Film Review – Electric Slide

There’s little reason to doubt to energy of “Electric Slide.” It’s set in Los Angeles during the pop culture-shifting year of 1983, and features a cast of blank people in colorful outfits. The plot concerns a stylish bank robber using flirtation to disorient his targets. And yet, “Electric Slide” is a painfully dull effort from director Tristan Patterson, last seen with the skateboarding documentary “Dragonslayer.” The ingredients are there for a lively ride with sinful encounters, playing up the oddity of the true-life case. Unfortunately, Patterson gets caught up in the surface details, pumping the picture full of color and music as what little here passes for drama shrivels up in the first ten minutes of the movie. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com