Movie Review: Meeting Evil

"When John Fleton (Luke Wilson), a depressed suburban family man and recently fired realtor, offers to help a stranger, Richie (Samuel Jackson), with his car, John is sucked into a surreal, nightmarish murder spree that forces him to question everything about his life, his mode of behavior, and the very nature of evil."

Samuel Jackson as Richie

Starring:

• Samuel Jackson
• Luke Wilson

Director:

• Chris Fischer

If you thought this was a cerebral thriller, you were wrong. It gets a 1 star from every critic and even audiences didn't like it. Samuel Jackson obviously is trying to pad his paycheck by doing these horrible films.

On the one hand it is good to see a Black person as the villain, with intelligence and more to him than just shooting and cursing, however Samuel Jackson has only one setting for his acting, shooting and cursing.

Luke Wilson as John

The film pretends it's a psychological thriller, but it ends up being nothing more than a hired killer turned good guy, turned bad guy, turned good guy. And, of course in the end the white people turn on the Black guy, even in the face of the Black guy revealing that the truly guilty person is the white woman. And the only other Black person in the movie ends up killing him. That's what Hollywood wants to beat into our brains: Black on Black crime.

Oh and there is a scene straight out of gone with the wind, where the white woman Joanie (Leslie Bibb), the wife, is flanked by her children and tells off the negro she-cop Latisha (Tracie Thoms). Subconsciously it says "the white woman put the nigger woman in her place", once again. The irony is that the audience is mislead into rooting for the white woman, but we are later shamed because the truly evil person in the movie is this same white woman.

Leslie Bibb as Joanie

The scene was unnecessary and lent nothing to the movie. It did not lead to anything else following it. It was simply put in the movie to hammer home the idea and visual that the 90lb white woman put a nigger in her place, even though she was a police officer.

The entire movie is formulaic and as a Black man, we are still subconsciously put in our place. You cannot just have the killer, happen to be Black. The racial undertones were blatant and obvious: nigger stay in your place. But, then again, that is nearly every Hollywood movie, isn't it?

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Jasmine Fiore Swimsuit Model Mysterious Death

Jasmine Fiore Swimsuit Model

When I was in law school there was one particular subject I hated: Family Law. I hated it because I had to read case after case of brutal treatment of children or spouses. I didn't even dare read any criminal law cases. I don't know how I got through those classes.

Here we have the horrific story of a swimsuit beauty model, Jasmine fiore, who also used to worked for Playboy, as the coordinator for Playboy's "Girls of Golf." Spokeswoman Theresa Hennessey said, "She never posed in the magazine." She was found under mysterious circumstances and someone didn't want her identified. They removed her fingers and teeth. They stuffed her body in a suitcase and threw it in the trash. She was found in the Buena Park, Orange county, California on Saturday, August 15th. She was 28.

Ryan Alexander Jenkins Megan Wants a Millionaire

The only suspect they have on record as of now is husband Ryan Jenkins, who incidentally called to report her missing. He then disappeared and has yet to be found. Fiore was last seen alive with Jenkins at a poker game in San Diego.

Ryan Alexander Jenkins is Canadian and recently appeared on the reality T.V. show "Megan Wants a Millionaire," where he battle for the affection of blond model Megan Hauserman. Fiore and Jenkins met in March at a Las Vegas casino where Jenkins was partying after wrapping up "Millionaire," said Fiore's mother, Lisa Lepore. And in typical Las Vegas fashion, they got married there on March 18, according to a Clark County marriage certificate. It was a spontaneous marriage, "right after they met, one of those wild things," Lepore said. But it soon went south. In May, "they had a big blowout. She had the marriage annulled," she said. "She didn't trust him because he was doing things behind her back," she said. "He did everything that she asked him not to do," Lepore said. "She got furious."

The Orange County district attorney's office has charged Jenkins with murder and issued a warrant for his arrest. Jenkins, 32, is believed to be in Canada, and officers there said Thursday that ground, air and canine units are searching for him. A car and empty boat trailer belonging to Jenkins were found Wednesday at a marina in the northwest Washington town of Blaine, near the border.

Ryan Jenkins, is from Calgary, Alberta. A resume posted on the networking site LinkedIn.com says he graduated from Mount Royal College in Calgary in 1999, has a license to fly commercial airplanes and worked in investment sales and as president of a boutique development company focused on cutting-edge green technologies. Jenkins was convicted of assault in Canada in 2007 and has a pending domestic battery case in Las Vegas. In January 2007, Jenkins was sentenced to 15 months of probation in his hometown of Calgary, Canada, on an unspecified assault charge, according to the Alberta Ministry of Justice. No further details were available. Court records show Jenkins was charged in June in Clark County, Nev., with a misdemeanor count of "battery constituting domestic violence" on accusations that he hit Fiore in the arm. He is scheduled for a Dec. 18 non-jury trial.

Gwendolyn Beauregard of Bonny Doon, a longtime friend to Jasmine Fiore, is scheduled to discuss the case on Larry King Live and Good Morning America.

In my opinion this is a classic case of marrying someone you don't know. Yes, I know there's the romantic notion that you can go to Vegas and marry someone that you've known all your life but was forbidden to, but often you hear of those cases of "we were drunk and one thing led to another..." She obviously didn't know him. And, he obviously didn't know her.

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