SPLIT LIP Births Exciting Assassin Mythology With Potential That Deserves Caution
Nurtured from a concept eight years in the making from its previous life as a webseries, Split Lip marks a hopeful new milestone for writer and director Chris Sheffield and actress Dorée Seay. For a good bulk of the film, there are some strong, solid performances and writing, and direction overall. There’s a mythology here that feels fresh, and Seay’s own screen presence makes it all the more rewarding. The badass cadre of assassins in Split Lip, including Eli Godfrey’s most chilling role of the pack – a psychopathic masked killer named “Ghetty”, foundates an almost tournament-like action thriller in which Seay truly holds her own action star weight despite having next-to-zero experience. Encompassing the opener of Split Lip is a seething tone-setter inaugurated by Karlton, played by Dejean Brown. Underworld assassin politics set the pace for our thriller as we meet Set (Seay), a hardened life-long assassin who finds […]
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