#EM3 (Eenie Meenie Miney Moe) (review)

Review by Michelle Delsante

#EM3 or Eenie Meenie Miney Moe is a flick about drugs, sex & money; lots and lots of drugs, sex & money.

I wish the money was real so they could have spent it on a more experienced cast. The male roles seemed to be pretty much on key, the women…ehh. Although beautiful, their acting could be improved. It was shot very well and kept up a fast pace, but you really need to pay attention or it will definitely lose you.

The concept is pretty cool: little fish in a big pond offered an opportunity to turn into the predator. Raul (Andres Dominguez) was well cast, and I thought when he was being more human and less actor, he did well.

But during the times when he was pressed to act, his performance was very unrealistic. He showed great emotion, but his words were spoken without conviction.

Nikki (Belkys Galvez), what can I say…adorable, but no skill playing ANY scene. Ivan was my favorite because he is such a fool.

The movie, as a whole, was not bad.

Not one to buy or see in a theatre, but a rental of 2 bucks or less, sure.

Here’s my breakdown…

Dude and his girl split because the self proclaimed “bad boy” didn’t care for her friend’s “college boy” boyfriends. Guy picks him up and offers him a job with a tow truck company…not legit, but basically boosting cars for their content and leaving them around Miami for the chop shops to grab and go. He finds many treasures; guns, money, goods and, of course, drugs (Because apparently everyone in Miami is a drug lord?). After his discoveries, he distributes the “gifts” throughout the city to random people (valets, pizza dudes, club owners).

 He also has a female he “works” with as a distribution center. There, he meets a girl (Nikki). So sex, drugs and boosting go on and on and on, side stories ensue where a club owner is screwing a 15 year old girl, Ivan is a pathological liar and insists he will be a member of the Russian mob. He has two boys that follow him everywhere and believe his bullshit.

The 15 year old’s brother finds out about her antics with the club owner because she stole his money. So, he goes to kill her and the club dude. Raul stops him. Raul gets a big score with bags of “E2,” which is apparently ecstasy. Everyone takes it and, uh oh…it is basically cyanide, not fun drugs.

Now here is MY personal favorite part…Everybody dies. This scene is made up of a pretty great series of shots. Raul tries calling Nikki to warn her, because you know the dummy took the E2. Ta-da, he finds her and tries to get her to a hospital, but doesn’t make it; Nikki dies in the tow truck. Raul drives her to the ocean, because earlier in the flick, she revealed that she wanted to be a mermaid. Hmmmm. He carries her to the water and dumps her body in the sea *eye roll* The guilt gets him and he pulls his money out of his pocket to throw on the beach.

Finds a pill, takes it, cut to black. Movie over.

Ok, all in all not a terrible flick, they really needed to choose one type of music. It ranged so much from hip hop to Spanish to opera…it was all over the place. And the terrible, ridiculous, annoying “video game” mantra that is portrayed when Raul is boosting is insane.