Is it her extremely high cortisol level that makes young Lindy a rage monster ready to slam a kid’s face into a piece of cake after he jumps his turn? Or did a rage-fueled adolescence under the rocky guardianship of a drug-addled mother and alcoholic father make it so said cortisol became extremely high? I don’t think screenwriter Scott Wascha cares which is which as long as his fast-paced, Susan Sarandon-narrated prologue montage can let us know an adult Lindy (Kate Beckinsale) is too uncontrollable for even the military to utilize her laundry list of skills. She’s tried as many physically punishing and brutally violent activities as possible to curb her aggression. Turns out only one thing consistently works: self-administered electrical shocks.
Director Tanya Wexler’s aptly named Jolt picks up right when this new therapy arrives. Lindy’s psychiatrist (Stanley Tucci’s Dr. Munchin) knows...
Director Tanya Wexler’s aptly named Jolt picks up right when this new therapy arrives. Lindy’s psychiatrist (Stanley Tucci’s Dr. Munchin) knows...
- 7/22/2021
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
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