To F
La historia es tan simple pero te atrapa. Tienes sus altos y bajos y el personaje se convierte muy rápido en lo que te quieren mostrar. Aun así es entretenida e interesante.
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars
11/24/24
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Twiggy H
Even for a film of its time, it's quite clunky throughout, which makes it annoying because it could have been a far greater film with what it had to work it. But yes, a mute chick in america goes on a random blowout shooting douchebags. The bases of that alone is worth watching, but the overly cringe parts is just unnecessary, and the ending very disappointing - to have the chick that 'could see a douchebag a mile off and tell him to fuck off in his face' then stab her.. yeahh she went nuts at the end, which doesn't make sense of character especially when realising she never killed the dog.
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Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars
09/25/24
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Ralph B
Finally saw this on Kino Cult - always knew about the film, but never had a chance to watch. Prime 80's (although feels more 70s) exploitation. Interesting performance from the lead - she's mute (in the film), so she has no lines (except for a couple of written notes). Somewhat interesting soundtrack and the Halloween Party sequence has a nice off-kilter appeal. That trumpet sure does sound like a saxophone though.
Rated 3.5/5 Stars •
Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
09/01/23
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Audience Member
Another grossly overrated film that lacks significant substance and character development. The main character is conveniently a mute, saving writers from the burden of creating any meaningful dialogue for nearly the entire movie. Lund couldn’t have asked for a less demanding role, having absolutely no need to remember any lines. Being a mute also conveniently makes it mostly impossible to know whether or not she has any skill as an actress whatsoever. The movie description is completely misleading as well. She mostly responds positively to random men’s advances before leading them to a location where she can murder them unseen, without really any of the men even doing a thing to justify her murdering them. They are mostly just surprised by her ambushing them. One guy she meets at a bar, she goes outside to sit with on a bench, and while he’s talking with her, she pulls out her gun and puts it to his head and pulls the trigger. That is the kind of thing that typically represents the situations in which she murders men. Most people would not consider that to be vigilante Justice, just plain old murder. If the movie had actually been true to its description, maybe it could’ve been an engaging story, but it just ends up being a movie about a mute girl who lures random innocent men into situations where she can murder them for no reason. So if pointless repetitive murder isn’t your thing (which I imagine is the case for most), there is really nothing you will find enjoyable about this movie. While not the worst movie I’ve ever seen, it certainly can compete for the top 10 or 20. And I’ve seen a lot of movies, especially thrillers, so you can imagine I’ve seen more than my fair share of bad movies. I would’ve given it 2 stars if not for its grossly unbalanced number of what are clearly fans praising a movie that can only click with the 1% of the population they belong to, yet comprising 98% of its reviews.
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Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars
05/05/23
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Wayne K
Never one to shy away from controversy, or the sleazy realities of life in New York City, Abel Ferrara dipped his toes into the rape and revenge pool with Ms. 45 in 1981, 3 years after I Spit On Your Grave made the genre, I guess, noteworthy. Unlike the Meir Zarchi film, which revelled in how drawn-out, graphic and unrelenting the rape scenes were, Ferrara pares them back, with both receiving less than a minute of screentime each, a wise decision that many exploitation filmmakers could learn a lesson from. Making the lead character, Thana, a mute means that most of the performance is giving through expressions and her inability to truly articulate what she's thinking, and Zoë Lund is fantastic in the role. It focuses more on the ramifications of the assaults and the subsequent revenge than on the assaults themselves, and despite the attention it received for its graphic violence, its far less bloody than the average slasher flicks you'll see released nowadays. There's elements which feel implausible and ill thought out, but by keeping it simple and streamlined, Ferrari is able to tell the story he wants to tell without unnecessary subplots or needless filler. Of the 3 Ferrara films I've seen so far, this one is my favourite, but in a few weeks, months or years time, that may well have changed.
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars
03/13/23
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steve c
This should be categorized as dark comedy as well.
Rated 3/5 Stars •
Rated 3 out of 5 stars
03/30/23
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