Julia (2015)

Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Good concept, poorly executed.

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Depressed girl avenges the rape committed on her by annoying frat-boy types.Second time I've watched this, and I really didn't get anything more than the first time.Music is great, photography impressive, the actresses look so good in close up. The lead actress in particular has a fascinating face, and I do like a fringe with over-sized spectacles (prescription or not).But I kept checking every ten minutes how long there was to go. I can't put my finger on it, but the story doesn't compel my interest. A revenger is usually a black & white story that uses explicit violence to keep audience interest - the only explicit violence here is a clock-sice scene, which left me wondering, "The balls! Why not chop off the balls?" The weird cult thingy doesn't cohere, although the final scene does make sense. In other words, depressed girl ends up just as depressed as she was at the start. C'est la vie. But that's a documentary, isn't it?Seriously, this needed black humour - maybe the writer/director/producer should have sought creative input. Very impressive in his style, but it deserved something more.

Ghost Whisperer meets the Devil.Revenge movies are always unpleasant to watch. But Julia has an underbelly that is dark.On the surface it's just another revenge story, but beneath that is the occult, Julia's helpers are more like demons than people.They take her in her weakness and turn her into one of them.She goes from destroyed, to destroyer.She becomes like the devil, stealing men away from life.If you look at these mentors as the symbols of demons, and not human, as they appear to be, this movie really takes shape.

This has been done before, and better, as with I Spit on Your Grave. Julia(Ashley Williams) seen earlier in the even more bloody Human Centipede, gives a decent performance in the otherwise tedious, dark, and poorly written Juila. It begins with our heroine wearing ugly, oversized glasses walking up the stairs to an apartment for a date with a fellow intern from a nearby New York City hospital. He gives her a drink, which of course is spiked with something to knock out the young lady. Through a series of flashbacks, we are shown her assault by five very angry young men. She overhears a conversation at a seedy bar by women recovering from rape. Of course she pursues them and eventually gets her revenge on her culprits. The movie drags on for ninety five minutes and is a waste of time.

Usually I don't like to leave reviews with spoilers but I will in this case because I will be saving you a lot by strongly advising not to watch this trash. The conclusion of this movie is the creation of a terrorist female who likes to kill innocent men and mutilate them in answer to an incident where she was raped. The morality of the entire premise of this film is deeply troubling and disgusting. Moreover, it is extremely depressing through the triumphant ending for the monster female main character.There is good story no good dialog no good suspense or even drama. It is just pure absurdity mixed with gory disgusting scenes. The reason why I included the feminist side in this review is because of this new trend by feminist film makers that produce garbage where female characters who have been raped or assaulted by men, in a transformation where they become the monster and end up getting away with it. This just makes me sick!