Lumsdal Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

Breakinger A Brilliant Conflict

Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

cmovies-99674 PROS: The ending was the star part of the movie, although this part was also cliché it was very entertaining. The acting of characters that weren't stars were played phenomenally, and the stars of the movie were played OK. I liked who the characters were. They were very dynamic and genuine. This helped the plot develop nicely, it filled in holes and showed the watcher certain characters intentions which is always helpful.CONS: The one con, and the con was really large was the tense scenes weren't tense, and the build up to the heightened scenes were slow or flat. As I was sitting there I was just hoping that the tension would rise, however it just fell flat. I might not have wrote a lot, but the few sentences I did write explained the issues as clear as they could be.www.chorror.com

view_and_review I know that most movies are fiction and that we are not only supposed to not believe what happens on screen, but we should also not expect the people nor their environment to conform to what occurs in real life. But that never stops us from hoping and wishing that the characters would just do what normal people would do. Or do what we believe they SHOULD do.This movie started off so strong then it took a turn toward what-the-heck-is-this-ville. The movie starts off with a woman escaping her captor who had her locked in a basement in the middle of nowhere. She gets the better of him but then has nowhere to go because the phones don't work (big surprise) and she doesn't have the keys to the van outside. She finally musters up the courage and the weaponry to demand the keys to the van to do what? To escape? To go to the police? No. To go round up the other captured girls because that makes the most sense. That's exactly what traumatized escapees do.The movie was a tale of revenge. I don't begrudge the movie for being about revenge, I just couldn't get over the timing and the method of revenge. Later we see why the movie creators took the immediate vigilante/savior approach but to me it was a case of trying to be too clever. Every movie has to have a twist. Too often vengeance movies sloppily put it all together. Either the motive for revenge is silly or the person seeking revenge is unlikely or the method of seeking revenge is unrealistic. The motive here was solid but as far as the person and more still the method... really wasn't in the plausibility ballpark. In all cases it detracts from the believability which detracts from the overall movie. This was a "I Spit on Your Grave" type with far less character, style and logic.

kosmasp There are a couple of movies that tell us, that they start where others end. This is one of the cases where its more than true. You get to see what happens, when a situation sort of gets resolved. Or does it? There is always questions and character motivation might seem flawed here. But it all has an internal logic that works very well for the movie and the viewer too.The suspense is almost killing, but that's how it is supposed to be. At the end there is something that happens, that I guess puts people off (if the initial premise didn't do that already, which you'll either find enticing and good and original or boring and brainless). But if you bear with the movie, it will reward you ...

bob_meg Every once in a while a small film comes along that you think will be just another pointless schlep up the same genre cliff, peaking at a dead end. Instead, it takes every expected detour, tosses it out the window, spits in your face and floors it, driving you straight off that well-worn cliff. And you love every minute of it.That's "Bound to Vengeance" in a nutshell and the "to" in the title is important.Jose Manuel Cravioto (whose previous directorial efforts consisted mostly of well-received shorts and docs) along with writers Rock Shaink and Keith Kjornes (who also acts here), have crafted a savage, viscerally memorable road trip. It's one that our protagonist Eve (Tina Ivlev, in a lithely nuanced performance) takes very willingly, even obsessively, after she clocks her scumbag white-slaver jailer Phil (Richard Tyson) with a brick and then makes him an offer he can't refuse: disclose the locations of the other girls (of whom he has Polaroids) who've been imprisoned as Eve just was --- or get shot in the face. And this is the catch: if you can get past the basic implausibility of someone who has just been starved, raped, and tortured for weeks deciding it's way more appealing to save other people than herself, then "Bound to Vengeance" has you, and good luck shaking or turning it off. And happily, there is a reason for Eve's zeal, but you won't understand that unless you watch the film, into the end credits.Then again, happily and amazingly, EVERYTHING in this film makes sense. The script is really THAT tight and that's odd for a white slavery flick. It's going to give you a lot of story and character development that are foreign in most of these types of films. It's not a white slavery film in the strictest sense of the word --- it isn't lurid or snuffy, it takes no pleasure in the degradation of women. It's quick, gritty, and violent and it appears to delight in its dark look, which (though nicely photographed) gives every frame the impression of being dredged in motor oil --- and that's a compliment. This kind of film SHOULD look that way. It doesn't treat this issue lightly or as a convenient vehicle for exploitational entertainment.Another offbeat element of BTV is the performance by the main perv Phil. Phil is not likable, he's a huge dirt-bag, but Tyson brings lots of interesting layers to the character, keeping you guessing, wondering, wanting to know more about him. As he says, he's just the zoo-keeper. There are bigger guys in charge. Or are there? You never really know until the final half of the film.And to round out our attachment to Eve (and break up and lighten the oppressive mood), we get snippets of her back-story in home movies shot from a phone, which become vitally important to the story in the end, as well as making Ivlev's character even more riveting.It's hard to predict what genre fans will make of this film. But, love it or hate it, I bet you won't forget the ride.