100 Girls (2000)

Written by Gimly on June 21, 2017

If your the sort of person who won't enjoy a thing because it is "problematic" then I'd recommend giving 100 Girls a wide, wide berth.

If that's not an apt description of your tastes, then I'd... Probably still recommend you miss 100 Girls. Even if you don't take into account the film's bizarre level of obsession with gender dichotomy, the saccharine moments of "heroism" that are at best dated and at worst genuinely damaging, and even if you discounted the weird, uncomfortable roles characters' relationships take, then all you're left with is a bland, hackneyed plot without any real character development and a massive disconnect between message and arc.

I'm not saying that 100 Girls could never have worked (although for some viewers I'm sure that will be the case), I'm just saying it doesn't.