KnotMissPriceless Why so much hype?

KnotStronger This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Moviemanic22 'Bound to vengeance' is one of those movies that begins to loose steam while you approach half way in to the middle. Which is the reason I had fallen asleep for a couple of minutes when I first saw it last year. However I had another opportunity and decided to give it my full attention. I will be honest and say that I actually enjoyed it. Although I wished that there was more meat to the bone. This is a small independent movie that had a limited theatrical release. The film is about a woman who frees herself from her captor after being held hostage in a basement for almost 6 months. Instead of going to the police she decides to take matters in to her own hands and use the captor to lead her to set free other women who are in similar circumstances. This forms the basis for three quarters of the film's running time. On the script level it falls short on story development. I often wondered why there could not be more to the plot. The film reminded me of a 2012 movie I saw named 'Eden' starring Jamie Chung, which had a similar theme and also focused on the sex trafficking theme in greater detail. But I would assume the script writer chose to take an alternate approach. Tina Ivlev is the soul of the movie. Her acting, emotions and expressions are on the mark and gets under the skin of the character realistically. She carries the entire movie on her shoulders and breathes air in to a weak script. No pun intended but I'm not sure why she was held hostage for 6 months. Was she waiting her turn? And how did she learn to fire a gun so fast?. Possibly she had practised before? Personally I wouldn't see the film more than once, in spite the fact I enjoyed it. But the surprise ending makes it worthwhile to get through to the end.

trashgang Rather simple story line but this time it do works out fine due a few reasons. The way it was acted did work as did the effects used. Most of the effects are done off-camera but they are never that cruel that you are missing the impact, what we do see is how the result is on the bodies. In other words, a low budget flick has to hide the fact that there isn't that much of money. Still, it do has a rather brutal overlook because when the abducted girl is taking her revenge it's without mercy. Even as some things are done off-camera it do has a few gory moments like the scene with the spikes or the shot through the head.Maybe it's all a bit exaggerated with the way all those girls are abducted but somehow it didn't bother me at all. A surprisingly good horror flick, as seen a thousand times before with all that revenge revival but clocking in at around 80 minutes is what makes it work too.Gore 1/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 2,5/5 Story 2,5/5 Comedy 0/5

kosmasp There are a couple of movies that tell us, that they start where others end. This is one of the cases where its more than true. You get to see what happens, when a situation sort of gets resolved. Or does it? There is always questions and character motivation might seem flawed here. But it all has an internal logic that works very well for the movie and the viewer too.The suspense is almost killing, but that's how it is supposed to be. At the end there is something that happens, that I guess puts people off (if the initial premise didn't do that already, which you'll either find enticing and good and original or boring and brainless). But if you bear with the movie, it will reward you ...

bob_meg Every once in a while a small film comes along that you think will be just another pointless schlep up the same genre cliff, peaking at a dead end. Instead, it takes every expected detour, tosses it out the window, spits in your face and floors it, driving you straight off that well-worn cliff. And you love every minute of it.That's "Bound to Vengeance" in a nutshell and the "to" in the title is important.Jose Manuel Cravioto (whose previous directorial efforts consisted mostly of well-received shorts and docs) along with writers Rock Shaink and Keith Kjornes (who also acts here), have crafted a savage, viscerally memorable road trip. It's one that our protagonist Eve (Tina Ivlev, in a lithely nuanced performance) takes very willingly, even obsessively, after she clocks her scumbag white-slaver jailer Phil (Richard Tyson) with a brick and then makes him an offer he can't refuse: disclose the locations of the other girls (of whom he has Polaroids) who've been imprisoned as Eve just was --- or get shot in the face. And this is the catch: if you can get past the basic implausibility of someone who has just been starved, raped, and tortured for weeks deciding it's way more appealing to save other people than herself, then "Bound to Vengeance" has you, and good luck shaking or turning it off. And happily, there is a reason for Eve's zeal, but you won't understand that unless you watch the film, into the end credits.Then again, happily and amazingly, EVERYTHING in this film makes sense. The script is really THAT tight and that's odd for a white slavery flick. It's going to give you a lot of story and character development that are foreign in most of these types of films. It's not a white slavery film in the strictest sense of the word --- it isn't lurid or snuffy, it takes no pleasure in the degradation of women. It's quick, gritty, and violent and it appears to delight in its dark look, which (though nicely photographed) gives every frame the impression of being dredged in motor oil --- and that's a compliment. This kind of film SHOULD look that way. It doesn't treat this issue lightly or as a convenient vehicle for exploitational entertainment.Another offbeat element of BTV is the performance by the main perv Phil. Phil is not likable, he's a huge dirt-bag, but Tyson brings lots of interesting layers to the character, keeping you guessing, wondering, wanting to know more about him. As he says, he's just the zoo-keeper. There are bigger guys in charge. Or are there? You never really know until the final half of the film.And to round out our attachment to Eve (and break up and lighten the oppressive mood), we get snippets of her back-story in home movies shot from a phone, which become vitally important to the story in the end, as well as making Ivlev's character even more riveting.It's hard to predict what genre fans will make of this film. But, love it or hate it, I bet you won't forget the ride.