Raze
April. 21,2013After Sabrina is abducted, she finds herself in an underground lair, forced to do battle with other innocent women for the amusement of unseen spectators. Each of these reluctant warriors has something to lose, but only one will remain when the game is done.
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best movie i've ever seen.
A Disappointing Continuation
When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.
A secret organisation abducts fit young women, puts them in push-up bras and tight white vests, and makes them duke it out to the death in a pit. Sounds like guaranteed exploitation heaven, doesn't it? Well it isn't against all the odds, director Josh C. Waller has managed to make this delightfully trashy concept into a really dull film that amounts to little more than a series of repetitive, unimaginative, unconvincing fist-fights between characters that it's hard to give two hoots about.Lead Zoë Bell, a stunt-woman turned actress, does admittedly look like she can handle herself in a fight, with an athletic physique and a face that has clearly taken a bit of a pounding in the past (from a distance, she looks like Sean Penn in Fast Times at Ridgemont High), but the rest of the girls are mere eye-candy, completely unconvincing as bare-knuckle brawlers. Most look like they would give up all hope if they broke so much as a fingernail.Orchestrating the violence for the benefit of an exclusive audience of rich sadists are married couple Joseph (Doug Jones) and Elizabeth (the once sultry Sherilyn Fenn, who needs to update her profile pic to avoid future disappointment). These despicable reprobates predictably get their comeuppance in the final act, when our heroine, Sabrina (Bell), escapes her confines after playing possum during her final fight. Here, we get my personal hilarious highlight (or should that be lowlight?) of the whole film, as Fenn grabs a weapon to try and kill Sabrina—never has an actress looked less comfortable in a fight scene.
The concept of the film kind of appealed to me... women forced to fight... the film starts off as an abduction film and it just kicks off with a brutal fist fight.... to the death. Raze... this reminds me of a 70's exploitation film, without that 70's look or feel. The fight sequences aren't bad, and the directors do enough to make it interesting enough with the simple plot and premise. This eccentric couple holds a to the death fight of 50 women once a year over 3 days 1 will win. It's a mix of Blood Sport and perhaps Hostel (maybe less grotesque, but there are scenes where girls faces are pummeled to dust).What I didn't like about the film is that this isn't Predators (where the premise is hardcore killers are being hunted), but this is a pure abduction (any woman can get abducted) film, where they are forced to fight and if they lose their families will be murdered (49 will lose so that's also a lot of murdering).Overall it was OK, but after the first 30 minutes it really felt a little too much. The ending also left a bad taste in my mouth.
I'm a huge fan of women fighting and action women in general, it can pretty easily turn me on. This doesn't however prevent me from thinking that when you make such a violent and sadistic movie you have to legitimize it with at least a decent storyline. Because if it just becomes about watching women beat each other to death, then it's just pure perversion. I would have been OK with this thin storyline if the fights weren't to the death or if they didn't last so long (most of the movie). On the other hand, I was very impressed by Zoe Bell and I found her performance electrifying. She's the only thing that prevents this whole movie to completely fall apart, since the rest of the cast is not very good, with the sole exception of Doug Jones. To sum up, this movie can be pretty entertaining at times, the leading actress is impressive and you will see a lot of women fighting. But its excesses are too gratuitous.
While torturing myself with that awful movie for an entire 1:31:59 I couldn't stop asking what if the girls start making out every time when they put together on that pit for fight? On this nonsense movie somehow an organization captured troublesome ladies and forcing them to fight with each other claiming that their relatives are in danger. But no one actually noticing that the videos of their beloved ones are mostly on loop and they are actually not getting any real news from their "beloved ones"Violence level of the fighting scenes are over-rated because same amount of violence is already on MMA Women out there in real life and its "legal" and everyone watch the same amount of violence on public TV on that so called "sport" So the "illegal activity" that is going on the story of that movie is utterly pointless. Because MMA Women is actually doing the same thing.There's no acting or camera work or anything artistic in this movie. If you approach to the movie on these topics; there are better student movies with no budget.I'd say skip it but who doesn't enjoy a good cat fight? If people don't like awfully violent fighting scenes there wouldn't be a MMA at first place.