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10/18/08
Boarding Gate (2007)
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Reviews Counted:41
Fresh:11
Rotten:30
Average Rating:4.7/10
Consensus: Boarding Gate has little substance beneath its faux-thriller surface, and marks a step down from director Olivier Assayas' usual work.
Synopsis: Director Oliver Assayas has established his name by crafting well-made erotic thrillers like DEMONLOVER and CLEAN. The director sticks closely to his guns by adding another similarly themed entry... [More]
Starring: Asia Argento, Michael Madsen, Carl Ng, Kelly Lin
Director: Olivier Assayas
Reviews for Boarding Gate
Boarding Gate’s decadent fancies are appalling.
03/19/08
Writer-director Olivier Assayas must have been working out some personal demons to make something as embarrassing as Boarding Gate, the most trite and trivial piece of sleaze since Abel Ferrara's Snake Eyes.
03/27/08
absolutely silly
03/21/08
Call it a cinema of guilty pleasure, and don't worry if you fall asleep in your seat after the sex scene is over. You won't be alone.
03/20/08
What it all means is up for grabs, but for connoisseurs of sadomasochistic nastiness, it’s a must-see.
04/17/08
[Director Assayas] may have something serious to say about the brutal impersonality of global capitalism, yet he’s caught somewhere between insight and exploitation.
03/17/08
Top Critic[Director] Assayas is out of his element here, and the encounters have no snap: It’s like one of those two-character plays in which the frequent pauses are filled with the audience’s coughing spasms.
03/17/08
There are long, droning bouts of dialog about nothing meant to link scenes together, but all Boarding Gate really does is fixate on watching Asia Argento do stuff.
03/22/08
The film hasn't much substance beneath its showy surface.
03/05/08
Chock full of elements that never spark beyond one-sheet dimension.
05/19/07
A mostly dull and nonsensical attempt at a revenge thriller that trips and falls flat on its face far too many times to stand up to some of [Assayas'] stronger work.
03/18/08
We don't want to see Asia Argento talking about her history of drugs and wild sex, we want to see her doing it.
03/21/08
There's basically only one reason to see Olivier Assayas's self-consciously hypermodern, meta-sleazy, English-French-Chinese-language globo-thriller Boarding Gate, and her name is Asia Argento.
03/18/08
Argento never engages us as a character; she's like some porny dress-up (or, rather, dressdown) doll with a plastic visage and hollow head.
05/21/07
In the "B" movie days, a story like this would shoot by in about 70 minutes without time to pick holes in the motives. But Assayas takes a bloated, boring 106 minutes.
04/10/08
A ridiculous poseur thriller that seems to be made up of the slow moments from Hong Kong action films and Euro-flashy stuff like Run Lola Run.
03/21/08
Like just about everything in Boarding Gate, the finale suggests that its creators have been watching too many other movies with similar premises and payoffs.
03/28/08
There's something sad about the maker of Irma Vep being transfixed by such emptily stylish nonsense.
03/20/08
Did you ever want to like a movie and wish it were better so that you could? On the other hand, you could say that any sighting of Asia Argento showing off her thighs can't be all bad.
03/03/08
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