Crush-2013

Director Malik Bader

Starring Lucas Till

Scott’s Review #87

Reviewed July 2, 2014

Grade: C-

Crush (2013) tells a story told since almost the beginning of cinematic history: that of the stalker.

It’s a teen stalker film similar to Swimfan (2002) and The Roommate (2011), which I admit I’ve seen and enjoyed as guilty pleasures.

A teen soccer jock injures his knee and decides to break up with his girlfriend to focus on rehab. From there, someone begins stalking him and leaving secret admirer notes.

Several red herrings ensue, and the final thirty minutes contain a twist that, unfortunately, if you bother to look at the cover art on the DVD, reveals the stalker.

This particular genre is a guilty pleasure of mine, so it’s tough to be completely objective.

On the surface, Crush is a terrible movie- it is by the numbers with no character development, but just plain old fun.

I suppose it is loosely a remake of the Alicia Silverstone film from the 1990s.

In any event, the appeal (good or bad) is that the filmmakers played this film seriously instead of fessing up to a poor script and playing it for laughs.

The acting is awful, the teen outcasts look like they could easily be the popular kids and were made up to appear nerdy, and the film has a Hallmark television movie-of-the-week badness.

But in a goofy, trashy way, I enjoyed Crush (2013).