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  Review by Esteban Gonzalez ½ 5

  “You betrayed me. You will die in that room tonight.”

  It’s been a while since I’ve given a film a half star rating because I usually find some positive thing to say, but Joe Lynch’s latest movie has broken the streak. I didn’t find one redeemable quality in Everly and it’s going to be very hard for me to find another film that I could despise as much as this one. The violence in this film is disturbing and gratuitous. The screenplay, which I’m surprised to hear was in the 2010 Blacklist for most liked unmade script, is insane. The story centers on Salma Hayek’s character, Everly, who from the opening scene of the movie is facing off gangsters and…

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  Review by King #adoptdontshop ★★★

  Salma Hayek Pinault is a one woman wonder in action film Everly, where she plays a kidnapped prostitute defending herself against a gang after betraying their boss. Hayek is always dependable in the acting department but she also exceeded expectations in bloody action stunts. The first arc is quick, resourceful and utilized the single setting with non-stop gun firing bonanza.

  However, the appeal washed out upon the latter half even with emotional stakes to roll. Director Joe Lynch depended on piling body count, loud noises, and mild whiff of kink to please viewers but Everly ended up as just another ill-fashioned sketch of fetishized misogyny. Overall, Everly can be an agile escapist movie but one that doesn’t warrant a rewatch.

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  Review by Dylan van Frankfoort ★★★½ 2

  A back-tatted Salma Hayek telling Yakuza dudes that they can "lick her balls" and Michael Corleone'ing them with an upper-decked toilet gun is a beat I can dance to. Makes good use of the single setting, with Hayek constantly maneuvering around the space to get the drop on a coterie of killers trying to subdue her while they wait for the big bad to arrive. The budget shows here and there, but for every implied death offscreen, there's a guy getting split in half with a katana, or pooping his guts out because he was force-fed acid. Like in Joe Lynch's similarly contained bloodbath Mayhem, there's also some good chemistry between characters. Hayek strikes up a surprisingly sweet rapport with…

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  Review by Waldo ★★★★½ 2

  First great grindhouse motherfucker of the year. Salma is terrible but at the same time gives herself over to the role admirably. Salma has a price on her head and she shoots it out with Yakuza fuckers and high priced hookers. Joe Lynch's intense direction and energy is pure adrenaline. I think it's his best film to date. It's one of those one location action films that it's never boring and keeps surprising us as it heads down to a balls to the wall action finale. Some standout scenes involving an elevator and grotesque scenes of wild action with dark humor. For sonsofbitches lovers of genre shit only. Oh, and there's a nod to Riki-Oh!

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  Review by Helen_S ★★★½ 2

  I'm not usually into films that is just action from start to finish, but I had great fun with this, squish, bang, knife, splat. Loved the Christmas Carols over the initial carnage, ha!

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  Review by Rob Hill ★½

  What a weird combination of a film. Part dead serious drama (e.g. threats of putting a little girl into rape-based prostitution). Part torture porn (not my microgenre, but I can tolerate the better entries). Part... intentionally silly action scenes?

  Who the fuck greenlit this?

  Seriously, action scenes borrowed from Big Trouble in Little China alternate with a cancer-serious Salma Hayek screaming about protecting her daughter.

  This sucks.

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  Review by Keith ★★★★

  Any movie that features Salma Hayek uttering the line "Tell him he can lick my balls" is a winner in my book.

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  Review by Even_Steven ★★★

  Salma Hayek plays Everly, a woman trapped in her own apartment while she is hunted by a horde of different assassins and armed people .. And that's about it! We are told why she is the target of so many but in a film with so much gun play, violent scenes and parts where it feels ripped from a video game none of it really matters! Don't watch such a film expecting too much of a plot .. Better to just turn your brain off and enjoy the body count.

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  Review by Lebowskidoo 🇨🇦 🎬 🍿 ★★★★½ 1

  "A sanctuary sometimes resides in the eye of the storm."

  Everly (Salma Hayek) is being held prisoner as a sex slave by a nasty Japanese crime boss. She must fight her way through his enforcers and out of her apartment building to save herself and her family.

  Everly is a stylish, but highly implausible, action thriller bloodbath. It almost reaches cartoonish levels at times. Someone's obviously been studying the works of Tarantino. That's fine by me, this was a wild ride, and I enjoyed it. I guess I prefer my violence to be over-the-top and less realistic.

  Salma Hayek kicks so much ass I thought she'd break her foot off! This was a great showcase for her. She's in every…

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  Review by More_Badass ★★★

  Everly seems to be either a “burn it with fire” movie or a “that was pretty entertaining” movie, going by the ratings here. I ended up in the latter camp: that was some highly-entertaining and trashy action-exploitation havoc!

  Joe Lynch outrageously escalates the single-apartment single-night mayhem until we’re in dark comedy territory by the clean-up montage and in pulpy grindhouse nonsense by the time Sadist Squad arrives. A damn strong case for Salma Hayek, action star; she should be kicking ass alongside John Wick. Elevator death-trap, playing fetch, big sais and bigger shotguns, sixth-floor war zone, a few gallons of the red stuff: Everly is undoubtedly rough, messy, and questionable in the story department, but Salma radiating zero-fucks charisma while slaughtering waves of increasingly OTT killers is a good time.

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  Review by matt lynch ★½ 2

  marginally less terrible than most Robert Rodriguez bullshit.

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  Review by Sofa Sinema ★★★

  A post Tarantino/Rodriguez grindhouse camp effort that is slickly enjoyable for a late night watch. The little girl playing Salma's daughter was cute without being annoying or unconvincing. Hayek herself still has a fetching body and her curves should be considered lethal weapons. She might have managed a minor action career if she'd chosen to fully embrace that path twenty years ago.