Perhaps I would not be so peeved at how bad Meredith Alloway's Forbidden Fruits really is if the Rotten Tomatoes score didn't gift it with a whopping 76%. Imagine something similar to 1996's The Craft - which was no masterpiece, by the way - but worse. And not just a little. Much, much worse.
But I digress.
The four heroines in Forbidden Fruits are flat as characters. They're egotistical, and - considering this is marketed as a dark comedy - grossly unfunny. They speak like poorly written archetypes of film school screenwriter hacks, and occupy a plot so thin and dull it's difficult to sit through it. When you add the flat visual element - movie's cinematography resembles an early 2000s direct-to-Cinemax far - the result is a toothache, sans novacaine. My one confession: I didn't even make it to the end. I dare you to.
1/2 ☆
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