“Deadly Justice” is a C or D movie thriller so badly scripted, amateurishly-acted and stridently-scored that you wonder where the money to make it, or make it all better, went?

It was shot and set in Biloxi. Didn’t the state pitch in on it? Did Brett Favre steal that cash, too?

There are a couple of pseudo Southern accents, all of them from the locals brought on board as supporting cast in a tale of a judge in jail, “revenge” on the prosecutor and police chief who put him there and who might be behind it.

Actor Corin Nemec scripted this story about Deep South “justice” and a true crime TV interview series whose host tries to “gotcha” his way into getting that case reopened. It’s riddled with ludicrous plot twists, hilariously tone-deaf reactions to crimes and lunk-headed attempts at humor.

The players, even the professionals in the cast, can’t fix it. The amateurish bit players? They didn’t have a prayer.

Kelly Sullivan plays Holly, the former DA now entering private practice who makes the mistake of showing up on Dale Jones’ (Brian Krause) “Real Crimes” expose show. A judge went to prison for stalking and murdering his wife, a case so notorious a TV movie (sampled here, a film even worse than the “real” movie) was made from it.

“Real Crime” seems to think Holly and her retired police chief Dad (Marco St. John) railroaded that judge.

The show doesn’t go well, and as a bonus, the creep host asks Holly out afterwards. Worse still, when she gets home, somebody tases her and leaves a note telling her it’s “Your turn to lose someone.”

Holly, the ex-DA, doesn’t report this assault to the police. “Logic” goes out the window, never to return, as we’re treated to a mad taserer who comes for Holly’s assistant (Christiana Leucas), her Dad and others.

That new guy in town, the second man to hit on Holly the first time he meets her? Maybe over-concerned Theo (screenwriter and “Stargate” veteran Nemec) is involved. Maybe the “Duck Dynasty” looking judge (Billy Miller) is pulling strings from inside the penitentiary.

As more things happen to Holly, we kind of hope she eventually calls the cops, or that Dad does. Not that we expect that to help.

One curious thing about the casting. The script doesn’t make much of the fact that Krause and Nemec could be brothers, they look so much alike. That’s a plot twist left under-developed. And the viewer is left to ponder if two weathered 50somethings would have a shot with the pretty, accomplished single-lady lawyer.

Maybe. But then, she’s never left Biloxi.

Sullivan, with a career that extends back to the film version of the musical “The Producers,” and who was in “Roman J. Israel, Esq.” and TV’s “Never Have I Ever,” almost gets through this with her dignity intact.

As for everybody else, not so much.

That moment we hear “Is anybody believing any of this drivel?” shouted on the live “Real Crime” TV show in the movie? That’s the most fitting single-sentence review of it.

Rating: unrated, violence

Cast: Kelly Sullivan, Brian Krause, Corin Nemec, Christiana Leucas and Marco St. John

Credits: Directed by Karyn Klein, scripted by Corin Nemec. A Level 33 release.

Running time: 1:25