Technically, the film was made very well; that is, the acting of the female combatants, the host and hostess, the lead guard, but the overwhelming carnage is difficult to witness, and I nearly quit watching more than once, but I felt that ultimately there must be a balance to the plot line, so I held out for it. I wasn't completely disappointed in the end, but was disappointed nevertheless.
This is a tragic film, with excessive violence and graphic human destruction of other humans, specifically woman vs. woman. All of the women are quite fetching, which adds to the subtlety of the lure for the viewer. The sadists and sadomasochists among us will love it, but the majority of the rest of us will find it quite difficult, even painful, to witness in its entirety. If and when you do complete that feat, it will likely fail to provide the kind of satisfaction that a memorable film will accomplish. If an "x" rating could ever be applied to a non sexual themed film, this one would certainly qualify for that rating.
I will try not to spoil this for anyone, but I felt that I must check the spoiler box because I felt that my critique must include at least some mention about the ending, which essentially made this a completely and utterly tragic film. I suppose the final scene completes the consistent theme of complete domination and control by a demented group of sadistic entrepreneurs over a selected group of mostly normal, alluring kick-boxing women--- but the depths of degradation and dehumanization achieved in this film has truly set a new benchmark for this macabre genre.
To gather a group of employees together to support such an enterprise as the film suggests seems reminiscent of the mechanism supporting the dark historic reality of the third Reich of Nazi Germany, compacted into a much smaller sphere of tragedy and despair, with the added element of hostage threatening and the ultimate degradation that a profitable commercial enterprise underpinned the entire premise of the story. Is this the nadir of tragedy??
This is a tragic film, with excessive violence and graphic human destruction of other humans, specifically woman vs. woman. All of the women are quite fetching, which adds to the subtlety of the lure for the viewer. The sadists and sadomasochists among us will love it, but the majority of the rest of us will find it quite difficult, even painful, to witness in its entirety. If and when you do complete that feat, it will likely fail to provide the kind of satisfaction that a memorable film will accomplish. If an "x" rating could ever be applied to a non sexual themed film, this one would certainly qualify for that rating.
I will try not to spoil this for anyone, but I felt that I must check the spoiler box because I felt that my critique must include at least some mention about the ending, which essentially made this a completely and utterly tragic film. I suppose the final scene completes the consistent theme of complete domination and control by a demented group of sadistic entrepreneurs over a selected group of mostly normal, alluring kick-boxing women--- but the depths of degradation and dehumanization achieved in this film has truly set a new benchmark for this macabre genre.
To gather a group of employees together to support such an enterprise as the film suggests seems reminiscent of the mechanism supporting the dark historic reality of the third Reich of Nazi Germany, compacted into a much smaller sphere of tragedy and despair, with the added element of hostage threatening and the ultimate degradation that a profitable commercial enterprise underpinned the entire premise of the story. Is this the nadir of tragedy??
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