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I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE 3: VENGEANCE IS MINE is another mindless hate-filled addition to the series, barely any different to the two films which preceded it. Okay, the formula is slightly different this time around, as the main character isn't raped at the outset, but the grisly revenge killings are, while the self-help circle material is frankly a bit dull. The problems with this film are myriad, but the weak writing is the foremost issue, with one-dimensional characters and tepid pacing throughout.For the sadists among us, there are some very graphic and nasty death scenes here, meted out to men who are more than deserving of their fate. Even so, this ventures into torture porn territory and would be quite disturbing if the CGI effects weren't so terrible. Elsewhere, lukewarm, occasionally histrionic acting also mars the experience, along with a cast filled with unlikeable characters, leaving this a sadistic chore for only the most hardened gore-seekers.
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It's quite amazing to think how far this franchise has come, since that 1974 original white trash pic, with bad sound and acting. It's a great franchise, where this third installment is a refreshing one, in the fact, it doesn't follow the path of plot to the others, with just the victim killing her rapists, one by one in a frenzy of bloody violence and madness, and the movie ends. Noted this one's much gorier than it's predecessors, and really has a lot going for it. Sarah Butler returns from the original, and it's much appreciated. This good actress is even better here, than in the first. She's changed cities and names, and still the memory of all that terror, has made her man phobic. She has murderous fantasies, like just going radge with a knife on anyone who hacks her off, in that moment, where instead she represses it, instead, so you know what this can can lead to. Hey, a lot of us have the same thing, but it's after the moment, where we visualize violent and punishing retribution, on people who have done us wrong. Now known as Angela (Butler), not Jennifer Hills, she joins a rapists support group, one, a father (Doug Mckeon, would you believe? yeah the cute boy from Golden Pond, all grown up now) who lost her daughter who suicided, where she was raped, prior by a beefcake of a sh..ty gym owner, who of course got off. Why? Cliché answer here-no physical evidence. So we need someone out there who must become female judge and jury. Forming a friendship with a young uninhibited woman victim in the group, where obviously her attack, has really changed her view on things, this is cut short, weeks later, when she is killed, by the guy who put her here, so its up to, you know who, the beautiful woman with the knife and the long fixed angry glare to take matters into own hands. And when authorities step in, that really messes with Butler's plans, while putting her in a pickle. The head of the councelling session, really got on my nerves, I really wish Butler's violent fantasy or pouncing on her was real. ISOYG3, was quite a welcoming surprise, where in it's opening, with a couple of scenes together, I was deeply worried with "Are you f..kin kidding me?", but no kidding, this is probably the best out of the franchise. It's offers real messages, and truths about rape victims, where one line, about forgiveness, cut deep. The movie has good acting by Butler, and her late rape victim friend, who's even better while, Mckeon was just fantastic as the grieving father. The other strong performance is that of the pastry faced Harley Jane Kojak (remember her?) as the soft spoken therapist. There are two twists, near the end, the first, a stupid one, I didn't buy, but does makes sense, if you think about it. The second is right near the end, on the couch, which is a beauty, and funny too. Gore hounds will lap in up, with more castrations, and squirting blood, one scene on an old guy who can't be reformed, involving vaso and a pipe + a sledgehammer. A really fun horror offering in this first one, you shouldn't pass up, especially if a fan of this rape franchise.