I suppose it is a good thing that "The Girl from the Naked Eye" saw the light of day. Jason Yee was an acclaimed martial artist who wanted to make it in movies, so producing your own screenplay seems like a good idea. It is what I am doing with "Maine Event of the Dead" my low budget, pro-wrestling zom-com (feel free to request a treatment by emailing russthebus07@gmail.com), so I cannot discourage this approach to fame. Too bad I lack the wrestling acclaim (thanks mental illness and other people's drug addiction [I wonder how I screwed up not getting the junkies' leader's profile to stay up when I moved everything from GoDaddy to Hostgator...or did the new server frown on pooplist.html]).
One think my film will wisely lack is having a production company with the word digital get a title card before the picture. It just screams, yes this is done on the very cheap. Then again, I am not trying to hide the thrifty nature of my flick, so Bentlight Digital, email me at russthebus07@gmail.com if you want another project to get behind.
The Girl from the Naked Eye
Jake is a degenerate gambler whose best quality is his ability to kick ass. This leads to Simon, the owner of The Naked Eye strip club, offering him a job as a driver/enforcer for his side business, pimping. It was nothing more than a job to Jake until he started driving Sandy around. Both frustrated about ending up in this underworld, they were just happy to know that someone else knows it should not be that way. Sadly, Sandy wants more from Jake, but he is too uncomfortable with her under aged status to provide it. And sadly, her desires have just led to her demise.
How could this has happened? Who would have done this? Jake is a man on a mission to solve this murder and avenge the woman he spurned only to fail in protecting.
"The Girl from the Naked Eye" does not disappoint the viewer until about 20 minutes in when the only actress featured on the DVD only has one scene. After the critical success of Steven Soderbergh's "The Girlfriend Experience," I really wanted to see what former porn actress Sasha Grey would offer as a traditional actress in a standard narrative. This film did not provide her that opportunity. So now, I am going to have to download her musical collaboration with industrial legend Pig to make sure she is not destined to be an after thought.
Please pardon that rant because this film is quite inoffensive. The story is immediately forgettable even for someone like myself who has been traumatized by the unrequited love of an adult entertainer who died to soon. It serves as a great reel for Jason Yee action star capabilities, there are some well-shot fight scenes which makes you less harsh in regards to generally unenthused acting and the special effects show a lot of potential. You will see the comic book aesthetic they were going for right out the gate, so being a short flick, you are going to stick around to see if something good will come from it.
This film had a chance to be a new take on Robert Rodriguez's "Sin City" style, but it does not double down on what they make attempts at doing. That could be a budget issue, but without that dressing, all "The Girl from the Naked Eye" is a warm up for whatever softcore porn will be ran on Cinemax or Showtime. With the Internet, do you really want to stay up that late anymore?
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