Review of Grotesque

Grotesque (2009)
1/10
No redeeming qualities whatsoever
8 August 2013
Warning: Spoilers
First, I would like to say that I understand that this is a love story in disguise. It shows what pain one would go through for the other.

Now that that's out of the way, this movie is awful. There's hardly a back story or really anything presented about the characters at all. We know the killer is a doctor (I can't recall which kind) and the couple works together. That's all we know. On top of that, there's not much of a story either. The couple gets tortured by a psychotic killer who gets sexually excited through torturing people. Whatever happened to plot development?

The violence is stupid, pointless, and in the ending scene, completely ridiculous. If all you care about is seeing people go through extreme pain, go and watch this movie, because that's all that's there. Most people I've heard try to justify the violence in this movie say something like "BUT DIS IS LUV STURRY ND IT HAZ DEEPIR MEENING". If you've actually been paying attention to the little information you've been given in the beginning of the movie, you wouldn't think there's a deeper meaning at all. Even if it was truly a deeper meaning, that doesn't make it good. The point of the violence is to show what some people will go through for another out of love. The topic of love isn't original after it's been brought up countless times in all forms of art for thousands of years.

If you care about a movie having substance, or not wasting time out of your life you will never get back, don't watch this movie. You will regret it.
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