Raven's Touch (2015)

To me, this movie is perfection.

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

I like Dreya Weber - always been a big fan. She sort of reminds me of a female Steven Seagal (when he is in environmental mode as in Fire Down Below and On Deadly Ground). Naturally though Dreya does not go around knocking people down - she has too much couth for that. Traci Dinwiddie is pretty cool too, even in the thankless role of mentoring two obnoxious teenagers. But as it turns out they are more decent than they like to let on. The story is somewhat flimsy and contrived, but gets the point across. That point of course being that only lesbian true love can save humanity from its nasty and brutish short-sightedness leading to disaster. But fair enough. With this type of movie you pretty well know that going in.

The acting, the characters, the setting, the pie. Convincing, pleasant.Don't scratch under the surface of the plot too much. Like when we find out how the little girl died (that's hardly a spoiler-it's in practically the first scene). It would have been best to leave this detail out, because it is a throwaway line and people being shot is hardly a throwaway thing. Another example is the lunatic Other Mother. The pleading phone call at the beginning of the movie was all we needed--I got it all straightaway. (One black kid and one Asian kid are 'the children'-a little heavy-handed on the minority inclusion-it was like using their skin colour as a way to quickly convey a plot point). Her character was one dimensional and scary. It would have been better to leave her in the descriptions her ex-lover gave. Instead we were offered a poorly-developed cardboard cut-out. There was not enough set up before the sex scene. They'd barely met and the putting-ointment-on bit too obvious. The scene felt mandatory rather than natural. Any time later would have sufficed. It felt, like any other time a plot point was introduced, as forced melodrama.Which was a pity, because this movie had a heart and a cast that hung their characters out comfortably in a beautiful setting. And, as the film is not especially long, this quibbles can largely be ignored. Let the director sing you a song, even if it is slightly off-key.

I actually watched parts of this movie twice because of other reviews but despite what they said I could not disagree more with some of them. The opening scenes are so badly acted and formulaic with the black son, Asian daughter and all white American Mom, plus the crazy lady in the woods. The car scenes leading up to their fist meeting with Raven are so wooden and lacking spirit that I almost laughed. The encounter by the campsite...truly badly done. The other 1 hour and 15 minutes of the movie...yada yada yada. I think for a budget of £200,000 they did well but the only real saving grace from poor script, bad acting and awful direction was the nice scenery. Honestly, don't waste a precious hour and a half of you life on this.

The only thing right about this movie is the wrong story description given here on IMDb. Just read that little short synopsis and skip the movie! So here is my synopsis of this movie - There's this crazy amazon transsexual living in the woods and running around dressed like Tarzan. Raven is the name and she likes to find interesting shaped bits of wood and then takes a hunting knife or an ax to it to change it's shape even more. Raven spends a lot of time running around the woods - remember she's dressed like Tarzan. Every now and then old man Joe shows up and he gets his jolly's howling (singing) with Raven. Kate shows up with her two kids to camp in the woods. All she brings is a tent and a couple of chairs. The kids (teens) don't want to be there and I can understand why! Raven shows up like a wild beast and Kate gets all hot and bothered when she sees Raven. In the mean time Joe is wondering around town and meets Angela, she likes to cry. Then Angela drives into the woods and kidnaps the kids! Kate & Raven are at Raven's house getting it on hot and heavy. Angela shows up and tells Kate she kidnapped the kids but they ran away and are lost in the woods. Raven puts on her Tarzan outfit and takes off running through the woods with her little flashlight. One of the kids bumps her head and decides she can't cope. Raven shows up and hugs the kids after she has shoved them into an old hollow tree stump. Then there's a funeral for old man Joe and a bunch of people show up at Raven's house and go inside! The end. Oh, and Raven at this point is wearing a dress! So my question is - "Who snuffed out Joe?" Raven and the kids? Kate who stayed at Raven's house while Raven ran through the woods looking for the kids? Or was it that Angela - maybe that's why she was crying! Ha Hah!