As a film it's not good. Most of the camera work looks bad. The audio is just atrocious. The characters are barely distinguishable at times.

But it IS an interesting film. For a lot of reasons. The meta narrative around the film. Is it feminist? Is it not? Is it exploitive? Is it not? There's no real questioning the last one. It's definitely exploitive but is it pointlessly so? I read about the inspiration for this movie where the director and a friend found a young woman who had be raped taking a shortcut to her boyfriend's house and the police well the police did a good job and by good job I mean they didn't immediately shoot the victim. 10 points for the police. Other people might argue that losing 90 points for demanding a rape victim with a broken jaw spell out their name to fill out a pedantic form instead of going to the hospital for assistance is more important but police aren't people and we can't expect them to think like us.

The movie isn't all bad. _Some_ of the shots look good. The acting is fine especially Camille Keaton as Jennifer Hills. The movie lingers in the most absurd way on the rape of Jennifer but it doesn't really do so in a way that's especially salacious. It condemns the attackers in no uncertain terms. I've read some reactions that suggest there's been a criticism that the film suggest Jennifer asks for it and in no way is that true. Anyone who has seen the movie can tell that easily. The only "willingness" Jennifer displays is whatever it takes to get the ultimate revenge. As I've already said for a revenge movie it spends a lot of time on the why revenge and relatively little on the how revenge. The actual revenge itself isn't particularly clever. It's literal straight line stuff. What it IS however is gutsy. The will Jennifer must have to go through her revenge the way she did after having gone through what she did is impressively strong. For this type of movie the attacked party is often weaker and needs to utilize stealth and extreme intelligence and guile in order to enact their revenge. However Jennifer here doesn't employ sneaking and hiding. From the moment they discover she's alive she very calmly sits in the open and watches them skim by her. She almost never hides from them when they come to her. Openly approaching them in a manner that to call daring would be understating.

Honestly if this movie had come out a few decades later it would probably still have gone viral. I mean the memes practically write themselves. I mean these dudes haven't changed that much unfortunately. You can practically see the labels on them. There's the MGTOW. there's the NiceGuy:tm:. There's the "Alpha" male. From the way they attack to the cowardly way they avoid taking the final step to the way they cower when found out. It's practically text book.

A movie I really didn't care much for upon my first viewing (circa 2011) but kind of appreciate more today. Unnerving to say the least with a brutal sexual assault followed by the revenge portion for the third act that's not entirely satisfying but still well done as a whole. One thing I noticed today that I didn't 10 years ago was the lack of a score or soundtrack which gives the movie a haunting tone. Camille Keaton gives a great performance and the guys do well as absolute psychopaths and creeps. **3.5/5**

The thing about this film that I find most difficult to fathom, other than why it was made in the first place, is why it's seen as such an important work. At the end of the film, I didn't have the slightest notion that I had seen anything that informed me or had done me any good whatsoever. I'm all for films that challenge, that rattle cages, as long as they have a point to make. I can sit through the most abhorrent, violent, perverse,terrifying and disturbing film, as long as when the credits roll, I feel I've learned something, either about a subject and/or myself by doing so. With this, there's no such insight to be gained. It's a nasty film, devoid of any purpose other than to shock and disgust. In these two objectives at least, it succeeds.