Irreversible

Rating:
Summary: The Movie Should be called, "Terrible!"
Review: I have seen many movies, and have enjoyed many of them; however this is by far the worst film. First, the movie starts from backwards to forwards, similiar to Momento. In the beginning of the movie, the camera work could make anyone dizzy. The worst part of the film without question was the rape scene. This is the longest rape scene (about 10 minutes) that I have ever seen and it was very brutal. Lastly, I have been going to movie theatres for a long time, but I never experienced a reaction from moviegoers as was the case here. Halfway through the film, most of the people in the theatre left! It was incredible to see people walk out of the theartre, all of whom were very upset about the contents of the movie.

Rating:
Summary: Not at all what it was hyped to be
Review: According to many of the reviews I read the film was "better than Momento," which turned out to be false. Though the camera work was somewhat original it was over done and really not necessary. The story was far too obvious and many of the "great" scenes went on long past what was needed. This movie should never be compared with Momento, they're completely different movies meant for completely different audiences, and I am not that audience.

Rating:
Summary: bootyful
Review: I gave it 5 stars just for monica's ass . . . what? the movie? . . oh yeah the movie is great too . . . but dammnnnnnn . . . . that is one fine ass . . .

Rating:
Summary: Heart-wrenching, Disturbing and Masterful...
Review: Very seldom do I see a movie that is as brilliant as it is
disturbing. Irreversible is just that.

First off, this film is not for everyone. It is ultra-realistically violent. It breaks your heart. The camera work can be extremely nauseating at times, but yet, it enhances the atmosphere of the entire film. The soundtrack creates additional atmosphere that I have only heard duplicated by Angelo Badalamenti for Fire Walk With Me (David Lynch).

I don't think I have ever witnessed such masterful film making as Gaspar Noe accomplished with this movie. I was cringing watching the fire extinguisher scene, my head actually throbbing. I was shocked to see that the wrong person was killed. I cried watching what happens to Alex in the underpass. I cried even harder later in the story's reverese telling when you find out about Alex being expectant. I felt for Marcus and Pierre - both being so in love with Alex, yet, after what happens to her, wanting to take such different courses of action. Just as the the website for this movie says "Time changes everything", and you see that with the opening sequence in the nightclub.

If you want to see a cinematic masterpiece, one that stirs your emotions, makes you feel like no other movie has made you feel, Irreversible is the movie for you.

Rating:
Summary: Truly awful
Review: I love movies and almost never hate one. I hated this movie. The camerawork at the start of the movie almost gave me motion sickness. The story was violent and boring at the same time- not an easy feat. I truly cannot understand the good reviews it received.

Rating:
Summary: Film Formidable
Review: "The vengeance is irreversible, as the wound... as each act, as everything" - Gaspar Noé
This is not a film for everybody, that's something you should take into account first. It demands a complete surrender from the spectator to understand the "gratuitous violence" that some want to point. This movie only has two violent moments, very disturbing, I admit it, but completely necessary... you'll live through the characters (thanks to a very intelligent filming technique) their love, their motives, their pain, fear, rage...
It's nightmare from where you can't go back, each act you commit is irreversible... Maybe you'll want to see this movie more than once, maybe never more, but it will stay in you mind forever, for sure, remember it's irreversible...

Rating:
Summary: Film formidable
Review: "The vengeance is irreversible, as the wound... as each act, as everything" - Gaspar Noé

This is not a film for everybody, that's something you should take into account first. It demands a complete surrender from the spectator to understand the "gratuitous violence" that some want to point. This movie only has two violent moments, very disturbing, I admit it, but completely necessary... you'll live through the characters (thanks to a very intelligent filming technique) their love, their motives, their pain, fear, rage...
It's nightmare from where you can't go back, each act you commit is irreversible... Maybe you'll want to see this movie more than once, maybe never more, but it will stay in you mind forever, for sure, remember it's irreversible...

Rating:
Summary: Defines 'gratuitous violence'.
Review: Although I realize Gaspar Noe's entire idea was to shock viewers, I can't help but be disgusted by him and his film. 'Irreversible' is certainly a film that challenges viewers. However, not in any conventional way. Noe challenges viewers to keep watching as a woman is brutually raped for 11 minutes. This scene is shown in all its horror without a single cut. The film is structured somewhat like "Memento" in that is is shown backwards. This is one of the redeming qualities of the film. The film opens with one of the most violent and realisitc looking scenes where a man is beaten with a fire extinguisher for sometime after he is alrady dead. His skull is smashed into what resembels a crushed melon. It seems like the ideas and and intesity of the film could have come across without all of this excessive brutality. The plot is basically that a man is searching for the man who raped his girlfriend. When in fact the true rapist is Noe himself.

Rating:
Summary: Breathtaking
Review: I was at first hesistant to see this movie, due to the fact that up to the point of actually watching it, I had heard hundreds of comments laced with gore and disgust about some of the content of this French production. And, truth be told, they were not exaggerated.

However, there's a reedeming quality to this film which in one word can be stated as: art. In a visual aspect, in the way the story line unfolds, in the acting, in the director's beautiful play with color, even in the accompanying soundtrack (which I also bought), the French-film flair for challenging its viewers while retaining a certain 'je ne sais quoi' is beautifull carried through.

This is a film not only for art-house cinema lovers but anyone willing to explore new forms of storytelling and visual play. On the other hand, it's not relevent to a viewer who defines cinema by Hollywood standards.

Rating:
Summary: A New French Classic.
Review: If you ever wanted to watch a man's face get smashed in, in the most
realistically possible way possible in a film?

Now here's your chance?

"Irreversible" directed Gaspar Noe. (French)

I would place Irreversible on the same level as "Funny Games" and
"Confessions of a Serial Killer".

Irreversible is a seriously [messed] up film, but does not exploit the
violence.

Without fail, you must watch this film, (by yourself, not with one of your
fiancées, girlfriends, mothers, dates or grandmas!!!!!!)

Read my review below: (after you have watched it!)

First of all I want to thank my friend Tom, for recommending Gaspar Noe's
Irreversible. This was truly a stunning film in all aspects from the story,
to the visuals and much credit goes to actors for their incredible work. All
credit goes to Noe for his inventive and innovative vision. Some might
complain that the story structure is similar to Momento because of it's
reverse stoy line but to compare Irreversible to Momento would an insult.
Momento was clever where as Noe's film was dare I say, is on a genius level.
This is a director who understands film and has rewritten film to his own
language. The whole dizzying, spinning camera work through out the film was
his language to create even more tension and anxiety rather than just to
show off visually.

Momento is soda pop!

Irreversible is art.

The violence and the rape scene looked all too real, and that was the point,
not too pretty eh folks?

Probably the most tense beginning I have ever seen in a film and what a
soundtrack, that thumping beat went in sync with my erratic heartbeat!

(I loved the extras, the music extras on the dvd, "Outrage" is my
favourite.)

A dangerous film because we could identify with the main character's sense
of rage and wanting to act on revenge, but also a moral film because there
are choices in the way we act and the consequences of it. I saw the ending

(beginning) as how life could be and should be.....such as enjoying peace at
a nearby park or reading a damn good book as an alternative to violence in
life.

Heavy with the "tunnel" symbolism, perhaps representing, life, the mind and
the human anatomy?

Well, all I can say was "WOW!"

I look forward to Noe's future cinematic visions