Revenge is less than sweet, to say the least, in particular for the audience, veering between sickening and pathetically pornographic.
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11/11/07
Descent (2007)
24 %
Reviews Counted: 25 Fresh: 6 Rotten:19 Average Rating: 4.4/10
Consensus:
Descent has the potential to make a statement about sexual violence, but falls flat by focusing on revenge rather than Rosario Dawson's emotional state.
Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins
Theatrical Release: Aug 10, 2007 Limited
Synopsis: Rosario Dawson produces and stars in DESCENT, a project directed by her real-life friend Talia Lugacy, and one close to the actress's heart. A very dark film, DESCENT assures viewers from the very first frame that something is going to go wrong. There's just something off about the colors, the... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Rosario Dawson, Chad Faust, Vanessa Ferlito, Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Tracie Thoms
Director: Talia Lugacy
Screenwriter: Talia Lugacy, Brian Priest
Producer: Rosario Dawson, Morris S. Levy, Talia Lugacy
Composer: Alex Moulton
Screenwriter: Talia Lugacy, Brian Priest
Producer: Rosario Dawson, Morris S. Levy, Talia Lugacy
Composer: Alex Moulton
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08/30/07
Dawson, armed not with a whole lot of dialogue but her endlessly eloquent face, makes each note of the character's journey pierce, whether with pain or ecstasy.
08/19/07
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08/18/07
It's been a while since we saw a demagogic feminist exploitation revenge drama, and Descent, while top-heavy with 'agenda,' is shrewdly done.
08/15/07
Though a clearly gifted new filmmaker, Lugacy doesn't get a handle on the combustible material, and she gets scalded in the process.
08/14/07
Ugliness of story, character and technique cannot hold a movie audience and do more harm than good towards seeking a professed corrective.
08/12/07
A hollow fabrication in the pursuit of someone's sick idea of redemption. I didn't pay to see it... but I want my wasted time back.
08/11/07
There's too much arty writhing and too little concrete character development.
08/10/07
Look-at-me-I'm-a-filmmaker photography, pacing that has all the thrills of waiting in line at the post office and an utterly predictable plot combine to make the movie even worse than the hacky chick revenge fantasy now showing on channel 186 of your box.
08/10/07
No moviegoer has done anything to deserve the images that director Talia Lugacy would throw in their face.
08/10/07
[Dramatizes] the experience and the psychological aftermath of rape with a vividness I’ve never seen in an American film.
08/10/07
Top Critic
Descent is the head-slappingly awful picture that turns rape into a comedy.
08/09/07
The movie is just a vicious, pathetic excuse for Lugacy to live out her own twisted hate-fantasies on the big screen.
08/09/07
There's a potentially groundbreaking story lurking somewhere in Descent, but it stops at the revenge, thereby robbing us of what might have been a vitally important moviegoing experience.
08/09/07
Top Critic
Apart from its obvious exploitation element and disjointed second act, the movie achieves a cool momentum by sheer force of the intimate power play that takes place over the course of a slow build-up toward its sex-schock finale.
08/09/07
It's a lot like a '70s exploitation movie, with its determination to seduce and shock the viewer with alternating currents of electrical stimulus, and its weird combination of arty arch-decadence and neo-Victorian moralizing.
08/09/07
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