Derrick Gibbons
An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.
Rosie Searle
It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.
Billy Ollie
Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
Desertman84
Former child actress Mackenzie Vega portrays as Sam Gleason,a High School cheerleader who was gang-raped, in this TV movie entitled "The Assault".Gary Weeks co-stars with Vega as the Sam's supportive father Dan together with Khandi Alexander as Detective Jodi Miller who was assigned to investigate the rape case in this television film directed by Jason Winn.Pretty cheerleader Sam got drunk one night after breaking up with her boyfriend footballer Reed.Unfortunately,the rest of the football team took advantage of her drunkenness after Reed left and brought her to a room to rape her.This led to Sam into committing almost committing suicide.After she was hospitalized,Sam,Gary and her friends started to investigate what occurred that night through the collection of data gathered from social media to assist Detective Jodi Miller to bring down the people responsible for it.While it was evident that we are treated to a typical and predictable story having a theme about rape,the performances somehow raised it into becoming a better-than-your average TV movie.Mackenzie Vega did well in her portrayal as Sam as she gets to emote very well from the hurt and trauma that she experienced from getting rape until her determination to bring down the guilty people when no one among the members of the football team and the cheerleaders would talk.It was interesting how the gathering of social media was used.That element of the story provided interest in the story.Finally,one would get treated to an above average Lifetime TV movie having rape themes.
Geeky Randy
Lifetime Movie inspired by the 2012 Steubenville High School rape case. Cheerleader Vega attempts suicide by self-immolation, setting into motion events that could make the community's beloved football team accountable for a very serious crime. Very dramatic for the better. Still, way too cookie-cutter in terms of structure, and the story unravels more like a mystery/thriller than a drama with something important to say. There's also the need to explain too much, indicating an underestimation of the viewer. Khandi Alexander is memorable as Detective Jodi Miller. Buckner's first role in seven years. Good if you have nothing better to do.**½ (out of four)
edwagreen
Forever predictable film where high school jocks go wild after a game and gang rape a high school cheerleader who had just broken up with her boyfriend.The girl was very much drunk when the crime was committed so who in heaven's name is going to believe her?The girl's widowed father seems to be sedate during this whole affair until there is definite proof of what has occurred.I know that we have technology and blogs to show what is occurring, and yet more and more of these tapes keep appearing throughout the film.Film proves that guys can't get whatever they want and that coincidentally the high school coach's sister is investigating the case and will not give her brother any slack for essentially claiming that young guys shall be young guys.
John Doe
This was one of the funniest films I've seen in a while. It had everything one would expect from and love about a Lifetime movie: lead actors who can barely emote, terrible dialogue that oftentimes makes no sense, a heavy handed message that they hit you with harder than a football player hits his wife, homoerotic and incestuous undertones, misunderstandings of technological innovations, and I could go on and on about the great features of this film. It starts with the lead character (let's call her Cheerleader, who can remember the names of these people?) setting herself on fire at a football game and it just gets better from there. At the hospital the doctor tells us she was "sexually assaulted" which we can all tell means she was brutally gangraped by the whole football team. Eventually Cheerleader becomes BFFs BleachBlondDyke and they start sleeping together and they work with HeroicBlackPolicewoman to solve the case and everybody lives happily ever after. And it ended with a blatant lie of a statistic which is always fun.
