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Shock to the System

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Shock to the System reviews
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Crime  |  Foreign

Written by: Ron McGee

Directed by: Ron Oliver

Release Date:
Theatrical: August 4, 2006
DVD: February 13, 2007

Running Time: 91 minutes, Color

Origin: Canada

Summary

RATING: R for some sexual content, nudity, language and a violent image

Starring Chad Allen, Sebastian Spence, Morgan Fairchild, Michael Woods, and Nelson Wong

When hard boiled private eye Donald Strachey (Allen) finds his latest client dead, an apparent suicide, Albany's favorite gay detective smells a rat and decides to take matters into his own hands. (Regent Entertainment)

What The Critics Said

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70

Variety Robert Koehler

Enough action, a tiny pinch of sex and some campy moments from Morgan Fairchild.

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63

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

The story delivers enough twists and turns to be engaging without feeling like work, and the overall vibe is dangerous and flirty rather than brutal or excessively graphic.

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60

The New York Times Nathan Lee

A sly, refreshingly grown-up gay entertainment, though rather less satisfying as a thriller.

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50

Village Voice Jim Ridley

Director Ron Oliver applies a thin veneer of straight-to-cable pseudo-gloss without finding a workable tone, and the cast lacks the charisma and chemistry to make the genre and gender-bending register as more than novelty.

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50

Los Angeles Times Michael OrdoƱa

So grimly determined to be even-handed that it never generates tension.

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40

The Hollywood Reporter Frank Scheck

Shock to the System demonstrates that merely subverting genre conventions doesn't quite make for compelling entertainment.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 4.5 (out of 10) based on 2 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

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