Barely Lethal (2015) Greenlighted 'way too early...

Ideas that don't meet their potential are the bete noire of film reviews. In theory every movie that has ever been made could potentially have benefited from one more rewrite, one more tweak, before going before the cameras.

And then there is this film. Arguably the "poster child" for scripts that weren't quite ready for primetime. The irony is that the idea is rock-solid; and, even more ironic, something Hollywood (A-List Hollywood, not backlot Hollywood) had seemingly missed.

I am betting the logline for this was something like "Trained teen female killer ready for anything ... except High School," or something close.

Totally agree with earlier reviewers that every possible chance for getting a scene right was wrecked or ruined in favor of bad dialog and shaky acting.

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