Alex Descas, Asia Argento, Carl Ng
Sexy ex-prostitute Sandra is forced to flee London after a steamy S&M encounter with a debt ridden ex-lover ends in violence. Fleeing to Hong Kong in search of a fresh start, she becomes involved with...( read more
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DVD Release Date: June 3, 2008
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Flixster Reviews (243)
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February 19, 2009Meandering thriller with much style but little substance. Argento may have a smouldering beauty but her acting leaves much to be desired and Madsen is unconvincing.
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August 23, 2008"I'm not free of anything. I destroyed my life."
Next to, say, Michael Haneke or Gaspar Noé, Olivier Assayas is a harmless little fetishist: He takes very attractive women, thrusts them into situations of peril (physical and psychological), and gets off (implicitly) on th...( read more) -
August 11, 2008Confusing but not boring. The film has great tension, a stupid ending and Asia Argento. She's transcendently both tough and vulnerable, not to mention smokin' HOT.
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July 30, 2008I don't get what this film is trying to do. Obviously it's not trying to be a thriller or an action film despite some typical set pieces. The first half is mostly a study of the relationship between Argento and Madson, but the second half totally abandons it for some boring and n...( read more)
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April 15, 2008Honestly, quite borin. Unnecessary slow buildup to what could have been a decent caper. Skanky Argento is probably playin herself. In fact all the characters look too real - meanin, they're incredibly borin and say incredibly borin things. Maggie Cheung's Clean was a much ...( read more)
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October 24, 2009Director Olivier Assayas, who established himself with Irma Vep (1995), a tribute to a cinematic ur-text (Louis Feuillade?s Les Vampyres, 1916), specialises in films about a globalised world with an increasingly fragmented sense of humanity filtered through a hazy, kaleidoscopic ...( read more)
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August 26, 2009At firt i didnt wanna see this, i wasnt interested in this at all and i should have stuck to that because this movie is extremely shit! i gave it 1 and half stars just because there was a shooting and murders that made it a little bit interesting but the rest shit!
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August 26, 2009This is a slow, meaningless, boring film. Only reason why i wanted to watch it, was for Michael Madsen and even this wasn't his best performance! I don't understand the reason behind this movie, but its not worth watching!! Asia Argento always looks like shes on drugs!!
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August 17, 2009I didn't expect this to be a good movie but it was really interesting. Really loved the ending.....!!!!
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June 22, 2009The film is a very meandering thriller, interspersed with touches of rough sex here and there. It never bored me exactly, but never made me all that interested in the plight of Asia Argento's character either, so it's just sort of a wash.
The actual conspiracy or plot nonsense t...( read more)
Critic Reviews
November 30, 2008
Nick Schager, Lessons of Darkness
April 17, 2008
Colin Covert, The Minneapolis Star Tribune
What it all means is up for grabs, but for connoisseurs of sadomasochistic nastiness, it's a must-see. full review
April 11, 2008
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
The main thing interesting about Boarding Gate is the spectacle of Assayas' effort -- the attitude and the international backdrop -- not the story itself. full review
March 21, 2008
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
This hypnotic, angular thriller about sex, murder, betrayal and money takes you on a feverish journey from nowhere to somewhere. full review
March 19, 2008
Armond White, The New York Press
Boarding Gate's decadent fancies are appalling. full review
March 17, 2008
David Edelstein, New York Magazine
[Director] Assayas is out of his element here, and the encounters have no snap: It's like one of those two-character plays in which the frequent pauses are filled with the audience's coughing spasms. full review
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