Now, when I sat down to watch the 2018 Japanese movie "Kawaii Akuma" (aka "Cute Devil"),I assumed that the movie was an actual thriller, as this is what the movie was labeled as here on IMDb, as well as on the movie's cover. And since I hadn't heard about this movie from writers Shinji Imaoka and Machiko Nasu before, then I didn't know what I was in for here.

As it turned out, this was essentially 1 hour and 25 minutes of sleazy softcore adult entertainment. Not exactly what I was expecting, much less interested in watching. So I ended up turning off director Hisayasu Satô's 2018 movie before even making it to the end. Yeah, I just had zero interest in watching such a movie.

Sure, there was a murder mystery element to the movie, at least it started out as such, but the storyline quickly succumbed into showing off nudity and lewd scenes, and that is where I ended the movie.

The acting in the movie was, well I suppose, as to be expected for a movie such as this. But then again, I wasn't expecting this particular kind of movie, so I wasn't really set up for those kind of performances.

This movie was a swing and a miss. It utterly and completely failed to entertain me. But I am sure that there is an audience out there for a movie of this type.

My rating of "Kawaii Akuma" lands on a generous two out of ten stars, and that is based on the production level.