Film: Mona Lisa And The Blood Moon  
Cast: Jun Jong-seo, Kate Hudson, Ed Skrein, Evan Whitten, Craig Robinson, Lauren Bowles, Serene Lee, Cory Roberts
Director: Ana Lily Amirpour
Rating: 2/5
Runtime: 106 min.

This film loses heft in the first few minutes itself. We see a young incarcerated girl escaping prison/Mental asylum by way of her telekinetic powers. Now if you just thought about it, you would question how she got into being incarcerated in the first place. You won’t find any answers here. The film is a visual experience at best. There’s no plot and the script is devoid of depth. 

In the first 30 odd min the girl Mona (Jeon Jong-seo), after escaping, encounters drunk women who lend her shoes and some money, has a run-in with a drug dealer, then a cop, meets up with a stripper Bonnie (Kate Hudson)who dances at a strip club on Bourbon Street, at a fast-food restaurant. The stripper takes her into her home where she lives with her young son and thereafter, believing that she may be exploited, leaves again - this time with the stripper’s pre-teen son. This is mainly her journey after escaping captivity. How she navigates the world outside after a decade of being locked in? What is left unexplained though is whether she developed those supernatural powers while in captivity or had them all along? Mona is wilful and never fearful.