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A Major Disappointment

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

Haven't watched a good CATIII film in a while, and I guess I've had no luck today either. Just finished PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL RAPIST and I gotta say it was lame. This one feels incredibly cheap and doesn't bring anything at all new to the table. My copy has no subs/dubs, so I may have missed something in translation, but I doubt it.The plot of this one is very much like the better CATIII rape-themed entry titled effectively enough - THE RAPIST. Some horny psycho is stalking an apartment complex and raping various women. The cops catch on and set up a sting to nab him. Before the catch him, the cops make the obligatory bumbling mistakes like picking up and beating the wrong suspect. A bunch of boring stuff happens, then they catch the real rapist...THE END...Nothing notable in this one, in fact I had to watch it at 2X just to get through it. I can only recommend this one to die-hard CATIII completists only - all others will be bored to death or might find the rape material offensive. A couple of those scenes were decent, but not enough to carry the whole film, and the uber-cheap SOV-style didn't help anything either...4/10