Review of Bashing

Bashing (2005)
1/10
unrelenting misery
28 September 2022
Society turns against a woman who was kidnapped while doing volunteer work overseas. This is certainly plausible in Japan where cyberbullying and social ostracisation are gold-medal standard. However the execution of the concept is dire. The color pallet is a dull green and the resolution primitive. Shots are hand-held for reasons that can only be budgetary rather than aesthetic. The heroine is hated by everyone and hates everyone. People are fired on a whim. No one shows even a hint of compassion or kindness to anyone else. The heroine mopes about in one-note angst. The action is inauthentic - has anyone ever really, truly, ripped a phone out of a wall and thrown it out a window?

Interesting cast list. Apart from that, there is not one iota of cinematic merit here.
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