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In "Descent," acclaimed actress Rosario Dawson plays the most controversial character of her career: a promising college student who becomes bent on seeking revenge after a shocking act of sexual viol...( read more 
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MCT:July 10, 2008WTF?! I was extremely confused most of the time, I got very sleepy and I love Rosario's acting, but this movie didnt float my boat
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MCT:July 6, 2008
Plot Spoilers Necessarily Throughout This Review
I saw this movie by accident, thinking I had downloaded "The Descent", the horror movie about creatures attacking a group of cave climbers/campers who are all college age girls. So even through, the first rape scene, I thought, this is just another crappy B horror movie trying to start off by being "edgy", so I kept watching through Dawson's character waking up in the dilapidated drug house, thinking to myself "yeah this is probably just a drama and if it is not, it's a tacky convention to parallel *this* parabolic descent story with some creature-killin-in-caves and her redeeming herself by killing creatures, so she better torture that lil football poofter".
Problem is, I don't think this is that great of a performance from Dawson, just because you do a rape movie doesn't make your career.
And the movie fails on its point, because call me fucked up, but I enjoyed the revenge rape scene. Yup I don't mind some stuck up jock getting his ass split and kind of liking it, so for me that totally washes out the scene of Dawson's character getting raped. Compare this film to "O Fantasma", a real art-house movie that also includes plotted homosexual rape, and you will see that "Descent" cannot compare when it comes to depicting a character sliding into an amoral and degraded existence, which is ultimately the point of this movie, not all the graphic rape bookending the fall, but those are really the only compelling moments, which is never good for a director to say, "well at least it's got good rape scenes". So sadly that means the whole middle of the movie could have been gutted, so next time this director wants to do an effective feature, they may want to consider a rewrite to make sure there is sufficient material to cover it, instead of duping me into watching a piece that is seventy minutes too long.
"So Fucked Up" highlight: using a bedpost to get the anal rape started, that I was aroused by the muscley latin guy revenge raping the frat twat -
MCT:May 25, 2008see the poster only tell dat this movie is not "stright' people..Plz DONT watch da movie.. It will only make u bored , sickned , angry, disgusted...and so on....
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MCT:May 20, 2008I found this to be more of a low budget flick I'm not even sure why I checked it out but I started watching it and found it to be a very graphic flick and the ending was just horrid but I guess people that do that kinds of crap to some one always get paid back for there wrong doing like I always what ever goes around comes around payback is def a bitch!!
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MCT:April 25, 2008Very hard to see Rosario as such a broken character..but the end of the movie explains it all..Revenge doesn't always make things better inside..
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MCT:April 19, 2008Now, here's an interesting movie with a very sensitive issue at hand. An occurance that happens too often in this world. Rosario Dawson is definitely remarkable, it's very interesting to see her take on more diverse roles. Worth seeing!
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MCT:March 30, 2008I probably wouldn't recommend this to most just because this is extremely difficult to watch. Rosario Dawson does a great job portraying a young woman whose life is completely transformed after a graphic, all-too-realistic scene of rape. I say transformed because her character's response to what happened to her is an extreme conflict between cold and icy distance and wreckless promiscuity. This is the first film I've seen since "Extremities" that deals with the rage and vengeance of rape survivors with an unflinching eye. The one weakness I found here was that we don't get more than the surface of her character's emotions in this, which are all obvious and understandable. Unlike "Extremities", which through the use of the three female characters, we get a challenging, thought-provoking dialogue, that's missing here, so I feel like there was a missed opportunity to have a frank discussion of the feelings, the rage, the depression, that her character undergoes and how she ultimately expresses it.
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MCT:March 29, 2008descent is not even decent. It took me nearly a week to watch its groveling decadence of dark dens and sordid sinnery. Maybe it was just too art-house for this flat forehead, but it's not a worthy story. It lacks sympathetic characters, and its over-endowed with cliche'd film noire pans and trucks and maudlin music ad nauseum... When it abruptly ended, I was left wanting less.
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MCT:March 15, 2008
Although Descent can't decide whether it wants to be an artsy indie-drama or a warped and disturbing female-empowerment trip, what unfolds onscreen is undoubtedly one of the most intense, unique, and intriguing films in recent years. An amazingly taut and visceral performance from Rosarion Dawson and top-notch cinematography top off this wonderfully-chilling and brutally refreshing revenge picture.
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MCT:February 11, 2008
wtf, move over house of dead, this is the worst movie i've ever seen. HORRIBLE are you kidding me??? simply horrible
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MCT:February 8, 2008
Rosario does a real good job with her character's transformation from victim to predator. There were some parts in the movie that really went too long with no real reason to be in the movie other than filler leading to the ending.
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MCT:February 6, 2008A feminist tale of privately administered Hammurabian justice. As a cautionary note: only the beginning and the end are worth watching while the rest is unnecessary, ultimately failing to advance the plot. The story would have been better conveyed as a short film.
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MCT:January 15, 2008
What a vile and unpleasant film. The final act of the film focuses to much on revenge and hate which ultimately makes it unwatchable and a truly horrid movie experience.
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MCT:August 11, 2007Like the Messengers, I watched this movie with Hallie and Nacole. They were immensely freaked out by what happened and I wont give anything away except that it had a surprise ending - or, rather that it was surprising to me.
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MCT:August 10, 2007
oh man this looks like a scary movie and i like scary movies so i guess that that means that it's a my kind of movie so yeah u could say that i want to see it
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MCT:August 6, 2007
WOW. This may be one of the worst movies I've ever seen. EVER!!! I saw it for free, while I was volunteering at the Tribeca Film Festival, and I still felt robbed. I love Rosario Dawson. She is way hot and seems like a cool chick. She even gave a good performance in this crap flick. But man this movie was AWFUL!!!!
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