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Irreversible | 
| Director: Gaspar Noe
Actors: Monica Bellucci, Vincent Cssel, Albert Dupontel
Studio: Lionsgate
Category: Movie
Buy New: $2.99
Rating:  328 reviews
Sales Rank: 428
Genre: Drama
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: Video On Demand
Running Time: 100 Minutes
ASIN: B0013O123Q
Release Date: October 21, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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| Synopsis:
Alex and Marcus are a couple whose story is told over the course of a fateful day. The tumultuous odyssey begins with a brutal killing then unspools in reverse to reveal the horrifying events that lead to the gut-wrenching, violent climax of the opening scene. |
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 Monica Bellucci is the most beautiful woman I have ever seen in hollywood November 7, 2008
biztrade2005
I don't like the movie, but I like Monica Bellucci, she is very beautiful and her body is the goddess.
 irreversible November 3, 2008
R. miller
this is a lousy movie with no script or plot to it.also very bad acting.I would not recommend this to anyone
 Disturbing, yet I can't forget it. October 23, 2008
D. Sandey (St. Paul, MN USA)
Irreversible was disturbing, unquestionably. It was probably one of the most disturbing movies I've ever seen. Two of the more notable scenes had me wanting to look away, something that the the common day torture porn movies can't seem to manage (though I stay away from them as a rule). Everything in these reviews are right in that regard -- it's not for those with soft stomachs. However, it's also a powerful film that will stick with you for several days after viewing if you can absorb it all.
Some of the reviews call it exploitive and some call it a revenge film... I'd say it's absolutely neither. It doesn't use the violence/rape as a tool for satisfaction and it doesn't use it as an excuse for later actions. In a typical revenge film the initial incident (in this case the rape of Alex) is merely the starting point for the revenge character (in this case Marcus) to go on a wild spree righting the wrongs (the fire extinguisher scene). However, because we are initially shocked and horrified by the murder with the fire extinguisher, we gain no satisfaction from it, so it's hardly called revenge (knowing it's the wrong man doesn't help either). When we see the rape scene we know there is no satisfaction in the "revenge", so it's merely disturbing and doesn't serve as an excuse for Marcus' actions. It proceeds to a small fight at a party which ends in Alex leaving - gut wrenching, if you didn't have your eyes closed for what the character had to go through 10 minutes earlier. Then, end with Marcus and Alex happily together in bed pissing away time as two people very comfortable with each other might do. Ultimately the fact that it ends with calm and caring scenes is all the more depressing... You know their future, while they sit there idly blissful.
This film would have been grossly different had it been in chronological order. It could easily be called an exploitive revenge flick with extreme violence and odd structure (an unsatisfying ending and with disproportionately happy beginning) - I'd bet chronologically it'd be an NC-17. While, fundamentally, the order as it stands makes this a film against rape and murder - certainly there was no satisfaction taken from either of them and the direction demanded that the impact be fully felt.
 Good but disturbing October 3, 2008
M. Morris (Marianna, AR USA)
Its a fairly good movie. Runs from the end to the front in sections. It is a french movie with English subtitles. Has a realistic, brutal rap scene that is extremely disturbing. Affected me for 3 days.
Can't even begin to explain.. October 2, 2008
Daniela Ruis (Baja, Mexico)
..how this movie gets to your mind then to your heart. First shock and confussion, perpetrated by images so brilliantly real and painfully brutal, followed by an intriguing -but not that uncommon- plot that slowly unfolds the real story of Irreversible: one about LOVE AND CHOICES. That's what this movie is about, how sometimes we are just blind enough to not see the danger or what we are truly putting in risk in every decision we make, even when it is in front of our eyes. Or in the worst case, when we willingly sacrifice our good inner self for other temporary pleasures that ultimately lead us to a nightmare.
So, putting aside the violence and revenge secuences (that just enhance the whole storytelling) you'll get an actual love story.
In short..it's just a wonderful film about LIFE itself just like it is, inmensely beautiful and cruel.
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