Outrage! [DVD]

when this film is perking it is a wondrous thing. when this film is slow it is very slow. the acting is both actively tender and silent film exaggerated. but I grew attached to the leads and mostly enjoyed it throughout. give it a chance.

The DVD was in excellent shape. The movie quality was excellent. All in all great product to purchase.

It sounds awful.Antonio Banderas is dubbed to sound like a California college student.Really ruins the movie for me

Terrible. Would not play, threw away.

satisfied

The story follows Ana (played wonderfully by the beautiful Francesca Neri) as a sharp shooter performing in the circus. She falls in love with a journalist named Marcos (Antonio Banderas). After a brutal rape and several murders later, she finds herself on the run with Marcos chasing after her.The DVD story would have you believe that this is a typical Rape/ Revenge flick where the rape occurs early on and the rest of the film is the woman seeking vengeance. But the rape doesn't occur until 40 minutes in giving the viewers plenty of time to get to know Ana and like her character. She looks like Rachel Weisz and is quite impulsive and quirky. Her character is very likable and you will find her emotionally honest even when she is lying. This will make watching her downfall a little difficult to bear.You watch Ana fall in love with Marcos, make love with him, and then you see the excitement in her eyes when she runs to her door one fateful night expecting Marcos on the other side. The gang rape is brutal, but most of the violence (outside of the rape) is implied. The revenge part takes place very soon after. The rest of the film is Ana and Marcos trying to reach each other one last time, making several mistakes along the way, and a very climactic reunion at the end.Where the story veers into stupidity, is when Marcos sees the news story of the rapists murders, assumes Ana is the killer without even speaking to her, and then proceeds to rat on her instantly. That amore'. Soon after, Ana visits a doctor for her excessive bleeding (ahem, vaginal, due to the "bottle assault"), the doctor immediately calls the police on her the moment Ana leaves the room. Rape Advocacy, yeah! And get this...the doctor then goes on the radio giving the victims name and detailing her vaginal wounds! Ethics? We don't need no stinking Ethics!Ultimately, this film is incredibly depressing and bleak. The ending will not make you feel any better about what transpired before hand. The victim gets no justice and she is punished for being victimized. A cop even refers to her as "the bitch."Favorite Quote: "I said I'd follow you to Hell, well, here I am," spoken by Marcos to Ana after he finally catches up to her at the end.DVD Extras: Scene Selection and brief Film Facts. There is an Italian and English dubbed version. The dubbed version is terrible and takes away from the atmosphere. Plus, I know what Antonio Banderas sounds like and I can assure you that was not it.Bottom Line: Very dreary film with not much to recommend here except Francesca Neri's great performance.Rating: 6/10Molly Celaschi

There are so many things that are messed up with this DVD that one really has to go through a list of all the things that can go wrong with a movie, especially one that is transfered from another language like Spanish to English.This DVD was viciated thoroughly, first of all, because of the aweful syncronization effort. You can actually see how the lips of the actors are moving but for a slight moment no words are heard from them! In the beginning of this movie its really terrible, simply cause its so obvious.Then there is the picture quality, although the movie is from 1993 it looks as if it had been filmed in the late 1970s (no joke), or at least my Malaysian version of it. Needless to say that is totally unacceptable.Then there's the story, or what claims to be a story. I mean, who came up with this unbelievably lame story? Antonio Banderas dosen't look believable as the love sick man chasing a circus women around that he just met. But far worse is the behavior of this women, who goes on a killing spree that simply defies any logic. Especially the scene where she kills two cops feels absolutely contrived. When it comes to acting, its really only Banderas that manages to hold this botched mess together, and from witnessing a total desaster.In the end, you're better off skipping this one. As others have indicated this movie was probably much better in the original Spanish version, without the rediculous synchronization efforts that failed virtually at every lame attempt.

le film aurait pu poser des questions ou scruter le coté social(quand un policier traite la fugitive d'une insulte typiquement machiste a Banderas sans chercher le pourquoi du comment),on sent le moment de faire passer ce qui était de droit mais Saura loin de ses débuts semble-t'il préfère(?) rester en surface,au point de paraitre lisse,il touche un peu trop mincement a l'histoire d'amour,après tout naissante,de la psychologie de cette femme de cirque intéressante puis opaque,au suspens,s'il en est d'une poursuite qui n'en est pas vraiment une car presque pas traitée,puis le coté dramatique,traité séchement ce qui là est un plus,mais une touche par ci par la,des lignes rajoutées aurait donné de l'épaisseur,de la suite a un film qui ne se veut au final qu'une simple tragédie,ce qui pour certain sera assez surtout a une époque ou la violence était si sudaine est parfois spectaculaire,au-dela des films d'actions et ou peu donner d'éxplications si jamais il y en avaient,un peu dommage.

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