Simply Perfect

Powerful

Excellent but underrated film

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

I have never actually seen this movie before now in 2015, although I understand that it apparently did inspire a heap of other movies. So it was with some expectations and anticipation that I actually sat down to watch it.First of all, I will say that the story was actually good and the characters equally so. And the two women lead talents were doing really nice jobs with their given characters.That being said, then the potentially great movie was really butchered by the explicit sex scenes. It was just too much and too nasty. It was so tacky and sleazy. Director Virginie Despentes really massacred the movie with this adult contents.If this movie had been without the explicit sex scenes, then the movie would have received a seven out of ten stars rating from me. But given the sleazy level of the movie then I am compelled to rating it a mediocre five out of ten stars only.The DVD does come with a warning stating 'be warned - this film contains vivid scenes'. A warning that indeed should be taken to heart before watching the movie.

Mixing extreme violence with hardcore sex, Baise-moi is a taboo busting piece of French cinema that exists purely to shock. And shock it does! Following the exploits of hooker Nadine (Karen Bach) and rape victim Manu (Raffaëla Anderson), two man-hating killers on the run, this movie, directed by and starring real porn stars, delivers moment after moment that one doesn't usually find in films that have been passed by the BBFC (albeit with 12s of cuts) and released legitimately on UK DVD.Beginning with a harrowing and explicit scene depicting the rape of Manu (and her junkie pal), the film starts as it means to go on—by unflinchingly showing everything, however seedy or violent. As the film progresses viewers are treated to more full-on sex, some nasty killings (innocent victims are killed for fun), and a gob-smacking finale in which our modern day Bonnie and Clyde (or should that be Bonnie and Bonnie?) enter a sex-club, guns ablazing.Baise-moi is PURE exploitation. As far as I could see, the extreme content has no sub-text or hidden message; it is simply there for the purpose of entertaining viewers who like to watch films that push the boundaries. Some people may have a problem with this kind of entertainment, and if so, they should stay well away. I, however, was mightily impressed by this unpretentious piece of dangerous movie-making and recommend it to anyone wanting to try something a little less 'safe' than the usual fare offered at your local video store.

Two women end up as serial killers in a raw uncut version of thelma and louise.The acting is amazing and you can connect to the characters and still feel empathy even though they are horrendous killers.It shows the vulnerability of women in society and the supremacy of men and how they take advantage of women.This is however flipped on to it's head in this film.It's really refreshing seeing the male in a vulnerable position physically,sexually and emotionally.I suspect the reason this has partly got such a low rating is because most men couldn't handle the contents of the film i.e 2 powerful women taking control of the male.It also shows men in a sexually pornographic vulnerable position.Another reason why a lot of men would feel uncomfortable with this film.Well done to the directors for being so raw with a well written and well acted film.It's really not for the faint hearted as some of the scenes are extremely graphic.

I couldn't figure out if this was porn or an exploitation movie. It should have been more about exploitation. If real sex were to be shown, it should have been about the intimacy between the two people instead of the prostitution, rape and sodomy.Baise-moi is about a lot of things, revolt, sexual violence, lust, rebellion, attack on the rich, the scums, the sleaze, the pervs, the life of slackers, drug addicts and low lives. There are so many things that I just can't put my finger on.When a movie is very confusing in a lot of senses, I don't like it. And this one was pretty muddled up. I can't feel too sorry for these girls (I didn't watch the whole of rape scene, as it was too much) because they do equally repulsive things as what was done to them. The controversy surrounding the film, as well as some outraged right wing and conservative groups trying to ban the film from premiering in France, is actually more interesting than the film itself. I'm really not sure what the directors were attempting to do with the film, either making another Thelma & Louise, but on crack, or showing that pornography is actually a violence towards women, as, both the directors and the lead actresses have experienced, in the porn industry, women are often used as objects of extreme sex, violence and humiliation.Either way, the film really doesn't merit the title of a film that changed the way people thought, it was simply trying to say something about pornography and the violence that comes with it, mixed into an indie film, that was so violent and sexually explicit that it was banned in several countries and changed several censorship titles in France.If you want a better story about nihilism, a lot violence and killings, with a clear message about why they are depicted, watch Natural Born Killers, instead.