Violet & Daisy (2013)

Wow! Such a good movie.

Surprisingly incoherent and boring

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Violet (Alexis Bledel) and Daisy (Saoirse Ronan) are a pair of gum chewing teenage hit women dressed as nuns who casually kill bad guys in New York. They take on a new hit to snuff out a mystery man (James Gandolfini) who crossed some villains and seems rather serene to his fate.This encounter to a man who casually awaits his death gives both young women a period of reflection. They are both overgrown girls and also emotionally retarded. They ride to hits on tricycles, jump on beds excitedly to the pop sounds of the latest teen idol and are deadly with a gun. The film does not progress much more than that and gives little depth to their characters and motivations. Rather disappointing as the writer/director wrote the Oscar winning screenplay to Precious.The film is a sub Quentin Tarantino rip off and an out of date one by 15 years. We see scenes of hits replayed from various angles and slow motion. We see people acting wacky giving us wisecracks and talking cute but it never amounts to much. Its just a boring and bad film instead of being hip and cool.Its a shame as James Gandolfini and Marianne Jean-Baptiste do their best to lift this botched film.

this movie has almost it all. it includes friendship, money problem AND killing.. it's not a lame romantic movie, it makes you think and it is beautiful done! you should give it a try. I mean it's about two teenage girls who are not sure what to do with life and they are just trying to get enough money so they can buy some dresses, but when they think that all they have to do is kill someone they're wrong because it's so much more than that... they're about to learn such a big part in life and accepting how things are, try to make the most of the situation. this might not be a movie you'll re-watch but it's really enjoyable and very beautiful done. it's a movie which will leave you not empty, but not full it will leave you thinking.

When you get bored you're likely to watch almost anything. That was me, colder than usual March, and Neflix streaming movies offering me this one. Thing is, I like all the actors ... Ronan, Bledel, Trejo, Gandolfini ... so even if the story was uneven it was enjoyable watching all of them. It sets the tone when we see the two teenagers, dressed in Nun's habits, carrying pizza delivery boxes, and casually chit-chatting about 'girl stuff.' Then they ring a doorbell, and proceed to shoot and kill everyone with the guns hidden in the pizza boxes. Afterwards, with the cops coming, they skip away down the sidewalk as if nothing just happened.They are teen assassins (even though Bledel was 29 during filming, she has a very young face) and now look forward to a break, a vacation. But something happens, popular Barbie Sunday has a new line of clothes and they just have to have new dresses. So they need money and agree to another job.The teens are Saoirse Ronan as Daisy and Alexis Bledel as Violet. Their contact man is always reliable Danny Trejo as Russ. The man they are led to is James Gandolfini as Michael, dying of pancreatic cancer, so when they show up, somewhat expectedly, he is resigned to the whole thing.I am not opposed to good movies about teen assassins, in fact Ronan's 'Hanna', made about the same time and about a young girl who is trained to be an assassin, has become one of my favorites. As is 'The Professional' with a very young Natalie Portman aspiring to be an assassin.But this one never gels for me, the story seems all over the place, and it is strange seeing 'Rory' of 'Gilmore Girls' acting tough and talking dirty. It is an interesting concept but I never was sure what the movie was trying to do.

I had great expectations for this movie. I mean, how could you miss with the great James Gandolfini and wonderful Saoirse Ronan as headliners (and Alexis Bledel is certainly eyeworthy), and yet the first time through this film I did not enjoy the experience. Then it dawned on me, well, duh, this film is intended to be a Tarantino parody, and it went up several stars in my estimation. Of course, making a parody of a QT film is problematic, because Quentin films are already parodies of other genres such as kung fu, grindhouse, and noir. And so, in a sense, the filmmaker is making a parody of a parody. I mean, Saoirse playing patty-cakes with Danny Trejo? The scene is totally Quentinesque to a ludicrous extreme. And that's parody.Other motifs that echo and exaggerate Tarantino's style include the implausible violence sequences that can only exist in some alternate film universe (think Black Mamba single-handedly wiping out a small army of yakuza in "Kill Bill,") and the interminable gabfest that fills out a QT script (these people love to talk and talk and talk)... And so, as a parody of a parody, and for its very impressive cast, this film is worth an amused watch.