So she lost a lot of blood, hadn't slept or eaten in a day, has a branch sticking out of her abdomen, but has the strength to walk a long distance without shoes, swim and fight? Also, she went from having pink panties before the fall, to black shorts after the fall? And why do movies and video games continue lying to people that shotguns can be fired from a mile distance with pinpoint sniper accuracy. The only reason I gave it a 5/10 is because of the girl's ass. But it's a really stupid movie.:rofl::poop::wastebasket:
Rape and revenge even more incredible than Prometheus, a girl with a Wolverine healing factor, and Rambo skills, people with 45 liters of blood, people who forget that they have been shot with a shotgun
Sick brutal sadistic fun. I love this old school plot and when it’s done like this, I love it even more. The evil scumbags pay the price as expected but you really enjoy it because of the spectacular Matilda Lutz. She is scorching hot and easy to love playing this adrenaline pumped badass babe; she is unforgettable. I must also mention the cinematography is gorgeous and colorful. There’s nothing to analyze, so just strap yourself in and have a blast watching Matilda get all over it.
predictable and boring, don't waste your time
It is impossible for that girl to survive the fall, subsequent impalement or loss of blood in the desert.
The premise of the move? Classic revenge flick, sure, nice, I can get behind it, you go girl, get those guys.
But the execution? Super messy nothing made actual sense and it was easy to nitpick, and I'm the type of guy who enjoys turning off his brain and enjoying a movie take place in its own universe with its own rules
Like her falling of the cliff and surviving being impaled is something of this movie universe's rule, not like irl, but I get it and go along with it. Her having literally no background in any form of combat/survival and all pointing toward her being a sugar baby, but all of a sudden she's capable of handling weapons and patching up that huge hole in her abdomen? (X) Doubt. She is capable of outpacing HURT and BAREFOOT in the rocky desert the three guys chasing her on vehicles, all while bleeding enough for 3 people. I touch on this in the tldr, but having weapons in a movie, means you have to have an expert to check on them, to not have an Alec Baldwin situation. Nobody decided to tell the director that it is absurd to have a rifle scope on a shotgun? It didn't even have to be a shotgun, it could have been a rifle, and the story wouldn't have changed literally at all. The ATV ran out of gas pretty quickly, hell even the car guy had to refill, but the motorbike dude could ride for like 2 days without refilling? Did he pull the fuel out of his ass(with which the female director was apparently obsessed with)? Damn I can't understand how this movie gets grades of 9 and 10... There you go, rant over.
Tl;Dr Do you wanna know how absurd this movie is? It has a shotgun...WITH A RIFLE SCOPE. Let that sink in.
Gory, but brilliant
Jen (a superb Matilda Lutz) and her married lover Richard (Kevin Janssens) are enjoying a romantic weekend in his isolated house in the desert. However, shortly after they arrive, Richard's friends, Stan (Vincent Colombe), Dimitri (Guillaume Bouchède), and Roberto (Jean-Louis Tribes) show up unannounced, urging Richard to join them on a hunting trip. As tension mounts in the house, Stan rapes Jen, but when she says she is going to go to the police, and to alert Richard's wife of his affair, the men attack her and leave her for dead. However, unbeknownst to them, she survives the assault, and has set on revenge.
Very much in the vein of films such as Sam Peckingpah's Strawdogs (1971) and Meir Zarchi's I Spit On Your Grave (1978), Revenge is an insanely gory rape-revenge thriller. In her feature debut, writer/director Coralie Fargeat displays an astonishing visual panache as she reappropriates this exploitative sub-genre for the post :pound_symbol:MeToo era. From the expansive Ford-esque vistas of the desert to the claustrophobic and labyrinthine finale, her visual language is as dexterous and thematically justified as one would expect from a master stylist such as Michael Mann. The film is very much about the dangers and darker implications of the male gaze, and the way Fargeat's constantly moving camera lingers on actress Matilda Lutz's half-naked body is deeply unsettling, challenging the audience to look at her in the same way the male characters do, before turning this notion on its head in the second half of the film. If you can ignore the plot contrivances, and stomach the gore, you will find a socially relevant film that is as auspicious a debut as you're likely to see all year.
A cathartic movie to be sure, and one that is very well made. Doesn't stint on the gore, which is either a good or a bad thing depending on your personal taste.
Matilda Lutz is freaking awesome in this one, she's so cool and is great in getting revenge! Anyway, this is a Rape-Revenge flick and if you don't like those skip it. The rape itself isn't that on screen but the action that follows is bloody great. And bloody it is for sure. There is a scene were Stan is chasing after Jen and he steps into glass, he sits and pulls the glass out, those effects are so well made and bloody.
We also get a shot of Matilda Lutz standing tall, with the camera spinning around here which looked so amazing and beautiful at the same time! I bet she would be an epic final girl in a slasher flick! The killer would really have to be at his A+ game to murder her!
Anyway, I also got a laugh out of Shop Club USA ad that kept playing on the telly at the end. And the final bit freaking brilliant. As you can see I enjoyed Revenge a lot, it looks beautiful, it's bloody and time flies.
Well done Coralie Fargeat! Can't wait what you have in store for us next!
i am going to watch this movie again just for the girl. this movie is one of my favorite
Really enjoyed this, very tarantino esque.
Revenge is a classic 70s style rape & revenge flick like a renovated muscle car that doesn't run on story but on cool - and the tank is full.
The director (Coralie Fargeat, writing and directing her first feature-length film) throws herself on the scene like an unpinned hand grenade and blows the screen away. Reminiscent of Tarantino, she can elicit winces as well as laughs (her 80S synth pop reference to Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive tho!) and make every body count.
The actors are solid and the female lead (Italian actress Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz) is totally believable as the bad ass with a nice one. See this film before the backlash kicks in!
You’ve seen this a billion times before, it is entirely predictable, but the execution is what makes it work.
It’s also quite gorey and visually striking, but not always very well acted.
Well, it is a typical rape-revenge movie..
Contains a lot of ridiculous scene I must say, like literally NOONE can survived falling from that height + impaled on some huge tree branch and you get some hole in your abdomen which cure just within 2 days~??? NOBODY WILL SURVIVED THAT ON THEIR OWN
There's a lot of other scene similar like that but just watch it and figure it out yourself.
Nothing much to shout really.
If you can suspend your disbelief you might enjoy this revenge movie in the same vein of "I spit on your grave"... but you'll have to be able to suspend it a lot. The movie is beautifully shot but it left me hanging a bit towards the end. The main actor (apparently the Belgian called Kevin Janssens... I did not know!) looked like he was performing try outs for the Rising Dead 2 movie... He would be perfect in the role of Chuck Greene.
All in all this movie doesn't offer anything new and is a bit long-winded towards the end. It didn't quite satisfy but I do not regret seeing it.
Some strange things I picked up during this movie (brain had time to think I guess):
- can't get over that they got the brand wrong. Regardless of all the things that aren't possible in this film... it should have been mirrored
- when's the last time you saw a left-handed person holding a rifle... I haven't... Didn't I pay attention in the past?
- too bad they didn't go a bit more into the mystical of peyote and deserts... would have made the unbelievable stuff more palatable
- I also always set myself on fire when I try to escape being empaled, it's the logical thing to do
- it had to be mirrored... right? REDRUM REEB REEB NACIXEM
On the one hand it has even simpler plot than John Wick which is not a compliment on my side. But on the other hand I keep thinking about more and more attribute about it. It's exciting, gruesome, visceral, sexy, tense and gorgeous. The cinematography even blowed my mind.
You should give it a try at least once. Worst case scenario you turn it off immediately.
I feel like I just watched a live-action anime. On one hand it's pretty ballsy. But on the other hand you have to question whether something so obnoxiously unrealistic is actually good. I have to draw a line at characters being able to run, swim, fight and eat while also having large objects impaled through their guts. Or characters being able to suddenly become survival experts by taking drugs. The film is visually stunning and I'm sure film students will gush over it, but the plot is just too outrageous for the average viewer.
Run of the mill revenge flick that really could've been so much more. The first half does a wonderful job with exposition, establishing the dynamic between this young woman and her three tormentors. But then once we get into the actual "revenge" portion of the film, it all goes downhill. The cast is very small so needless to say, so is the body count. I much preferred the remakes of "I Spit On Your Grave" when it comes to the revenge department, though the Saw-like torture techniques might feel out of place in a film like this.
The direction and cinematography is brilliant. The look of the film is a lot more polished and artistic than what you usually see in these types of revenge flicks. There are a lot of closeups and jump cuts that really help build the tension and atmosphere. It's just a shame that the film couldn't hold that tension and atmosphere throughout the whole film.
It was entertaining enough. But it really could've been a lot more visceral with a bit more character development for our heroine, and it could've been something truly great.
well this was certainly an unexpected gem of a movie.
The gore on display here is only secondary to the absolutely excruciating pacing and overall plot development.
While Revenge is exceptionally well filmed, surprisingly so for the genre it depicts, it's a far cry from being enough to save this flick from being anything but average. Die hard action and gore nuts who are OK with "rape-revenge" as a premise should be satiated, but everyone else should steer clear.
Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz make me crazy, she is so sexy in this movie and act so well perfect acting :) three fearful "rich" motorized machos against the tactician young bare foot, beautiful without fear, sexy young and very smart girl :) Could be the title of the movie...
The best movie of that genre ( horror ) is fantastic, great, In few words don't miss it : the movie of the year 2018 ..
Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz is super great in this role & she is so beautiful :) what a performance :)
the film is a mixture of French and English :) as the director is Belgian :) a lot's of blood :)
I din't expect to be a b trash revenge movie.
To begin with there is no way that she survived that.
Moving along sooo many other stupid things that make you laugh
She tries to sterile the knife with a lighter but she has a 3 inches fire in front of here
They have to do not once, twice , 5 times a wakeup-still dreaming sequence on top of each other.
They have her walking around on ther underwear
Unnecessary gore and zoom, extra zoom on the discussing stuff
At some point they are actually running in circles chasing one another within a living room and a kitchen :laughing:
Unnecessary dragging out everything.
Watch some of the classic 80s VHS with women killers with their underwear and sexy lingerie, just shooting for no reason.
The one or other scene may be a little unrealistic, but it is still one of the best movies. Wonderful!
So many injuries that made my skin crawl :sweat_smile: Surprised this film didn’t cause a world shortage of fake blood.
Lazy writing, lacks in reason and consequence, plot holes like gaping gun wounds spluttering blood. Not necessarily worse than the grind of the house revenge flick, but definitely not one of the better. Has some good opportunities to transcend but lets all of them slip through the saucy fingers. The promise of unexpected becomes a railroaded and predictable disappointment.
Somehow, the least believable thing about this movie is the setup. Dude takes his total babe girlfriend to a remote location for a wild weekend, and has two weirdo buddies you wonder why he'd ever hang out with, who randomly show up out of nowhere and don't get told to take a hike.
Fantastic rape/revenge movie. Brutal, unrelenting and stylish. I wasn't expecting it to have this much bite.
Shout by Neal MahoneyVIP 8BlockedParent2018-12-25T21:47:47Z
Boy, that sure was a lot of blood.