Alice C If you want to watch women beat the hell out of each other this might be your movie. Otherwise this movie had a pretty weak plot, everyone ends up in a body bag one way or another. I guess the morale of the story is don't go to bars and meet strangers. This was like a Hunger Games version of women kidnapped and forced into fighting to the end for their loved ones and their own life. As if a group could effectively be out murdering random strangers who's female family member went missing and no one would see a pattern. Of course some of the women that are housed in cells closer together bond in some way but it is ultimately a fight to the end for only 1 woman to be left standing. The end just makes the entire movie a complete waste. After all the torment you'd think she wouldn't throw her guns away and just run haphazardly down the middle of the road but yep that is what she does. And thus ends your 90 minutes of violence.

finetunes How many times did Sabrina turn her back on an adversary before she had finished them off??? Obviously, this movie relied solely on the violence and revenge angle for entertainment, so why didn't they have some contestants refuse to fight so we could see their family members being killed or tortured? Why didn't the writers have Sabrina kill all the guests at the end? Why didn't the guests flee when they saw the 2 guards being killed? Why did Sabrina throw her guns away while, once again, turning her back. I guess the writers were stunt men because they "wrote what they know" leaving out plot and even logic from the movie. Rachel Nickels' salary must have taken up 90% of the budget. Know why she got killed off at the beginning? Because she begged the director to get her out of this movie as fast as possible. And what's the big deal about Zoe Bell? Wow, she's a stunt woman but they didn't have her doing anything special in this movie, no ingenious kills or fantastic Olympian moves, she's surely not eye candy except for her silicone work. I would have given another star if there had been some clothes being torn off or someone had expertly executed some t***y twisters. What a horrible predictable movie except the one pleasant exception when Zoe got killed at the end, which I cheered. And finally, the movie broke one of my rules for movies - there must be at least one likable character. I didn't cover all my pet peeves about the movie because life is too short to spend too much time on a time waster. If you must must watch this movie, watch the beginning set-up then skip to the last 10 minutes, you won't have missing anything.

floatingpolarbear This was a great action/horror flick with excellent acting and many touching scenes as well as some gruesome ones. The characters bring you inside them and you feel the psychological torture that precedes the physical one. Each fight scene is unique and the dialogue is superbly crafted. You can feel the female touch in the making of this movie as the actors are not presented as titillation but as human beings undergoing the most extreme situation. I wish there was more elaboration on the purpose of the cult. It reminded me a bit of the atmosphere of Martyrs, bringing that sense of intrigue and shock. I would definitely see a sequel.

ivan-campari I'm a huge fan of women fighting and action women in general, it can pretty easily turn me on. This doesn't however prevent me from thinking that when you make such a violent and sadistic movie you have to legitimize it with at least a decent storyline. Because if it just becomes about watching women beat each other to death, then it's just pure perversion. I would have been OK with this thin storyline if the fights weren't to the death or if they didn't last so long (most of the movie). On the other hand, I was very impressed by Zoe Bell and I found her performance electrifying. She's the only thing that prevents this whole movie to completely fall apart, since the rest of the cast is not very good, with the sole exception of Doug Jones. To sum up, this movie can be pretty entertaining at times, the leading actress is impressive and you will see a lot of women fighting. But its excesses are too gratuitous.