Strictly for adventurous moviegoers, a peculiar experience -- a polemic that is at once watchable and repellent.
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Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington
Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington
Fast-moving shocker, but it's a dull shocker, so morally dead that it deadens you to watch it. After a while you couldn't care less if anyone is slaughtered or raped -- including the heroines.
As has happened before in less extreme circumstances, filmmakers with purportedly serious intentions punish their viewers for watching their envelope-pushing depiction of sex on the screen by presenting it in the most profoundly negative context imaginable.
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SlateDavid Edelstein
SlateDavid Edelstein
The filmmakers have separated themselves from all the emotions of filmmaking except anger.