It starts off pretty good! You've got the girls standing up to the perverts, but really after that it's just women stealing and breaking shit from innocent people (and like 1 bad guy).The characters feel undeveloped and everyone only has one or two character trait, I know that it's not possible to write a story behind all of the girls but they just needed to focus on some of them! The "main" character legs doesn't come off like a good person in the end she's just manipulative and mean, in the end they show some stuff from the past and you're supposed to feel sorry about Maggie(or whatever her name was) losing legs but legs just wasn't a like able character. This was the problem with all of the characters, you just didn't feel for them! I didn't know anything about the character who killed mr Kellogg's!Some things felt like they were thrown in there! Like the racism, when they built it up it made me think the the gang would realize that things wasn't like they were supposed to be and that they'd change BUT NO! The black girl just went home! Like what the actual fuck? Now it just feels like it were thrown in there to show that "Oh no racism is bad"! Another thing whitch they just left was the guy gang! When they were shown driving past each other I really thought there would be some fight between the two gangs! Well nothing happened and they just left it there.(I also don't get the old man because he didn't really do much) Well overall I didn't think it was good but watch it yourself and form your own opinion I'm no professional and it might be right up your alley!Hasse Hansson 43 Denmark

One of my favourite stories about a group of teenage girls who form a group to get back at their society, which they feel is very unfair towards them. This film is a much more realistic adaptation to the novel by Joyce Carol Oates than the original 1996 version. I love the storyline and was very excited to watch this film, having seen the original and read the book. However the acting is no where near as good as the 1996 version (you must be mad to make a new version of an Angelina Jolie movie?!), and I would also suggest reading the novel before watching, as it makes everything a lot clearer. If I had not read the novel prior to watching, there are some parts which I doubt I would have understood properly. Definitely recommend this film to anyone who loves a film with a great female lead.

Now - this is a totally different film from the 1996 version - that was an Angelina Joly display - and I loved it. The 2012 film is so much darker and has so much more integrity than film nr. 1 - yet the sexual sphere was less in this film. The boys got away totally - I mean the high-school thugs - but it concentrated on the promiscuous dirty old men. But than again that would not have worked without the gangs physical involvement. I do'nt get that - "dirty old men" are formed in early years- why not address it - like nr. 1 did. I have not red the book, only seen both movies but I am bewildered. I liked nr 1 because of Angelina Joly, but I liked nr 2 better because of it's message - STAY OUT OF CRIME !!!!

I confess that I have always loved men's stories: hard, brutal but also touching, poignant. Stories about pure manhood. And believe it or not, but that doesn't make me hate the same schemes with women only. Mixing up of men and gals is not always appropriate. I love features such as John Ford's SEVEN WOMEN, A GUN FOR JENNIFER or Paul Henreid's GIRLS ON THE LOOSE, and so many other movies. Tales where women have strong and powerful characters, harder than males. All this shown with a perfect sensitive talent. This movie makes no exception. Tha characters in this feature are most brilliant, described in a flawless way. It is a 143mn film and there is no length. A delightful movie. I guess it is based on actual events. I don't know the actresses, but I repeat, they are absolutely outstanding. I particularly loved the lead character: Legs. Laurent Cantet gives here his best performance.