I have never actually seen this movie before now in 2015, although I understand that it apparently did inspire a heap of other movies. So it was with some expectations and anticipation that I actually sat down to watch it.First of all, I will say that the story was actually good and the characters equally so. And the two women lead talents were doing really nice jobs with their given characters.That being said, then the potentially great movie was really butchered by the explicit sex scenes. It was just too much and too nasty. It was so tacky and sleazy. Director Virginie Despentes really massacred the movie with this adult contents.If this movie had been without the explicit sex scenes, then the movie would have received a seven out of ten stars rating from me. But given the sleazy level of the movie then I am compelled to rating it a mediocre five out of ten stars only.The DVD does come with a warning stating 'be warned - this film contains vivid scenes'. A warning that indeed should be taken to heart before watching the movie.

Former prostitute Virginie Despentes and former porn actress Coralie Trinh Thi co-directed this pedestrian crime thriller about two women on the rampage who have no qualms about killing anybody who gets in their way. Comparisons between this trash and Ridley Scott's acclaimed "Thelma and Louise" are inevitable, but "Baise-Moi" lacks virtually anything and everything that a good movie needs. Two ruthless thugs rape two women in a garage, and these two unfortunate girls, Nadine (Karen Lancaume) and Manu (Raffaëla Anderson), obtain guns and then launch a shooting spree. They rob a woman at an ATM and riddle several men. Most of the men and women that they murder don't deserve their fate. A lot has been written about the explicit sex scenes in this movie. Actually, you could probably find a much more explicit example of this kind of pornography. The two female directors do show penetration, but they don't show much of anything on the girls. Breast shots are held to an absolute minimum. The film contains no vestiges of humor. Nadine likes to rip the nylons that she wears before she has sex. These two are not only unsavory but also unsympathetic. The performances are forgettable. About the only scene that strikes an interesting note occurs early when one girl cries and struggles against the advances of one rapist and gains the attention of the other rapist. When the two rapists switch girls, Nadine neither cries nor struggles, and the rapist turns her loose. Perhaps there is a veiled message. The pornography takes up a minor percentage of the action. The dialogue--even in subtitles--is just as forgettable. Clocking in at 77 minutes, "Baise-moi" is mercifully brief. For the record, Nadine dies when she tries to hold up a store, and Manu is captured by the authorities as she contemplates suicide. No matter what you read about this superficial saga, you are wasting your time with his potentially interesting epic lensed from the perspective of the porn industry..

"Baise-moi" isn't the first film to combine un-simulated sex with elements of non-porn movies, actors and a "real" storyline. To mind come the infamous "Caligula", various exploitation pictures from the 70's and 80's, or Larry Clarks ill-fated "Ken Park", to name but a few.However, unlike the two movies mentioned above, who utilized explicit sex-scenes; "Baise-moi" comes across more as a porn-film that tries to disguise itself as a feminist's thriller. The basic story – two rape-victims go on a revenge-rampage – is simple, without much depth and the hardcore scenes seem randomly thrown in, for the sake of effect and scandal, rather than helping the films progress."Antagonists" Karen Bach and Raffaela Anderson definitely both can't live up to the skills of Geena Davis or Susan Sarandon; at no time able to disguise what they in reality are: porn-actresses. Same goes for the rest of the cast crew, who cannot deny the genre they've originated from (and, without doubt, will return to after this excursion into "real film"). I dare say that, in the times before straight-to-video (now internet) porn, there have been porn-productions, like the "Josefina Mutzenbacher"-films, that featured better actors and more solid story lines.It's unlikely that fans of feminist revenge-thrillers will be very interested in a film containing un-simulated sex scenes; for jaded gorehounds there is too little of that and people who're into cheap porn, well, those will know where to find that on the world wide web (or will forward during the cheap dialog and action scenes). Hence, the intended audience for this film escapes me.If you're looking for fresh, innovative or experimental thrillers with a shock-factor, I recommend the original "Funny Games" or "Man Bites Dog"; this film I can only give a sleazy 3 points from 10 and heart-felt 'je t'encule'.

I finally sat down to watch this movie. I was expecting just a mess of a film. However, I was greatly surprised by it. It is definitely not for everyone. It relies on Abel Ferrera for its story, no doubt. What struck me was the gritty portrayal of a France that is usually unseen (albeit a fictionalized one) in French cinema. It is not the lighthearted "Amelie" or others of the ilk. No one is really likable. French society is not ideal. The two leads are not professional (except in the porn business), and their acting shows that, but their characters are not supposed to have any more depth than they do. Many of the victims are sleazy, and I, as a viewer, do not know whether to root for the antiheroes or not. That is the directors' strength in the movie, and precisely their point. These women are empowered feminists (as is one of the directors) and show their anger at not only men, but the industry that creates a male-dominated and desexualizes women in a male-oriented way. Just look at how the female victim at the ATM looks! Look at how the women at the sex club are "enjoying" themselves! Look at how the men "force" the women into pleasing them or how they attempt to control them from doing what they want to do to feel pleasure (whether it is sexual or, in the case of the protagonists, killing). This movie is a critique on society. The two women had enough and, like Michael Douglas in "Falling Down," go on a cross-country killing spree just for a release from reality and to control it at the same time. There are many hardcore sex acts, and the film is not in the same vein as "Cafe Flesh," but, like that film, it swerves from sex acts to a "normal" storyline. Again, NOT for everyone, so don't go out and rush to rent. I wish it were a bit better with acting and film stock, but it's hardly worth the 4.4 that IMDb shows it having! I give it 7 of 10. E.