Review of I Spit on Your Grave 2 (2013) by Jennifer T — 15 Oct 2014

I felt like I had to try and equalize the balance a bit here. While it isn't a masterpiece, I found the film to be very entertaining. It is obviously gratuitous (you should expect that anyway).

The film does what it tries to do very well in my opinion. Namely, build up a sense of hopelessness and empathy toward the main character, and then build to a crescendo of violent retribution. I felt that this was done perfectly adequately.

The look and feel of the film, and the acting I thought were very good considering the obviously smaller budget as compared to the first one.

If you compare this with one of the later Saw films for example, this comes across as more serious, sincere in a way and of higher quality.

We're not coming into this expecting Ben Hur after all. (Are we?).