Pretty Thing review: 50 Shades goes horribly wrong in this half baked story starring Alicia Silverstone

Pretty Thing is all sensual and hot until it lives out every woman’s worst nightmare. Here’s why!

Pretty Thing review: We’ve loved movies like 50 Shades of Grey or 365 Days where sex pretty much carries the entire film. Similarly, Justin Kelly’s Pretty Thing has no strings attached sex on the forefront of it all. It begins with Sophie (Alicia Silverstone) eyeing a waiter, Elliot (Karl Glusman) at a posh hotel in Manhattan and the two spend the night together. The next thing you know, she takes him to Paris just for an intimate night with him again and before he can even process all of this, it becomes a thing the two look forward to.

Sophie has things clear from the start. She's in it just for the sex. It's never said out loud but when she starts making out with him as soon as he reaches Paris or literally on the side of the road, it's pretty understood! When you think about it, it’s actually badass that for once a woman is calling the shots and acting like Christian Grey’s long lost cousin. She’s loaded, she dresses well and she knows exactly what she wants out of a man. It all feels like the dream scenario until it really isn’t. When Sophie loses interest in hooking up with him, Elliot takes rejection to heart and cannot accept the fact that his little fantasy life has all come crashing down suddenly. Here’s where the plot thickens and he starts stalking her to the point where it starts getting ridiculously scary. 

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With eerie background music creeping up on us throughout the film, Pretty Thing is every woman’s nightmare. But while there’s a good premise for it to be a suspenseful thriller, it simply does not make a lasting impression on you because of its casual and slow approach to the story. It fails to build tension and neither of the characters are fleshed out enough to carry the weight of a film like this! The intimate scenes are shot well in a way that it lets Sophie’s desire for lust and loving her body translate on-screen. But due to subpar acting and a weak script, it simply isn’t enough to overlook all the misses! Pretty Thing is a forgettable one time watch at best as there’s plenty and more to binge in this genre!

Pretty Thing is currently streaming on Lionsgate Play!

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