Streaming
Service: Shudder
Movie
Name/Year: Revenge
(2017)
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Length: 108 minutes
Rating: R
Production/Distribution: M.E.S. Productions, Monkey
Pack Films, Charades, Logical Pictures, Nexus Factory, Umedia, uFund, Canal+, Ciné+,
Cinémage 12, Le Tax Shelter du Gouvernement Fédéral de Belgique, Investisseurs
Tax Shelter, A Contracorriente Films, Albatros Film, Another World
Entertainment, Cinemundo, Cinéart, Future Film, Fênix Distribuidora de Filmes, Neon,
Odeon, Rézo Films, Sony Pictures Releasing, Vertigo Releasing, A
Contracorriente Films, Film1, Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment, Koch Media, Netflix,
Shudder, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Universal Pictures Home
Entertainment (UPHE)
Director: Coralie Fargeat
Writer: Coralie Fargeat
Actors: Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz,
Kevin Janssens, Vincent Colombe, Guillaume Bouchède, Jean-Louis Tribes, Barbara
Gateau
Blurb
from IMDb: Never
take your mistress on an annual guys' getaway, especially one devoted to
hunting - a violent lesson for three wealthy married men.
Selina’s
Point of View:
I
find revenge-plot films to be highly cathartic. Sure, they’re usually extremely
bloody, and they’re often low-budget with poor acting, but I still come away
from them feeling satisfied. They always feature people doing disgustingly awful
stuff, but those people then receive the punishment they deserve. You don’t always
see people getting what they deserve in real life.
I was
pleasantly surprised when this film came out swinging with decent acting and quality
shots. Already it felt elevated.
Of
course, there are scenes that are difficult to watch. They’re supposed to be
difficult. When you see what happens to the main character, you’re supposed to
be sickened and angry. Otherwise the revenge aspect wouldn’t work.
They
don’t get overly graphic with what happens to the main character, but I would
still issue a trigger warning. Either way, it doesn’t feel gratuitous. It shows
only enough for the audience to be able to empathize with the main character
and root for the antagonists to die.
After
that, the movie has no problem being gratuitous as fuck with the violence
against. There were so many times where something happened on screen and my
entire body would tense up and I’d make those sounds some people make when they’re
seeing something super painful – like they can feel it. By the end of the film,
my muscles were screaming at me because they’d been tense for so long.
It is
bloody and unapologetic in how it handles the revenge aspects… which I liked.
What the hell is the point of revenge porn if punches are pulled.
Revenge is just a good, old-fashioned, fuck-‘em-up
story. You want to see the antagonists suffer, and you do. You want to see the
main character rain down vengeance, and she does. It’s not perfect. I couldn’t
stand the soundtrack, and there were some errors where physics was concerned,
but it was solid.
Honestly?
I’d probably watch it again.
Cat’s
Point of View:
Revenge has been on my ‘to-watch’ list, and I
was rather giddy when I saw that this movie had come up for review.
Before I get into
my opinions on the film, I need to caution viewers that if you want to be
completely surprised about the core elements of this tale, don’t watch the
trailer. It gives away some key moments of the movie that may just lessen the
impact of the scenes. If you don’t mind spoilers, then by all means proceed –
just don’t be surprised when the film doesn’t offer you much more than an
expansion on the teaser.
Revenge released in a month where there were
several female badass characters to choose from on the big screen and I
remember being excited about that. I was also curious as to what in the world
they’d included in this film for the production team to entirely run out of
fake blood during production.
There are a good
number of disturbing scenes in this film. It is definitely not for the queasy
or faint of heart. Revenge is, for that matter, quite aptly rated. It’s
a hard R rating, so keep that in mind if watching where youngsters might be
roaming around. It’s not just based on gore – there are some disturbing sexual
situations as well.
The story
highlight’s the main character’s sheer will to live, in spite of the odds
stacked against her. I enjoyed some of the subtle imagery laced in to
underscore the characters’ ordeal and the revenge theme.
It was a fairly
solid film in general, I was just disappointed that there wasn’t a lot more to
it than I’d already seen in the trailer. I wouldn’t steer someone to a Shudder
subscription for this movie alone, but if you’ve already signed up for the
horror streaming network and you get stuck on what to watch, Revenge
isn’t a bad choice.
Rotten
Tomatoes Critic Score – 92%
Rotten
Tomatoes Audience Score – 56%
Metascore – 81/100
Metacritic
User Score – 6.4/10
IMDB
Score – 6.3/10
CinemaScore – None
Trust
the Dice: Selina’s Rating – 4/5
Trust
the Dice: Cat’s Rating – 3.5/5
Movie
Trailer:
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