M.F.A. (2017)

Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Blistering performances.

The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

Sad that side characters are better at acting than the main character. Not that it is just Francesca Eastwoods' fault. The character who s a mixture of Kira from Death Note, Dexter from Dexter (duh) and Emma Stone, requires one of the hardest acting skills which Eastwood doesn't have. She gets raped and accidently kills someone. So much to act. She has some nice sweater stretchers tho. And Eastwoods' neighboor is either a crackhead in her 20s or a 40 years old collage student. How old is she suppose to be anyway? Amd tge director wasn't even paying attention i believe. Camera switches are pretty awful, scenes done superficially and lacks of emotion. Got to mention the sound director who had done a great job. Sounds were pretty realistic and minimalistic which is awesome.Plot was lame AF. Some twisted minded feminazi who thinks killing is acceptable wrote one of the dumbest story ever. Eastwoods neighboor kills herself so Eastwood can escape prison, but she forgets that someone else knows who is the real killer, so she dies for nothing.Last scene was damn cool.Not just because the movie is ending. The director managed to wake up and film a badass scene at the and. Gotta give him/her that.Overall, the movie was a total time waster. Unless you are a feminist. If so, be ready to flick your beans for 90 minutes straight!

All men in this movie are bad, evil, stupid cowards (including all police), all women in this movie are victims, yet smart, merciless, strong... I have never had to do with rape, date rape or the like, but I do believe this movie to be both an insult to real rape victims and also a dangerously stupid way to depict this rather dreadful kind of scenario. Anyway, my reply in stereotype kind: many women - NOT rape victims - are going to feel mighty good watching this movie. Guess which kind women I believe these are.

I am not aware of campus rapes but i am sure that this situation if it did happen would put the boys that did it in deep trouble. This is a sensitive issue right there and women have more power then men when this happens.Francesca Eastwood is the only reason to see this movie, she is hot and you get to see her fully devoted of clothes great body.Other then that the deaths where less then impressive and the end payoff ends up flat.She should have gotten away with it in a good revenge flick but she did not...... kind of a let down all in all i give it a 3 because its been done a zillion times and a lot better.

MFA was really well-received in its premiere at Austin's SXSW Film Festival. There is a long tradition of vigilante films dating back at least to Clint Eastwood in Dirty Harry. There have even been a few female vigilantes (Jodie Foster in Brave One, for example), but this seems to be the first set against the issue of campus rape culture and a woman seeking vengeance for being horribly violated. The script and the acting is Francesca Eastwood (Yes, Clint's daughter) and Leah McKendrick (who wrote the screenplay) is excellent. The script is subtle and nuanced. The use of original artwork by the Noelle who is an art student is particularly powerful. There are some aspects of this revenge fantasy that are a little unbelievable, but that doesn't really take away from the powerful story which raises an important issue that is gaining more attention (typically in documentaries like Hunting Ground). While this issue has gained a lot more attention in recent years, the conversation really needs to continue. I hope this film gains distribution, because it deserves to be more widely viewed.