8/10
Revenge Revenge Revenge
12 November 2015
Warning: Spoilers
Did I mention the theme I get from this film is Revenge?

So as others have written the movie opens with 3 friends backpacking around the Republic of Georgia (Ex USSR Country on the European Asian border). Chris, Dan and Alicia As the opening dialogues commence it becomes apparent that two of the couple are engaged to be married (Dan and Alicia) and one assumes the third (Chris) is the Best Man. As the dialogue continues we are told the Best Man Chris and the Wife to be Alicia slept together and that the Chris has real feelings for the Alicia.

During a routine photo shoot of local scenery the Chris stands on a landmine, and that this is a deliberate act by Dan as revenge for sleeping with the Alicia. The revenge is amplified with fake telephone calls for help after the wife to be is told emergency services don't rescue whores.

After the Dan leaves the scene a passerby a local Georgian man Ilya walking his dog and hunting becomes aware of their plight, during the dialogue he learns the circumstances because he has hunted their all his life and knows there are no landmine's that it was a deliberate act and its because in his words she is a whore.

As the afternoon progresses Ilya forces Alicia to play out his sexual fantasies having her act like dog playing fetch with her underwear and making her bring them back in her mouth in order to gain favours for his 2 way radio to get help. Ultimately it ends a brutal rape of Alicia and then a fight for the gun.

At the end the passerby's dog jumps on the stranded Chris still trapped on the landmine and we learn it was a fake all along. But the gun discharges and shoots Alicia.

We then switch to a coastal house which belongs to the Ilya and his family, the Chris who was trapped on the landmine claims to be a tourist and is looking for a map when Ilya comes back he realises what's going on and demands Chris to leave. Unknowing of what's gone on before Ilya's wife and daughter insists that Chris should stay for the meal.

After the meal there is a discussion between Ilya and Chris. They agree to meet an hour later to discuss everything. But an unspecified time later we see Chris returning carrying the dying body of the dog.

Then he shoots Ilya in both knee caps before re-enacting all the sexual fantasies played out whilst he was trapped on the landmine. Finally we finish with Russian roulette 1 bullet in a gun he says Ilya's daughter should strip and every time Chris fires the gun she must take an item of clothing off - (she already took off her jumper and panties), so she only has about 2 items of clothing and odds of 5-1 she won't get shot.

Chris fires 1 shot with the gun - the 1 chamber with the bullet kills the daughter. We close with Chris shocked and withdrawn in a corner.
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