Wild Things: Diamonds in the Rough (2005)

"Tangled" director Jay Lowi's "Wild Things" sequel "Wild Things 3," a.k.a. "Wild Things: Diamonds in the Rough" qualifies as more of the same things as well as tame things. The exotic sunny Florida locations, the treacherous bare-breasted babes, and melodrama galore make the action tolerable to watch, even if the acting has, on the whole, an amateurish spontaneity. Not surprisingly, "Wild Things 2" scribe Andy Hurst, who also penned "Single White Female 2," has things down pat with this second sequel. Like the previous "Things," two gals are looking for the good life, even if it means that a man has to suffer the bad life. Most of the characters lack charisma and they turn on each other in a heartbeat. Eventually, some even wind up paying the piper. Indeed, the only decent, likable character in "Wild Things 3" is ruthlessly taken advantage of and his trust abused. Lowi generates enough momentum with the melodramatic elements in the narrative so that this nonsense doesn't wear out its welcome.Teenager Marie Clifton (Sarah Lang of "American Pie 2") is itching to get her fingers on $4-million dollars worth of diamonds when she turns eighteen, but her stepfather Jay Clifton (Brad Johnson of "Always") is putting up roadblocks. Marie's high school girlfriend suggests that she get a lawyer to fight Jay. During a pool competition where Marie competes, Elena Sandoval (Sandra McCoy of "Cry Wolf") is cleaning up. Jay takes pity on her and invites her to Marie's party. At Marie's party, Marie slaps Elena around in a frisky little catfight and they both wind up in the pool. Later, Elena has a rendezvous with Jay at his construction site. Jay is running behind on a project and the contractors are upset.The next morning Jay finds the police, Detective Michael Morrison (Linden Ashby of "Wyatt Earp") and Kristen Richards (Dana Meyers of "Starship Troopers") at his lush home. They arrest him for the rape of Elena Sandoval and Jay finds himself on trial for a crime that he never committed. Elena, it seems, was on parole, too, at the time. Marie truly hates her now.The Andy Hurst screenplay goes into overdrive during the second half and the co-conspirators come out of the woodwork by the dozens. Meanwhile, Detective Morrison who is getting divorced from his wife discovers that another member of the Blue Bay Police Department has her eyes on him—Detective Kirsten Richards. They get it on in the evidence room because the inevitable call interrupts them.At least, this derivative straight-to-cable melodrama with its wild twists and turns wraps itself up in 87 merciful minutes. The girls look really hot, awesome, and cute and the lesbian love scenes with Lang and McCoy swapping spit in the shower with a bare breast or two between him adds a little sizzle to this jaded saga.

Wild Things 3: Diamonds in the Rough is the final installment to the Wild Things franchise. This film is an equivalent to rotting meat in the sun— it stinks. The film suffers from unoriginality. It tackles the same old recycled plot devices, by going through the motions of tackling the same typical state of affairs. There' the quintessential "Rich-Bitch" & "Trailer-Trash"; there's a rape accusation, (which of course, these chicks are behind on the plan.) Of course, there's a corrupted official of law enforcement caught in the middle of the scheme—leading to a threesome with the two young women, until he meets his doom. Of course the misunderstood good girl (either the trailer-trash or the rich bitch) ends up being the mastermind behind the whole scheme. It all takes place in the infamous seedy providence of Blue Bay, Florida.Sarah Laine plays Marie Clifton, the spoil brat stepdaughter (who for some reason, shares her stepfather's maiden name) of filthy rich construction tycoon Jay Clifton (Brad Johnson). Marie is not satisfied with her stepfather challenging her heritance—which are two flawless diamonds that are worth 4 million dollars that were left to her by her deceased mother until her 18th birthday.While Jay is on the verge of bankruptcy and a couple of missing fingers by the mob, the two are caught in a bitter battle for the diamonds, until Jay is accused of rape by one of Marie's fellow classmate name Elena Sandoval (Sandra McCoy), who is the chick from the opposite side of the tracks. So Marie uses this as an opportunity to retrieve the diamonds, by first, convincing Jay that she can sell the diamonds and use the money to help clear his name, therefore, this is when the thread of deceitfulness untangles, and you see the same ironic plot twists.Everything in this film is so horrible cheap and B-Grade. To the disappointingly brief threesome sex-scene—which was nothing but shots of groping of the breasts (McCoy's body-double's that is). While Sandra McCoy couldn't emote to save her life, there's nothing sexy or seductive about her whatsoever, and since she's taken a 50% pay-cut for a body-double to do her nude scene—it ruins the effect that the actress has what it takes to bring some sort of sex appeal in front of the camera. If you're going to do sex-scenes where nudity is needed, then what's with these body-doubles? Sara Laine isn't as bad to look at, but she's no Denise Richards—who back in 1998, brought the essence of seduction and sexiness to her rich bitch Kelly Lanier Van Ryan. But you couldn't blame the two lead stars for chasing a quick paycheck. Noticeable Dina Meyer (Saw 1 & 2) as Elena's Parole officer and Mortal Combat's Linden Ashby returning from "Wild Things 2" as Detective Michael Morrison seems to be the only two actors that display some sort decent acting chops, but that doesn't change the fact that they're still B-listers. Wild Things 3: Diamonds in the Rough is a brainless mess of a film. Though I shouldn't have expected too much from this film since it's a straight-to-DVD effort. Though it's neither entertaining nor worth renting. It's just straight up trash. What a waste of time.

while there was no reason to make this movie,at least it is better than the 2nd one.the acting is better,the twists are more believable and the characters,while not overly developed,have at least some dimension to them.the movie is much better paced than its predecessor,and will hold your interest for the most part.though you may wonder,as i did,why we needed two sequels to a movie that tells the same basic story only much more effectively.there is not a lot more to say about this one.it certainly falls short of the original.it is still a less than average effort for this genre(just not as bad as the 2nd installment)and offers nothing new.but if you have nothing better to do with your time,you could do worse than watch this movie.keep your expectations low and you may not be too disappointed. 4* out of 10

If you have seen the original Wild Things you've already seen the two sequels by default. Actually I hate to use the word sequels when referring to those two "movies" as they're much more akin to bargain basement remakes. None of the quote 'twists and turns' will surprise you in the least, well strike that it does have one or two new twists but they're both so extremely retarded that you'll be lobotomized by just witnessing them. Furthermore the one reason that you'd presumingly ever watch this are the 'hot girls', let me save you some time and money (if you didn't just watch it on Starz like everyone else), see that box art of the film on the main movie page? The women in the film are far from as striking visually and are the least attractive of the other girls in the series. Oh yeah, and a hearty huge fat BOOO to both Sandra McCoy AND Sarah Laine on both relying on body doubles. Neither one of them is going to go anywhere in the film industry with that lame attitude.My Grade: F