Gee who'd have thunk it, a revenge movie called...Revenge? Brilliant! I'm kinda joking, but it is a clever move considering the state the movie industry is in lately.
My ONLY gripe, and this is a highly personal one, is that I'm a weak-minded monolingual White Man, and I had no idea this wasn't 100% in English, so I couldn't do anything during the 'slower' sequences because that's where all the talking was. That being said, it's a very minor gripe and probably even served to keep my eyes on the screen for the whole movie, ensuring I missed almost nothing that was happening. It actually took NOTHING away from the movie, and if anything just kinda reminded me that I need to get my act together and start learning other languages.
The action sequences though? Incredibly fun! Yes, there are a lot of "that's not how that works in real life" moments here, but this isn't real life and if that's how this movie wants those things to work that way for stylistic reasons (or really, any reasons) then that's how it works for THIS MOVIE. Also, when I read that they kept running out of fake blood while shooting this, I was expecting scenes akin to the blood fountains in Kill Bill or in Wednesday Addams' Thanksgiving Day play, but they ended up being far better, at least as far as the plot here is concerned.
Matilda Lutz is VERY good as Jen - a woman who goes from being a very intentionally, and consciously, sexual and incredibly tempting woman to a very determined and deadly killing machine. Again, there's a number if things about specifically HOW she does things that make no sense in the real world but they make sense for this movie's heightened reality, and they do nothing to detract from how Matilda portrays Jen's determination. Vincent Colombe and Kevin Janssens are also really good as the piggish Stan and ultimately cruel Richard respectively, but Guillaume Bouchède is ultimately completely forgettable as the lazy Dimitri, a man who is almost never seen without some kind of food in his hands and mouth.
I don't know why it's labelled as a horror though...maybe because of all the blood?
