Barely Lethal

2015 "Click. Clique. Bang."
5.4| 1h38m| PG-13| en
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A 16-year-old international assassin yearning for a "normal" adolescence fakes her own death and enrolls as a senior in a suburban high school. She quickly learns that being popular can be more painful than getting water-boarded.

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Clevercell Very disappointing...
Rijndri Load of rubbish!!
Mjeteconer Just perfect...
AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
johnblaze-25297 This movie was recommended to me by Netflix at 98%. I cannot stress how much I want to cancel my membership over this. I would rather be waterboarded than watch this movie. The cast is a bunch of allstars, which is the only saving grace of this film, but the script is so terrible. Clearly the goal with this film was to make the most uncomfortable cringe-fest in human history. You can't tell me that wasn't the goal, because that was obviously the goal.
neshasouthport-1 I was pretty excited for this movie when I heard it was coming out soon and watched the trailer. But it seems all the funny and good parts were put in the trailer. So, the movie wasn't "all that" for me. Had a lot of great actors and actresses like Jessica alba and Samuel Jackson.
ryanoaklen The only reason I can think of for all the bad reviews and horrid IMDb rating, is that people went into the film expecting originality, but instead got a cliché movie, but a cliché is only a cliché if it's not used as a cliché.Many times reviewers will condescend harsh critics by saying they didn't understand the movie, and therefor that's the reason they must not have liked it. Don't know about you but I hate to be the recipient of said condescension. However in this case, I think I need to be a hypocrite because I genuinely think many missed the point. This movie was actually brilliant in its own right. Every cliché, every predictable outcome, every ridiculous encounter was all intentionally scripted to be as such, and for that reason it actually made it not just bearable but entertaining to watch. Hailee Steinfeld's character (Megan) is the walking encyclopedia of teen pop culture and she wants to experience every second of it. As expected that experience comes with hard aches and coming of age realities. The fact that each character makes it blatantly obvious of their cliché role in this cliché movie, is somehow anti-cliché, and therefore an extremely fun and well acted family feel-good movie. It's not going to be for everyone, but if you can appreciate a fun perspective on the teen culture genre, you'll enjoy this for what it is. It's not an 8 out of 10 movie, but in its own way and in its respective corner of entertainment, an 8 is well deserved. It's the cliché that isn't a cliché.
Pheeke People don't seem to like this movie and i'm not sure why. yes it's formulaic, yes it's cliché, but I still think it's fun! What can i say, i'm a sucker for girly teen movies.This film is very predictable, but I like that it's a mix between a high school movie and an action/spy movie. there is not a lot of character development but I still liked the characters and I understood their motives. Samuel L. Jackson's was hilarious as Hardman and Hailee Steinfeld was well cast as the main character Megan Walsh.For me there where laugh-out-loud moments, I think the movie had a great sense of humour that made it upbeat and witty.This movie was charming and a ton of fun. I certainly see why people would think its dumb or even stupid because of its formulaic nature, but i liked it. A feel-good movie that is very charming and entertaining.