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I watched MARTYRS last night after the urging of many people. One of these people went so far as to claim it one of the best, and most powerful films he has seen in the last 20 or so years. I found it to being complete garbage. Rarely do I have the reacttion to a movie like I did last night. I was dealing with it, and kind of liking the tension in the first half hour of the movie, then the brutality in the house was without a doubt an eye opener. Once the big change happens at the 1 hour mark, however, I was done. Completely done. That final hour was some of the most godawful film going experience I have ever had. I was both bored out of my skull and disgusted by what was on the screen at the same time.

Honestly, I would rather sit through SUCKER PUNCH again, and that is saying a LOT.

The torture aspect was the final 1/2 hour of the film. No dialogue was spoken for the most part, just constant visions of Anna being punched, kicked, forced to eat that vile looking food, then back to being punched, kicked, strangled, forced to eat the vile stuff. Oh, we get to see her gain pleasure from urinating. Then we get to see her skinned.

I actually didn't find anything all that intelligent about the ending, or the film in general. I was actually a little bit lost on what we were seeing them doing. I guess it was all the . . .

SPOILERS!!!!


idea of them using these people to being them to the brink of death, and hoping they saw the after life and being able to relay the message back to them. I didn't really see the point in it all. The surprises that everybody else ran into, I didn't really find. Once Lucy killed the dad, I knew the family would die. Once we saw that the ghostly creature following Lucy was the lady in the torture place, I knew she was all in Lucy's head (I was pretty sure of it all along actually) and knew that Lucy would end up killing herself. Once Anna found the secret place, and I saw how intricate it was, I had a feeling we would get a secret society, especially since we had at least a half hour to go. Once they showed up, I knew Anna was going to die. It just wasn't the type of film to have a "survivor" stand up and fight the evil nasty things.

I think I am the wrong person to actually make judgements on these types of films. I just do NOT like the movies that start where you just know everybody is going to die. This is that type of film. I would rather be holding my breath, knowing that the obvious person will be surviving, but not knowing which other ones will make it out, rather than knowing they are all going to die. The cheesy happy endings of certain films is always better than the dreaded "they're all dead" types of things. This is why a film as crappy as SUCKER PUNCH gets a bit of a higher mark from me. I knew somebody was going to survive, they just had to in that type of movie. But in all honesty it was not the person I expected. From there very beginning of MARTYRS, I knew they would all be dead. That just removes so much of the interest for me.

Joan of Ark would be a true story. I am also going to bet that Joan was a much more interesting and amazing person than anybody in the film I watched last night was made out to being. So just her story itself is interesting enough to warrant a viewing. Hopefully that makes sense. It is Joan's journey that is interesting, since we all know the end result.

I should probably state that I did enjoy the first SAW movie a lot. I found the second film to being just OK, and the third to being crap. I liked aspects of HOSTEL, but was not a big fan of it. I don't have any agenda against the so called Torture Porn sub-genre, I just found MARTYRS an ugly film with very little going for it.