Sounds like a bunch of USC film grads are writing these "10" rated reviews. Absolute garbage "film marking". They keep saying it's "Honest"....there's something very NOT-HONEST about making a film purely to intentionally disturb the viewers (their words.) An anal rape scene in a hallway....yeah ok...disturbing...but only because the "filmmaker" felt he needed to put it in a film. Besides all the BS propaganda "disturbing" crap....there's soooooo much useless dialogue...in every scene. It just goes on and on and on like each scene will never end...and for no reason besides stretching each scene to make this garbage "film" longer. The camera work...OMG. Let me just take a camera and jump from one actor to the next so you can't focus on the really crap set design and call it "ground breaking". Give me a break. If you're into artsy-crap movies then I'm sure you'll love this and be forever changed and always look back on this as THE GREATEST FILM since...well....since EVER. But if you're not one of these film school grads that will never make anything beyond there silly little short films (that they think will change the world) then you'll absolutely hate this GARBAGE.

Series of events are unfolded in reverse, only to teach that, despite the initial apparent disappointment (a seemingly wrong man got his brains bashed in in a lovely scene which would be brutally satisfying if the target was right), and that a high class girl got apparently unjustly raped, we learn that in fact justice has been done after all. The murdered man was worthless, and the one who got away was in fact macro wise gay who actually and justly got an oversexed snobs privileged face remastered, to fit internal ugliness. A brutal, but honest way of checking white privilege. The two perverts at the beginning and the other two during the film got their privilege checked too - impotent frenchman got to go to prison after proving his masculinity with a little help of fire extinguisher, while ratbrained high class junkie got away with just his hand broken. Such is cosmic justice, and it is good.

"More cinema needs to be like this." Now I can understand how at first that might be misconstrued as a strange thing to say about a film like this, however allow me to explain. Sure, this film is absolutely brutal and incredibly hard to watch at times, but because of that it is also a thing of beauty. This film is showing us how fragile life really is. In the blink of an eye your world can be turned upside down. Now a lot of films set out to tell a similar message to that, but fail. And why do they fail? Because they are afraid to be bold, memorable and show everything that needs to be shown. This film never backs down in any way and I love it for that.I've always made it clear that I'm a huge fan of French cinema. The French have so much patience in their story-telling style. I love American films in their own way too, but I wish so badly that they weren't afraid to take the time to fully express them self like the French ones do so well. Some of the dialogue in this movie is exquisite. It's designed to break you, if the imagery hasn't already done so. In fact every single detail in this film is designed to destroy the audience - in a good way. In a way that will make this film stick with you until your dying day. I can't say enough good things about this film. Please see it if you haven't already. You'll be so pleased you did (even if you might not realise it at first).

Film Review: "Irreversible" (2002) - Taking on a bizarre approach of mixing conceptions of "Eyes Wide Shut" (1999) and "Memento" (2000) to make this picture work for itself in casting real-life married couple Monica Bellucci & Vincent Cassel to portray two Parisian middle class people, Alex & Marcus, going out for party at their friend's. Director Gaspar Noé, frequent guest in Cannes Film Festival's competition since his first feature "I Stand Alone" (1998), polarizes the 55th edition of Cannes with his also originally written film "Irreversible".The editorial intervenes scene by scene in reverse story-telling, exposing one night in Paris for the couple Alex & Marcus, who got separated over a minor dispute to fatal consequences for both characters, which all-time controversial representation of urban underpath rape of the character of Alex, who has not been prepared for a predator of the Parisian underworld with a free path of finishing his business of leaving behind the empty shell of Alex.Director Gaspar Noé gives his main characters no chance of conciliation, seeking no balance nor preaches any mercy that film becomes downhill and out experience, which nevertheless shares some over-stylish camera motions by Cinematographer Benoît Debie and honest acting by the at times over-enthusiastic couple Bellucci & Cassel, who hardly stand a chance to come full circle with their characters of an otherwise weak-on-suspense script that lives from the sensation-mongering violent explosions at the beginning plus the previously mentioned storyline's climatic scene, which at today's standards needed metal objects pushed into human flesh, blood on snow white skin and a limping rapist to come close to even with the audience.What is left of a so-called scandal film of the year 2002 is another acting couple after Richard Burton & Elizabeth Taylor in "Who's Afraid of Virgina Wolf" (1966), Tom Cruise & Nicole Kidman in "Eyes Wide Shut" (1999) and then the not-as-close to a classic considered "Irreversibel", where only a "Memento" (2000) copycat gimmick of telling the story backwards saves the picture from a total fall-out due to cliché-striving screenplay of expected relationship quarrels following into one false move of carelessness, which should have been just taking the cab for woman in an evening dress to get home at night.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)