...additional scenes of the lead actresses in bondage gear would have definitely been a positive.
"Walk All Over Me" could be sold by the simple chance of seeing Leelee Sobieski and Tricia Helfer in leather, S&M fetish gear. Oh…yeah, there´s all this other stuff about drug dealers, gangsters and a stolen stash of money (Canadian, unfortunately). The young Miss Sobieski plays the naïve and klutzy Alberta. As the film begins, we find her working the register at a convenience store in the middle of nowhere. She and her boyfriend are soon accosted by drug dealers looking for their payoff. The frazzled Alberta absentmindedly left it on the counter where it was lifted by a customer. The dealers beat the snot out of the boyfriend while Alberta beats feet and hops the first bus to Vancouver.
Upon arrival, this fresh faced girl right off the bus looks up the only person she knows in the city, her former babysitter, Celene (Helfer). Turns out, Celene now makes a fine living as a dominatrix and even has her own part-time house slave named Spencer (Ross McMillan). Usually meek and submissive, Spencer isn´t pleased to see Alberta enter onto the scene as a third wheel. While playing dress-up in one of Celene´s outfits, Alberta spills coffee on it, much to Celene´s dismay. Alberta desperately wants to rectify the situation, but her job at a supermarket checkout stand won´t earn her a fraction of the cash to replace the clothes. Alberta gets the kooky idea to go through tapes of men soliciting for Celene´s services and pretend to be her for some easy duckets. She picks the least freaky and creepy of the candidates, Paul (Jacob Tierney), who is just as awkward as Alberta.
It doesn't take long for Alberta and Paul to get into the BDSM thing when they are interrupted by Paul´s old boss, Rene (Lothaire Bluteau), a nightclub owner who believes Paul stole half a million dollars from him. Rene is accompanied by a pair of violent, dim-witted brothers named Isaac (Michael Adamthwaite) and Aaron (Michael Eklund, who looks and acts like an Ethan Hawke impersonator) who continually bicker with each other. Once again, Alberta finds herself in a situation where she runs away while a trio of ruffians assaults her friend. She also manages to snatch a duffel bag stuffed with $20,000 dollars. Of course, Rene comes looking for his money and Celene´s neat, ordered and dominant life is turned upside down.
The themes of domination and submission run throughout the film in various levels that go beyond who wears the ball gag and who wields the cat-o-nine tails. Alberta begins the film as a submissive type and gradually becomes more assertive, growing out of her shell as she assumes Celene´s identity. Likewise, Celene, who keeps house in an orderly fashion, must learn to let go of control and become a bit more of a free-spirit like Alberta. Even the villains aren´t above this obvious symbolism. Isaac is the dominant brother, bullying Aaron who doesn´t seem capable of having a single thought without someone telling him what it is. Rene himself has chased away the people he once loved due to his obsessively totalitarian personality.
Right off the bat, I´ll tell you there´s no nudity from either of the film´s blonde bombshells. You do get to see them in some skimpy outfits, but nothing you couldn´t get away with on network TV. The casting of the statuesque Helfer as a dominatrix is certainly an inspired move. Sobieski (who is 5´10, the same height as her co-star) is not to be outdone in the looks department. She´s certainly…overflowing, shall we say when clad in a tight corset and thigh-high stiletto boots. Her performance is a little too labored. She tries too hard at the clumsy mannerisms in her movement and the stammering in the speech.
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