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- 2006
- R
- Regent Releasing
- 1 h 31 m
- 2006
- R
- Regent Releasing
- 1 h 31 m
Summary 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)
Directed By: Ron Oliver
Written By: Richard Stevenson, Ron McGee
- 2006
- R
- Regent Releasing
- 1 h 31 m
- 2006
- R
- Regent Releasing
- 1 h 31 m
Shock to the System
54
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Summary 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)
Directed By: Ron Oliver
Written By: Richard Stevenson, Ron McGee
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Mixed or Average
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
54
33% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
67% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
0% Negative
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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.
A sly, refreshingly grown-up gay entertainment, though rather less satisfying as a thriller.
So grimly determined to be even-handed that it never generates tension.
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.
Shock to the System demonstrates that merely subverting genre conventions doesn't quite make for compelling entertainment.
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