Diagonaldi
Very well executed
CheerupSilver
Very Cool!!!
Brendon Jones
It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.
Billie Morin
This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows
Claudio Carvalho
In Madrid, the journalist Marcos Vallez (Antonio Banderas) is writing an article about a circus and he schedules an interview for the next day with the lead attraction Anna Meltzer (Francesca Neri) a.k.a. the Amazon Queen Guiditta, who simultaneously rides a horse and sharply shoots in balloons in her performance. After the interview, they feel attracted for each other and they spend the rest of the day and the night together. In the morning, Marcos travels to Barcelona to cover a concert and promises to meet Anna on the next day and follow her to hell. However, three men gang rape Anna during the night after her performance with extreme violence and the disturbed Anna takes her rifle and ammunition to chase the rapists, but with tragic consequences."Dispara!" is a depressing and heartbreaking travel to hell of a sweet character magnificently performed by the extremely beautiful and talented Francesca Neri. This movie is great but the plot is not simply a revenge of a woman brutally attacked but a very sad, realistic, dark and quite unpleasant drama, reason why it is not among my favorite movies. The character of Anna Meltzer is very well developed in the beginning; therefore when the rape happens, the viewer is entirely connected feeling empathy for her nice character. The attitude of Marcos Vallez is despicable, mixing feelings with his profession, telling his suspicious about Anna to his editor without any evidence. I regret that the DVD released by Brazilian Distributor Spectra Nova is awfully dubbed in English without option to the original language (Spanish). My vote is eight.Title (Brazil): "Dispara" ("Shoot")
jotix100
Marcos, a young reporter, goes to the circus to write about that world in his paper's Sunday supplement. He is not interested in anything, but as he is leaving, the next act is about to start. It involves a woman riding a horse and performing tricks; the presentation ends in shooting balloons from the horse while it is moving. Marcos feels attracted to the beautiful woman. Marcos is intrigued by the circus performer and returns to interview her, but she begins playing with him, inventing stories. As he is about to leave, Ana, comes to him and tells her who she really is. An affair between them ensues.Fate intervenes when three young mechanics come to repair circus equipment and the owner gives them complimentary tickets for the show. The trio make a racket as they watch Ana perform. After the show, these three force themselves upon Ana. She is badly hurt and decides to take matters into her own hands. Since she is a skilled shooter, these young punks don't have a chance when she comes for them. Ana, who is bleeding badly ends up in a country home where a couple and two small children live. Marcos is responsible for breaking the impasse between Ana and the police, but he arrived too late to help her.Carlos Saura, a noted director, made some valid contributions to the Spanish cinema. His earlier pictures had a political and satirical context that he abandoned later on after Franco's death in favor of films that emphasized the dance. This film will not add anything to his career, or that of Antonio Banderas, who as Marcos, gives a tepid performance. On the other hand, Francesca Neri, a gifted Italian actress is the best thing in the film. Her Ana has equal parts of mystery, charm, love and hate, as her determined character decides to deal with her tormentors.The film is titled "Outrage" in English.
NewEnglandPat
This film is a fine drama about a woman who gets raped by three men then hunts then down one by one with a cold determination of a professional assassin. After years of being an equestrian circus performer, Francesca Neri meets Antonio Banderas, a journalist, and romance seems to be in the offing but fate is unkind to them and sets in motion the tragic events of the story. The pursuit and revenge plot is straightforward with no surprises but the drama really builds when Neri herself becomes the hunted when an all-points alert is issued by Spanish police. Neri's role of a woman who takes the law into her own hands is one-dimensional but she sells her character well and manages to generate sympathy because of what happened to her. Neri and Banderas do have a certain chemistry between them and they make the premise work in spite of the unpleasant subject matter.
smatysia
It's hard to catch the nuances (that I hope are there) in a subtitled film. Francesca Neri is the star of this film, even though Antonio Banderas is featured on the U. S. release. It has an exotic (to me) location, a circus in Madrid. Neri's character suffers a brutal rape (Not an easy scene to watch) and the rest of the film deals with her method of dealing with the wrong done her, and its unintended consequences.