I Spit on Your Grave: Deja Vu

Pathetic, there are no actors, I swear they picked a few people off the street to continuously scream and read long boring monologue. Such a total disappointment, don't know how it even made it to a screen, should have been buried in a grave a spat on.

Awful acting, on what could have been a classic, the film drags on, the violence is tame, really was a waste of 2 hours 38 mins.

This is really sad you get excited about a movie the to see the mockery of what they did the acting is horrible and the storyline is even worse please stop messing with good movies

I saw the original "I Spit On Your Grave" when it was released in 1978, and it was one of the 70's grindhouse classics that stayed with me... incredibly sleazy but undeniably entertaining, gross, and yes, even shocking. When I read that the current "Deja Vu" release had cast Camille Keaton, who was the heroine in the original, I was immediately intrigued. I read two external reviews of the film on IMDB before I watched it, and both lauded the film, calling it "strong stuff," and "not for those with weak stomachs." Those reviewers clearly saw a very different film than I did. Clocking in at 148 minutes, this bloated, monotonous albatross was actually painful to watch.

I'm at a loss as to how anyone could have given thumbs up to the film the way it was written, shot and released. Did Meir Zarchi think that by casting Ms. Keaton - who adds nothing to the film and at times is embarrassing to watch - he was going to make this sequel the equivalent of "Gone With the Wind?" His screenplay couldn't have been less than 400 pages long. Every single scene in this film is AT LEAST 2-3 times longer than it should be... the extraneous, redundant, astoundingly monotonous dialogue just goes on and on, until it finally grinds the pace of the film to a complete halt. For a b-film, the actors are believable in their performances, but they just never, ever shut up. Even the ending becomes maddening... the director continues to add more and more small, absurd plot elements to incessantly draw it out. How long did it take to shoot this? With the incessant monologues and additions to the plot it must have been an endless production schedule.

ISOYG-DV doesn't even come remotely close to the creativity or sleaziness of the original... this should have been way over-the-top, as the original was the grandfather of revenge flicks. Instead, it's slow, dull and flat. Even the few special effects are totally unconvincing, and the plot remains disappointingly tame.

This could have passed as a mediocre exploitation film if they whittled it down to about an hour and fifteen minutes, which would have considerably picked up the film's tempo and relieved a lot of the boredom. As it is now, it's an interminable, frustrating mess.

I do enjoy the "I Spit On Your Graves", well for the most parts at least they were enjoyable and watchable. I happened to stumble upon this 2019 release by sheer random luck, and I hadn't even heard about it. So of course I jumped at the chance to watch it.

It was a nice treat to know that Camille Keaton would be returning to reprise her role from the original "I Spit On Your Grave" movie, but the allurement was short lived. Why? Because she is stripped and devoid of all proper acting talents - I am sad to say so, but it's true.

Regardless, the movie runs for a little bit more than 2 hours, I managed to endure through 1 hour and 2 minutes of the abysmal wreck that is "I Spit On Your Grave: Deja Vu", then I simply gave up.

Why? Well, two main reasons for me quitting; the first being that the acting in the movie was just laughable and so amateurish that it was an insult to the rest of the movies in the franchise. Second reason was because the movie was unfathomably slow-paced and ultra boring. Nothing of any much interest or worth had happened in that prolonged hour of suffering I endured, so why bother with the rest of the movie.

I must admit that I had expected more, a lot more from this movie, but director and writer Meir Zarchi failed horribly to deliver a movie that could live up to the previous movies. And with a statement that proclaims: "Cinema's top lethal lady vengeance returns in the most anticipated sequel of all time." there certainly was some expectations to live up to. These expectations were not even met in the least bit.

I have no intention of returning to watch the remaining hour of "I Spit On Your Grave: Deja Vu", because it was just so horribly boring. If you enjoyed any of the previous movies - especially the original and the remake of the original - then do yourself a favor and stay well clear of this 2019 abysmal entry into the franchise.