Radioflash

A heroine as strong as Reese deserves a more consistently exciting plot.

In truth, this "Deliverance"-style clash between Reese, a savvy teenager, and a passel of backwoods archetypes is only marginally more thrilling than the average wine tasting.

The result is an offbeat conceptual mixture, albeit one that's somewhat frustrating and occasionally tedious, if beautifully photographed by Austin Schmidt.

The film is still little more than an attempt as it only scratches the surfaces of the issue it wants to dive into.

You just want to be immersed in any aspect of the film. Instead, we're given a boatload of lackluster moments with superfluous dialogue and trace amounts of danger.

Nancy Drew meets the apocalypse in this mild-mannered coming of age road trip.

Inept post-EMP survival thriller is no more thrilling than it is plausible, and inexcusably casts its resourceful teen heroine as a victim constantly at the mercy of others and in need of rescuing.

Radioflash is a film at war with its own ideas, its central themes in conflict with one another and its plot spiralling out in complexity as film progresses.

The pacing feels sluggish in some places, and jumpy in others, which doesn't give Sharbino's Reese an honest chance to earn her action-hero conclusion.

Radioflash is less a cohesive story than it is a series of ideas cobbled together.