Infamousta brilliant actors, brilliant editing
FrogGlace In other words,this film is a surreal ride.
Sharkflei Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.
Ariella Broughton It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.
cablooie A 14yo girl with the skills of Jason Bourne, the tactics of James Bond and the physical strength of Ben Grimm lures a guy into a trap and tortures him under the suspicion he "might" have done something wrong. But according to the story it is kind of fair and right, for some reason. She beats him up quite a few times, actually she kicks his ass around hands down, outsmarts him, outtalks him, outeverythings him. If this was a story about a 14yo boy torturing a woman to have her confess crimes he can't prove, the feminist party would have burned theaters. Apparently, the other way round is perfectly legit, a man is guilty until proven innocent and torturing a suspect is perfectly fine. Good concept, Guantanamo. And a 14yo brat can talk him into killing himself. Yep, she can talk. That's all she does for 95% of this silly film actually. Past 30 minutes in the movie you start hoping he'd kill the damn chatterbox, regardless he's guilty or not. It could have been e decent horror short with an adolescent psycho, but no. Somebody wanted a revenge movie justifying torturing suspects. That claim killed it together with the 14yo Xmen-like brat. Apart from the first 10 intriguing minutes the film sucks throughout without redemption. Steer clear.
Doug Burr The film is very well made and the premise is quite good, but I do have a lot of criticism. I will only mention what is in the trailer and back of the dvd First I will discuss the acting. There are only really two characters. Patrick Wilson's performance is brilliant. He has great emotional range and is very convincing in any situation. Ellen Page is also great, but she is not as strong. However, considering that this was one of her first films, it is still an impressive performance. Now for my criticism. My main issues are with the plot. As I said before, the premise has potential, but I really did not like what they did with it. Of course the pedophile photographer is a terrible person, and he needs to be stopped. That being said, I don't think a tiny 14 year old girl, who is also a wanna be vigilante, is the one to do it. Her character could have just reported him to the police as soon as she became aware of him. I know that would have been a very boring film, but I am making a larger point. Instead of doing it, she goes far out of her way to lure him in, and then turns out to be a crazy sadist. We could argue all day about which character is worse, but the fact that it is even a discussion is a problem. For a film like this to work, the hero needs to be a better person than the villain. So you can root for them to win. Instead with this, there are just two terrible people and it is hard to like either of them. In fact, there are times when I actually felt bad for the pedophile, and I resent the film makers for that. There will be some of the girl power gang who think this is great because there is a young woman inflicting violence instead of a man. I think these people have missed the point. You can either, get revenge by fighting fire with fire, and in doing so, forfeit the moral high ground, OR you can refuse to sink to the villains level and by doings so, keep moral superiority. Her character (and this whole film) tries to do both, but her character quickly crossed the line and I was unable to root for her after that, and her smug moral judgements seem laughable given her own actions. So despite this films potential, I did not like it.
muomo It has a somewhat promising start, but the dwindle down into sadistic torture happened too quickly and without enough exposition to justify it. Essentially, it ends up just looking like To Catch a Predator but instead of the cops being called, the predator is castrated immediately. There is simply not enough information given to make you hate what you are told to think is a sick pedophile, nor is there enough information to make you feel that Hayley is justified in her actions. The ending was just weird, and I still don't quite get why Janelle was even a thing.This movie was NOT thrilling and the castration scene was weak. I didn't need to see the castration play-by-play, but there are plenty of ways to make a gruesome scene still seem gruesome even if it occurs off-screen. The girl is also stupid and should've done something to ensure that he could not move. As tiny as she was, if he was able to get the upper-hand for even a second, that would've been the end for her.I also don't get why Sandra Oh's name is presented like she was relevant. She was on screen for a grand total of 5 minutes.
pmaheadquarters Well what can you say about a movie that relishes in a sick little psycho bitch torturing a man for just about the duration of the movie. Add to the fact that she had no actual proof that he'd done anything wrong but I guess her being psychic allowed to piece everything together. She was an "honour student" after all and in case you didn't hear her the first time she repeats it multiple times, as if this makes things seem more credible. NOT! We are led to believe a scrawny (she actually looked like a boy so I don't possibly see what the attraction would be) little 14 year old brat was able to pick up an adult male and move him around into various positions such as a chair and on a table in order to torture him. Nice insult to the viewers intelligence and for me the movie immediately became a joke because of it.The long drawn out castration scene was gratuitous and disgusting. Whatever message (if any) this movie attempted to convey failed miserably as if anything like many other reviewers I totally sympathized with the supposed "predator" infinitely more than this insufferable psycho talk box. I think it's safe to say that when this happens and the "heroine" is so hateful in relation to the supposed bad guy the movie is an ultimate failure.In fact, as others have said her character was so infuriating and unsympathetic that I craved for Jeff to break free and smash her skull in and was truly disappointed when it didn't happen.Vile piece of unbelievable trash. If your idea of entertainment is to watch a man being tortured in the most sadistic way possible go for it. I personally found it infuriating and which I'd have never seen it.
