Revenge Ride

If this movie came out in the 80s it might have worked. It was one of those movies you would except to watch on USA Network Up All Night. The only thing good about this movie was the acting. The cast actually gave an honest effort with the script that was provided which wasn't much. It was basically a train wreck with more holes than you can imagine.

Blood Ride lasts 69 minutes, excluding the closing credits, and this is one of the longest hours I've ever had. The whole plot is ridiculous, acting is far beyong horrible (the next Razzie Award for worst supporting actress must be presented to Pollyanna McIntosh, once a promising Scottish actress from The Woman and Let Us Prey, who now got stuck in a girl-power pit hole that led her to direct an embarrassing Darlin,) and every single aspect, starting with pedestrian cinematography and finishing with cringy dialogues, falls apart on the screen just to praise the pointless gender war directed by Melanie Aitkenhead.

A freshman girl gets drugged and raped by a trio of one-dimensional hunky football players. Should she call the authorities? Should she visit a doctor that will easily find violence marks and elements in her blood? Hell no! This is the world where no man will ever defend her! She has to speak to her wretched older cousin that will cast a fire on the rapists along with her biker friends and will leave them with severe wounds. Should they call the authorities? Should they visit a doctor that will easily find nasty large burn marks on their skin? Hell no! They have to take revenge for taking revenge on them. Someone gets killed. Authorities? Doctors? Family, at least? You know the answer.

This is what the film is about. This is effortless, lazy, predictable, unintriguing and simply painful to watch. This shouldn't be created in the first place. Yet, we have it. Avoid at all costs.

Of course a revenge flick I wanted to like, but I couldn't. Pollyanna McIntosh was good, some what, she would be perfect as a biker gang lead at 5'11" and intimidating and she showed character, but she doesn't have a lot here. Serinda Swan was good and truly shines. BUT it made no sense honestly, a biker gang of women against 3 football frat boys, I believe the director tried to make it a commentary on college rape, how so many go unknown and unreported, but does not explain why other than 'nobody will do anything', the gang hates men, but really they don't, but it is not really shown except the end somewhat, the movie really could have used an extra 15-20 minutes, the ending was abrupt, silly and no resolution to everything that just happened. It was a pretty bad movie, even for me and that really is saying something, it had potential but missed.

I ignored the reviews and watched anyway. Being a revenge-movie buff, the beginning and middle was predictable and entertaining enough for me to think it was headed to a higher rating. But the writer's have an obvious moral inconsistent with with the cathartic feeling I look forward to in revenge-genre movies. Nothing special about character development, cinematography photography, music or editing. Nothing horrifically bad, looks professional enough for a good b film. Nothing special about the action scenes either. In my view it does a disservice for women's rights.

A rather silly revenge fantasy where a bunch of "tough chicks" in leather outfits take on abusive "mean old mens".

Might have worked if it had been re-written as a comedy.

As it stands its truly awful, with moments of chuckle worthy accidental, self satire, being the only dim light, in the general gloom this thing represents.

0/10.