Review of God's Little Acre

This has to be one of the worst movies ever made. The overacting is constant, and the characters aren't the least bit realistic for the setting. I expect a certain amount of melodrama in the older pictures; but this one will make you shake your head. The whole story, at least as it's portrayed in the movie, is contrived and absurd. The accents aren't even remotely accurate, except of course where the actors don't even attempt to adopt a Southern accent; then they sound just like where they're from (Illinois, Pennsylvania, New York, etc.). The rest of the time the actors and actresses simply sound like they're trying to make a Western... here's a little hint: people from the South, particularly during this period, DO NOT sound like they're from Texas. All Southern accents are not the same. I'm not even going to get started on the feasibility of a man getting shot and killed simply for turning the power on at a small mill... suffice it to say it's simply too stupid a notion to go into at length.

So, in summation, the story itself (at least in this medium) is complete and utter nonsense. The sets don't look the first thing like the real South. And the terrible acting is further amplified by the ridiculous dialogue in which half of the characters sound like they're cowboys, and the other half sound like they're either from the Midwest or the Bronx.

I explored my thesaurus to come up with an adjective that properly describes just how bad this movie is; and I'm caught between dreadful and inane. Perhaps I should just say the premise of the film is inane, and the execution was truly dreadful.