Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

GamerTab That was an excellent one.

Moustroll Good movie but grossly overrated

ShangLuda Admirable film.

jtindahouse "More cinema needs to be like this." Now I can understand how at first that might be misconstrued as a strange thing to say about a film like this, however allow me to explain. Sure, this film is absolutely brutal and incredibly hard to watch at times, but because of that it is also a thing of beauty. This film is showing us how fragile life really is. In the blink of an eye your world can be turned upside down. Now a lot of films set out to tell a similar message to that, but fail. And why do they fail? Because they are afraid to be bold, memorable and show everything that needs to be shown. This film never backs down in any way and I love it for that.I've always made it clear that I'm a huge fan of French cinema. The French have so much patience in their story-telling style. I love American films in their own way too, but I wish so badly that they weren't afraid to take the time to fully express them self like the French ones do so well. Some of the dialogue in this movie is exquisite. It's designed to break you, if the imagery hasn't already done so. In fact every single detail in this film is designed to destroy the audience - in a good way. In a way that will make this film stick with you until your dying day. I can't say enough good things about this film. Please see it if you haven't already. You'll be so pleased you did (even if you might not realise it at first).

cinemajesty Film Review: "Irreversible" (2002) - Taking on a bizarre approach of mixing conceptions of "Eyes Wide Shut" (1999) and "Memento" (2000) to make this picture work for itself in casting real-life married couple Monica Bellucci & Vincent Cassel to portray two Parisian middle class people, Alex & Marcus, going out for party at their friend's. Director Gaspar Noé, frequent guest in Cannes Film Festival's competition since his first feature "I Stand Alone" (1998), polarizes the 55th edition of Cannes with his also originally written film "Irreversible".The editorial intervenes scene by scene in reverse story-telling, exposing one night in Paris for the couple Alex & Marcus, who got separated over a minor dispute to fatal consequences for both characters, which all-time controversial representation of urban underpath rape of the character of Alex, who has not been prepared for a predator of the Parisian underworld with a free path of finishing his business of leaving behind the empty shell of Alex.Director Gaspar Noé gives his main characters no chance of conciliation, seeking no balance nor preaches any mercy that film becomes downhill and out experience, which nevertheless shares some over-stylish camera motions by Cinematographer Benoît Debie and honest acting by the at times over-enthusiastic couple Bellucci & Cassel, who hardly stand a chance to come full circle with their characters of an otherwise weak-on-suspense script that lives from the sensation-mongering violent explosions at the beginning plus the previously mentioned storyline's climatic scene, which at today's standards needed metal objects pushed into human flesh, blood on snow white skin and a limping rapist to come close to even with the audience.What is left of a so-called scandal film of the year 2002 is another acting couple after Richard Burton & Elizabeth Taylor in "Who's Afraid of Virgina Wolf" (1966), Tom Cruise & Nicole Kidman in "Eyes Wide Shut" (1999) and then the not-as-close to a classic considered "Irreversibel", where only a "Memento" (2000) copycat gimmick of telling the story backwards saves the picture from a total fall-out due to cliché-striving screenplay of expected relationship quarrels following into one false move of carelessness, which should have been just taking the cab for woman in an evening dress to get home at night.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

Asif Khan (asifahsankhan) First, above all, and crucially, the story is told backward. Two other films have famously used that chronology: Harold Pinter's "Betrayal," the story of a love affair that ends (begins) in treachery, and Christopher Nolan's "Memento (2000 movie)", which begins with the solution to a murder and tracks backward to its origin. Now, consider this — Irreversible (2002) falls somewhere in between the two— The fact is, the reverse chronology makes "Irreversible" a film that structurally argues against rape and violence, while ordinary chronology would lead us down a seductive narrative path toward a shocking, exploitative payoff. By placing the ugliness at the beginning, Gaspar Noe forces us to think seriously about the sexual violence involved. The movie does not end with rape as its climax and send us out of the theatre as if something had been communicated. It starts with it, and asks us to sit there for another hour and process our thoughts. It is therefore moral – at a structural level.Unique & Weirdly Stylish, it begins with—well, in "reverse"—Ending credits. Reversed. No first names. Only surnames. Various letters mirror-inverted. Slowly rolling down. Slowly sloping. Slowly moving across the screen. An image of a man sitting in a bed, tumbling.Then, a fanfare. Large drums. Names appear. Titles. Words. All glimmering. Red. White. Yellow.This is how it begins. Gaspar Noé's uncompromising "Irréversible", one of the most scandalous, most discussed European films of the last 20 years. Good? Bad? Masterpiece? Rubbish? Who cares? One thing is for sure: you can't UN-see "Irréversible". It's impossible… and irreversible."Irreversible (2002)"— has the ability to make you appreciate and cherish your life, in part because it shows you how easily your happiness can be taken away. It is a film that will allow you to love those around you even more than you already do. Any film that can do all that is a masterpiece in my book. The eye catcher? Of course it's, Monica Bellucci—highly regarded as being one of the most beautiful women in the world—and nobody in their stable/healthy mind would ever want to see her getting brutally beat up and raped!"Rape" — happens. It happens to someone, somewhere in the world, every minute of every day. To avert your eyes is to deny that it exists in your world. To turn away is to shirk responsibility. Weirdest moment: The extended 10 minute long take rape scene of Alex (Monica Bellucci), what else? — But how can I just ignore the scene where a man is savagely bludgeoned to death with a fire extinguisher?There will be those that are repulsed by this film, a film that can make Requiem for a Dream (2000 movie) seem like a little girl's fairy-tale. If you are one of those who refuse to watch 'Irreversible' or one who watches and is offended… then you are living in a fake fairy-tale world of your own. This great French film is as brutally truthful and poignant as any in recent memory. It is one of the saddest films I have ever seen. And yet, because of it's reverse chronology, the final scenes of blissful romanticism are some of the most beautiful and heartbreaking moments ever committed to the silver screen. This is a courageous and magnificent artistic achievement!

Cassio Stein Take a regular mediocre story line, add gratuitously explicit violence and tell it backwards for no reason. Memmento is great, because the backwards cut puts you in the protagonist's shoes. But here it's totally pointless.