3/10 for Huppert's performance, the rest is the most ridiculus trash.

I think you need to be familiar with Verhoeven. He tends to have a darkly satirical edge stamped in his films.

Absolutely agree with everything you said.

This and Civil war are among the worst films of the year in 2016. Never I was so dissapointed by a film.

I think the film challenges the viewer in how
rape has been captured in cinema before. The
men in this film are weak, the women remain strong.
After the rape, her reaction is stoic. She isn't one
to let it affect her. I questioned her motives for not
going to the police, but once I learned of her story
with her father, I understood her distrust for the police.

At that time, I'm sure it was a male dominated department,
which only hardened her into her adult life.

Perfect summery & I completely agree with you.

Indeed. As a 50 y/o female myself, and suspecting that the rapist was among my entourage (as are pretty well ALL rapes), I may well have preferred to do my own investigation rather then getting idiotic police forces involved who accomplish NOTHING against rapists, and drag victims through a nasty court system for years.

Having finally settled my doubts upon 1-2-3 males, I may well indeed tempt fate to flush out the rapist.

But these actions involved a psychological state of mind that is simply not the state of mind of most women (though it MIGHT be my own). In order to place oneself in that calm state given such distressing situations (break-n-enters, text-messages, cum on bed, etc, etc) requires inhuman resolve. One can imagine a trauma desensitised person being able to cope with the rape in order to exact revenge, but the remainder of the life intrusions 100% deserved and required police attention. Police have better success rates when there is evidence such as break-n-entry and cum left on the scene.

I think Verhoeven fetishes this type of women, glamourises her (me), but in such glamourisation, basically disses on all women who do not have this degree of pain in their lives that would make this slow burn revenge possible.

As far as revenge movies go, I prefer J.Lo in Enough, or Jodie Foster in The Brave One, where one experiences violence, then runs away and transforms into an attacker, then beats the *beep* out of the guy/s. That seems more feasible to me.
The slow burn presented in this is an inhuman feat in my opinion, and plays more like a male fetish rather than female empowered.

Notwithstanding, Isabelle Huppert, as usual, gives such an amazing performance, it wipes out many other female acting performances.

I may decide to never watch another Verhoeven movie ever again. If this movie is a reflection of his place in his life (as frankly most films big occasional directors are), it is a sign that like with many other aging directors, he's looking towards fetishised women to allieve his lonely old man fantasies. Though I love revenge films, he has succeeded in making me hate his work and to re-examin previous projets.

***So I've seen 4 movies/wk in theatre for a 1/4 century, call me crazy?**

Indeed. As a 50 y/o female myself, and suspecting that the rapist was among my entourage (as are pretty well ALL rapes), I may well have preferred to do my own investigation rather then getting idiotic police forces involved who accomplish NOTHING against rapists, and drag victims through a nasty court system for years.

Having finally settled my doubts upon 1-2-3 males, I may well indeed tempt fate to flush out the rapist.

But these actions involved a psychological state of mind that is simply not the state of mind of most women (though it MIGHT be my own). In order to place oneself in that calm state given such distressing situations (break-n-enters, text-messages, cum on bed, etc, etc) requires inhuman resolve. One can imagine a trauma desensitised person being able to cope with the rape in order to exact revenge, but the remainder of the life intrusions 100% deserved and required police attention. Police have better success rates when there is evidence such as break-n-entry and cum left on the scene.

I think Verhoeven fetishes this type of women, glamourises her (me), but in such glamourisation, basically disses on all women who do not have this degree of pain in their lives that would make this slow burn revenge possible.

As far as revenge movies go, I prefer J.Lo in Enough, or Jodie Foster in The Brave One, where one experiences violence, then runs away and transforms into an attacker, then beats the *beep* out of the guy/s. That seems more feasible to me.
The slow burn presented in this is an inhuman feat in my opinion, and plays more like a male fetish rather than female empowered.

Notwithstanding, Isabelle Huppert, as usual, gives such an amazing performance, it wipes out many other female acting performances.

I may decide to never watch another Verhoeven movie ever again. If this movie is a reflection of his place in his life (as frankly most films big occasional directors are), it is a sign that like with many other aging directors, he's looking towards fetishised women to allieve his lonely old man fantasies. Though I love revenge films, he has succeeded in making me hate his work and to re-examin previous projets.

***So I've seen 4 movies/wk in theatre for a 1/4 century, call me crazy?**

I would rank Isabelle Hubbert's performance a bit higher, but I agree this film is inexplicable ridiculous trash. Horribly written and conceived. This feels like the sort of film that would have been made decades ago with the intention of being "edgy," but now it just feels clueless.