Alexis Bledel (“Gilmore Girls,” “Mad Men”) has a singularly angelic face, so I get why it’s fun to see her doing all kinds of transgressive, violent stuff (hey, it worked with Chloë Moretz’s Hit Girl character in “Kick-Ass.”)
Hence, director Geoffrey Fletcher (previously the writer of 2009’s “Precious,” and clearly a Tarantino fan) has her throwing around the F-word, smashing a man’s face in with a fire extinguisher and showering atop a pile of freshly killed bad guys. Despite all these jarring events — and including something called “the internal bleeding dance” — this film’s a rather dull affair.
The titular young women (Bledel and Saoirse Ronan) are best friends who make a living as assassins. When contracted to take out an all-too-willing sad sack played by James Gandolfini, they can’t bring themselves to do it.
Predicated almost entirely on the repeated juxtaposition of innocent girlishness and mindless violence, “Violet & Daisy” could still have been campy fun — instead, it wilts for lack of wit.