Wonderfully offbeat film!

This is How Movies Should Be Made

One of the best films i have seen

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

A secret organisation abducts fit young women, puts them in push-up bras and tight white vests, and makes them duke it out to the death in a pit. Sounds like guaranteed exploitation heaven, doesn't it? Well it isn't… against all the odds, director Josh C. Waller has managed to make this delightfully trashy concept into a really dull film that amounts to little more than a series of repetitive, unimaginative, unconvincing fist-fights between characters that it's hard to give two hoots about.Lead Zoë Bell, a stunt-woman turned actress, does admittedly look like she can handle herself in a fight, with an athletic physique and a face that has clearly taken a bit of a pounding in the past (from a distance, she looks like Sean Penn in Fast Times at Ridgemont High), but the rest of the girls are mere eye-candy, completely unconvincing as bare-knuckle brawlers. Most look like they would give up all hope if they broke so much as a fingernail.Orchestrating the violence for the benefit of an exclusive audience of rich sadists are married couple Joseph (Doug Jones) and Elizabeth (the once sultry Sherilyn Fenn, who needs to update her profile pic to avoid future disappointment). These despicable reprobates predictably get their comeuppance in the final act, when our heroine, Sabrina (Bell), escapes her confines after playing possum during her final fight. Here, we get my personal hilarious highlight (or should that be lowlight?) of the whole film, as Fenn grabs a weapon to try and kill Sabrina—never has an actress looked less comfortable in a fight scene.

Probably the worst film I have ever seen. I've never felt compelled to write a review of any film before but this was so bad I just had to.Exploitative misogynistic junk. Paper thin plot, horrible dialogue and a complete waste of time. It's only redeeming feature was that the actors did a reasonable job with the very little they had to work with. I love violent films but this was ridiculous. Seeing anyone but especially women beat each other to death with their bear hands or repeatedly getting kicked in the face is not my idea of entertainment.I only managed to get to the end in the vain hope of seeing the heroine get payback on those people who were causing their suffering. This did happen for the main culprits but still didn't feel like enough. I felt disappointed and depressed by the whole experience. If you like these kinds of film there are much better examples out there like the SAW series.Can't quite believe some people gave this a 10 out of 10 and would recommend to other people. I suggest these people widen their viewing tastes or seek professional help.

RAZE is a terrible 'tournament fight' style movie in which an all-female group of fighters are forced to battle to the death in various one-on-one bouts, all for the pleasure of the viewing public. The whole film looks like it was shot on a shoestring budget and 90% of the running time consists of various undistinguished actresses thumping the hell out of each other in various badly-choreographed fight scenes.The erstwhile heroine of the piece is stuntwoman-turned-actress Zoe Bell (DEATH PROOF), who gives the singularly most wooden lead performance I can remember in a while. The entirety of her acting in this film consists of her jutting her jaw out and looking peed off, which I guess she achieves. Still, none of the other female cast members are any good, and you have to pity poor Doug Jones (PAN'S LABYRINTH) in a stock role as the bad guy. Watch out for an unrecognisable Sherilynn Fenn, one-time glamorous starlet of the early 1990s.I'm a huge fan of action movies in general but the fights here are pitifully done and generally uninteresting. There's a strong air of sadism in the air here with an almost torture porn vibe going on in regards to the brutality, but it doesn't make for a disturbing viewing experience - just a boring one. Listening to the dialogue scenes in which the fighters go into their life stories is even more excruciating than the relentless fights...

I bought this movie for a $1.50 because I was bored and figured it was a movie about hot chicks who fight each other but some how there would be a happy ending. First I have to tell you there will be spoilers is this review. I was dead wrong. The overall plot was very interesting. 50 women fight to the death for the wealthy's entertainment. If they lose or refuse to fight, their loved ones are killed. First of all I heard a comment about how it is unrealistic that all the participants were attractive and there were no huge masculine women. In the movie's defense it is about trying to gain viewership and the viewers are more than likely going to want to see attractive women beat the crap out of each other. All the participants seemed to be picked partially for their fighting abilities. The acting was impressive by all cast members, especially the main character and the antagonist who continuously got under her skin. The movie got into the head's of the women. They did a good job of showing how these women desperately attempted to stick to their humanity but when it came to the ring, our natural instinct to survive kicked in. The movie did a good job of not truly villianizing any of the fighters other than the antagonist who for all we know could of snapped because of the environment she was in. The relationships were strong considering the circumstances of the movie but not to over the top. The fight scenes really shocked me. These fight scenes were better than most men fight scenes in movie and were very realistic and graphic. At some points I couldn't watch the screen. I don't like seeing women fight so I attempted to look past it but I thought the fight scenes were amazing. By far the best aspect of the movie. There was no one woman completely destroying another, the fights were for the most part competitive like it would be in real life. The movie felt real and I was really close to giving this movie an 8 but had to resist. The negatives are the lack of background of what was going on, the plot was a little weak, and I hated the ending. I don't need a happy ending, but they set it up where it seemed like it would be.