Joe Lynch directs Salma Hayek, Akie Kotabe and Jennifer Blanc in this independent actioner as a middle-aged sex slave is laid under siege in her apartment full of weapons. 

Everly clearly aspires to be Kill Bill but on Reservoir Dogs’ budget. The one apartment setting evokes Repulsion, the opening gambit of sexual assault as a plot device really should belong to a far less glossy product and Hayek’s performance is strong despite a restrictive script. This kinda experience rises and falls on how it sustains its mania. We receive waves of gun toting hookers, deadly yakuza, sadistic supervillians and easily distracted attack dogs. And that should be enough to overwhelm us over 90 minutes. Sadly pretty much every episodes boils down to a visually stimulating nasty monologuing for just a little too long… while Hayek reaches desperately… for a weapon… if they just shut up and killed her it’d be a shorter film but a far more inspired experience.

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