Review of Revenge (2017) by Badideas — 17 May 2018

Ignore the paid reviewers, and the "it empowers wahmen" reviewers. This is bad movie. It starts out decent, I can see potential, then it just gets stupid. Incredibly stupid. I found out the writer and director are the same person, which explains how a pump shotgun was being referred to and used as a scoped rifle, despite being loaded with shells. It also explains how any number of stupid things are done as they make no sense. I suspect the writer/director has never gone camping in her life, or ever handled a firearm. I feel dumber having watched most of the movie. In the end I just gave up because it was a gore-fest with no redeeming plot, but a lot of shots that were added purely for "artistic" value or to pound the foreshadowing into the viewer's head with the subtlety of repeated blows from a sledgehammer.

Since the writer/director may actually read this. Here is some advice. Cut the BS political message. You can have a strong female lead, but don't make an utterly moronic plot in order to depict an otherwise stupid girl as some sort of hero. Cut the foreshadowing/artistic shots. Just get rid of them if you can't make it subtle. Films can be artistic, but sacrificing actual plot for gratuitous artistic shots is bad film making. You should be asking yourself "how does this forward the plot?" If the answer is "it doesn't", then don't include it. Don't actually make a movie until you have ironed out the improbabilities and impossibilities. I am not a idiot, and you shouldn't be making movies for idiots. It is both immersion breaking and insulting when the audience is supposed to buy into something utterly stupid. Cut the blood/gore. In fact I suggest not making movies that use it at all, since you clearly don't know how to use blood/gore. It isn't something you throw into a scene to hide the fact the scene is crap. All you are doing is making bloody/gorey crap. Blood should be used like punctuation. You don't write with 15 exclamation marks on every line, and you shouldn't use blood excessively where it doesn't need to be used. There, I have given you career advancing advice, you can thank me later in life when you realize I am write. Oh, I have friends in the film industry, and I tell them when their films are crap too.