Cinema Of Vengeance (DVD)

this is a good box set, though the vandame movies are really really disappointing, but the rest of the movies are good since the action is fast, and there is comedy slapstick from the jackie chan movie which allows you to enjoy the movie even though it has a serious story.

Advantages: Realism, unique storytelling that works on dozens of levels
Disadvantages: ultra violent and graphic, only select audiences will fully appreciate it

...Disgust, despair, anger, joy, disturbed, enthralled, amused, amazed, informed, indulged, insulted, intoxicated, nauseated: how many films can you say have made you feel all of these human infatuations (and more) at the same time? The bizarre/bewilderment that that feeling must depict is reflected in that of controversial French film: ?Irreversible?. While the term ?controversial? is tossed around all too often in films, ?Irreversible? can safely say that it is in that elite circle of ?most controversial films ever made?. The BBFC (British Board Of Film Classification) were very brave to let the film in our cinemas and our DVD collections uncut as it depicts (in reverse chronology) a savage and unflinching rape and the subsequent act of vengeance that makes the violence in ?The Passion Of The Christ? look like a playground scrap... Read review

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