, James embraces the pure, cold-blooded villain here, playing a vicious escaped con who terrorizes an inventive 13-year-old girl in the woods of Ontario. Sporting a swastika tattoo on his head and a beard so thick it could smother a lesser man to death, James is terrifyingly convincing as a murderous maniac, completely erasing any memories you might have of the erstwhile.

Enjoyably vulgar, too, is the co-direction by Jonathan Milott and Cary Murnion, who have messed around with genre outrageousness before in the half-bakedis economical, tightly wound, and entirely conscious of its sick, violent soul . At no point does the film pretend to be anything other than a nasty little piece of immoral mayhem – and when such ambitions match execution, well, that’s a beautifully disgusting thing.

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