Jolt

2021 Action/Adventure | Comedy
66%

Lindy is a beautiful, sardonically-funny woman with a painful secret: Due to a lifelong, rare neurological disorder, she experiences sporadic rage-filled, murderous impulses that can only be stopped when she shocks herself with a special electrode device. Unable to find love and connection in a world that fears her bizarre condition, she finally trusts a man long enough to fall in love, only to find him murdered the next day. Heartbroken and enraged, she embarks on a revenge-filled mission to find his killer, while also being pursued by the police as the crime's prime suspect.

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by Deirdre Molumby
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'Jolt' starts off with some great action and social commentary before collapsing into silliness

From childhood, Lindy (Kate Beckinsale) was different to other girls and boys. Thanks to a rare neurological disorder, she has a hair trigger response, whereby once she snaps, she’d attack you with a ferocity and strength you wouldn’t expect of a child. She became a lab rat and was even brought to the military, but in adulthood she finally found a means of controlling her anger with a special electrode device which she shocks herself with upon getting any enraged or murderous impulses. Then she discovers love and normality with Justin (Jai Courteney). But when he is killed, it’ll take a lot more than an electrode device to stop her on her path to vengeance…

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