By Emilio Frenk.
Director: Max Winkler
Cast: Zoey Deutch, Kathryn Hahn, Tim Heldecker, Joey Morgan, Dylan Gelula, Maya Eshet, Eric Edelstein, Romy Byrne and Adam Scott.
Rating: Average.
Max Winkler, director of “Ceremony” brings “Flower”, his second feature film and it could have had a better result.
The movie centers in Erica (Zoey Deutch) a troubled teenage girl that with her friends like to blackmail people for a living. One day her life will change when he meets her stepbrother Luke (Joey Morgan).
Both of them will eventually bond but Erica´s life will suffer another turning point when Luke see´s Will (Adam Scott) a teacher who Luke claims that he sexually harassed him when he was younger.
Now Erica will try to help his stepbrother on setting up Will by becoming vigilantes and making him pay for his actions.
“Flower” is a movie that does have an interesting premise but for moments I felt that the movie was sloppy.
This was in part of the direction of Max Winkler, which led to some moments of the film that didn´t make any sense and were over the top. I felt the film by moments was slow and the characters honestly they were annoying as hell.
In terms of screenplay the film has good and hadinteresting moments. I liked how Alex McAulay, Max Winkler and Matt Spicer crafted the story and I like the connection that Erica and Luke form at the beginning. I felt that in the third act saw a homage in films like “The Sugarland Express” and by moments “Bonnie and Clyde”. It was a nice try but unfortunately didn´t work, which resulted in a ridiculous ending.
Zoey Deutch gives by her one of her best performances of her young career and I feel that if she goes in this path she will go even further.
I do see in Max Winkler as a young filmmaker that is very skilled and talented. He has the age to prove it and I hope he can learn from his mistakes from his previous work, including this one.
There is no doubt that “Flower” had the potential to be a very good film but I felt that it needed more work and the result is what was shown on screen.
“Flower” is a film that does entertain from a standup but the only reason that I can barely recommend it is for the performance of Zoey Deutch and for some of the funny moments this movie has.