Day 13 -- Blown Away

Released: April 1, 1993

Starring: Corey Haim, Corey Feldman, Nicole Eggert

Writer/Director: Robert C. Cooper/Brenton Spencer

Description: Teenage beauty tries to convince her new boyfriend that her father murdered her mother and that he should die too.

[Review may contain spoilers. Please watch movie before reading, unless you don't care. Most of these films have already been released for a while, so they should be readily available.]

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As you can probably tell, this is not the amazing Jeff Bridges movie of the same name, which was released a year after this "Blown Away". No, this one stars the Coreys, Haim and Feldman that is, and a very hot Nicole Eggert. To call this an erotic thriller would be a stretch. Yes, it's erotic, but it is nowhere near a thriller.

"Blown Away" is your typical femme-fatale movie from the early 90s with the most notable being the Drew Barrymore "classic" "Poison Ivy". And just like the "Poison Ivy" series this movie takes a former popular child star and shows her in a sexier way. To say Eggert did a few nude scenes would be vastly underselling it. The barely over-20 actress at the time, was nude for practically half the movie, including a sex scene with Haim less than 15 minutes in. 

The film's plot, if there's even is one, is your stereotypical revenge/thriller story. Eggert's mother dies from a bomb placed on her car in the beginning, and after seducing Haim like a good femme-fatale, she convinces him to kill her father since she thinks he's the murderer.

Eggert's performance is average. If she wasn't so beautiful, you wouldn't buy that Haim would commit murder for her. She's sexy, but not as sultry as she needs to be. She appears to be more like an angry teen than a conniving seductress.  Even with the big reveal that Feldman, who played Haim's half-brother, and Eggart were in cahoots to take her inheritance by killing her father and Haim, she didn't come off as vindictive.

While watching this movie, I kept thinking that it's a shame that Haim was more into drugs than he was acting. There were actual moments in this and many of his films where you could see that he had actual talent, but it vanished when he began partying too much. Feldman, on the other hand, never had talent.

Honestly, the only reason to see this movie is if you want to see a pre-Baywatch/post-Charles in Charge, Nicole Eggert naked. The movie is generic and the acting is sub-par, with one exception being Kathleen Robinson of "Beverley Hills, 90210" fame, who was solid as jilted lover, Darla.

Rating: 2/10 -- Really, this is for Eggert's breasts because there was nothing else really worth noting in this film.