| Irreversible | 
| Actors: Monica Bellucci, Vincent Cassel, Jean-louis Costes, Stephane Derderian, Stephane Drouot
Studio: Lions Gate
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (330 reviews)
Sales Rank: 6554
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Italian (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD
Running Time: 97 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.1 x 0.5
MPN: LGEDST8159D
ISBN: 1589713419
UPC: 658149815926
EAN: 9781589713413
ASIN: B00009W0U4
Release Date: August 5, 2003
Theatrical Release Date: 2002
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Product Description
Alex and marcus are a couple whose story is told over the course of a fateful evening in a series of long takes. An emotional odyssey that unspools in reverse from gut-wrenching violence to sweetly observed moments of sublime tenderness. Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 09/14/2004 Starring: Monica Bellucci Vincent Cassel Run time: 98 minutes Rating: Ur
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Irreversible begins with the closing credits running backwards before the film begins (or ends) with Marcus (Vincent Cassell) and Pierre (Albert Dupontel) being escorted out of a gay S&M club by the cops, Marcus with his arm broken and Pierre in handcuffs. The "story" proceeds to unwind in a series of single-take scenes that unfold Memento-style, with each scene giving more context to what we have seen previously. Each scenario depicts actions, dialogue, incident, behavior, and circumstances that the lead characters might have wished didn't happen, ranging from extreme violence through awkward social situations to mild embarrassment. The central character (and possible dreamer of this whole what-if story) emerges as Alex (Monica Bellucci), who suffers the worst in a very hard-to-watch rape sequence in an underpass. Semi-improvised, the scenes all have attack and power as themes, with later/earlier conversational sequences that suggest life isn't all sexual assaults in the dark, showing equal cinematic imagination with the horrors. Arguably, this is not a film most would subject themselves to twice, but it is something that stays in the mind for days after viewing, sparking far more ideas and emotions than most wallow-in-nastiness pictures. --Kim Newman
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 Not as bad as I was told December 3, 2008
Everything that needs to be said about this movie has been said. However, I just wanted to throw out there that the Death-by-fire extinguisher scene wasn't so unwatchable that I wanted to turn off the movie or vomit. The Rape scene was NOT as graphic as others I have seen on other (Hollywood) movies. The movie itself was decent, but the beginning was pretty wild, and did almost make me puke out of pure motion sickness.
 Woman-hating December 2, 2008
This film is exploitation at its worst. Not only indulging in rape but also locating the film's ultimate trauma in the woman's hidden pregnancy, as if rape is not a violent enough act when the victim isn't pregnant. Disgusting, and everyone who likes this film scares the hell out of me.
Monica Bellucci is the most beautiful woman I have ever seen in hollywood November 7, 2008
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
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
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
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.
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