If you've seen any of these films, you know what you're getting.
However, the film's obsession with sexual assault, and the way it is treated so flippantly, is incredibly hard to stomach.
I don't mind violence. But the way this film in particular treats it is pretty gross.
None of the female characters come off as any good in this film, either. They either serve as meek damsels, bodies to be sexually assualted to make the bad guys seem bad, or annoyingly smug amoral scumbags.
Which makes the matter worse.
If you can stomach all of that, then you have the usual slicing and dicing and fights and stuff, which are typically well done.
It's a shame, because if this series dropped its awful attitudes towards women, it would be more fun.
As it is, I found myself pressing fast forward any time it devolved into distasteful sexual violence - especially the scene near the beginning with the wandering mercenaries and the two girls on the road, which was truly gross because I just know people got off on it.
However, the film's obsession with sexual assault, and the way it is treated so flippantly, is incredibly hard to stomach.
I don't mind violence. But the way this film in particular treats it is pretty gross.
None of the female characters come off as any good in this film, either. They either serve as meek damsels, bodies to be sexually assualted to make the bad guys seem bad, or annoyingly smug amoral scumbags.
Which makes the matter worse.
If you can stomach all of that, then you have the usual slicing and dicing and fights and stuff, which are typically well done.
It's a shame, because if this series dropped its awful attitudes towards women, it would be more fun.
As it is, I found myself pressing fast forward any time it devolved into distasteful sexual violence - especially the scene near the beginning with the wandering mercenaries and the two girls on the road, which was truly gross because I just know people got off on it.