A Major Disappointment

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

...but yet the camera work as well as the acting makes this "film" barely watchable. It looks even worse than a typical high school movie production.It's so bad that you barely notice the weak story and the weak character development.No, I really do not mind the hardcore stuff.Yes, I really hate bad films.

This film presents the dregs of the dregs. Do not believe the summary describing two girls marginalized by society. These girls just want to stay stoned any way possible. So they do anything with anything that will get them the money to stay drugged. They have no redeeming qualities. Zero. They are the colon of society, the sewer in which other drug addicts, pimps and dealers can unload their frustrations and anxieties. So when they go on a killing rampage you feel nothing for them. They never had any humanity. The sad part is there is no justice in the end after they have killed so many. There is nothing to believe in here.The sex and cinematography are both awful. You cannot see anything because of the style of exposure and what you can see is not the least bit sexy or erotic. A total waste of time.

Baise Moi is a sloppy messy product of revenge. It's as though the writers got really pi...d off one day and from anger, decided to write this ultra violent shock tale, and basically that's just what it is. The acting and especially blood is poor. We have two girls who undergo a horrible rape/intercourse, some sexual violence shed. This is the instigator for a murderous spree of men, who they first pick up and have sex with, one near the end who they rob, gets it right in the buttock, anal entry plus. This is just a movie to be shocked and get off on. It was an indulging view when I saw it back in 2002, before it's banning. It's end, I found distasteful, the way one of the woman victims was spoken to by the law. This could be an anti rape movie or one demonstrative of women's rights. You be the judge. Not for the easily offended.

I finally sat down to watch this movie. I was expecting just a mess of a film. However, I was greatly surprised by it. It is definitely not for everyone. It relies on Abel Ferrera for its story, no doubt. What struck me was the gritty portrayal of a France that is usually unseen (albeit a fictionalized one) in French cinema. It is not the lighthearted "Amelie" or others of the ilk. No one is really likable. French society is not ideal. The two leads are not professional (except in the porn business), and their acting shows that, but their characters are not supposed to have any more depth than they do. Many of the victims are sleazy, and I, as a viewer, do not know whether to root for the antiheroes or not. That is the directors' strength in the movie, and precisely their point. These women are empowered feminists (as is one of the directors) and show their anger at not only men, but the industry that creates a male-dominated and desexualizes women in a male-oriented way. Just look at how the female victim at the ATM looks! Look at how the women at the sex club are "enjoying" themselves! Look at how the men "force" the women into pleasing them or how they attempt to control them from doing what they want to do to feel pleasure (whether it is sexual or, in the case of the protagonists, killing). This movie is a critique on society. The two women had enough and, like Michael Douglas in "Falling Down," go on a cross-country killing spree just for a release from reality and to control it at the same time. There are many hardcore sex acts, and the film is not in the same vein as "Cafe Flesh," but, like that film, it swerves from sex acts to a "normal" storyline. Again, NOT for everyone, so don't go out and rush to rent. I wish it were a bit better with acting and film stock, but it's hardly worth the 4.4 that IMDb shows it having! I give it 7 of 10. E.