A wealthy Belgian guy is shacking up with his hottie mistress at a lavish desert home when a few of his Arab hunting buddies show up. They all party and she gets a little 'loose' with one of them during a dance, giving him the wrong idea in thinking that she's into him. When she turns down his advances the next day, he gets pissed off and rapes her while the boyfriend is away and the other friend turns a blind eye. When the boyfriend returns and finds out what happened, she's dismayed by how lightly he takes it and when he refuses to call her a ride home, she makes a run for it. Without going into too much detail, she's attacked by the slimy trio and left for dead, only to survive and exact bloody REVENGE.
Just for living through what happens to her is inane enough, but how she frees herself from the perilous situation is even more preposterous. And a scene in which she cauterizes her wounds with red hot beer can aluminum that brands the logo on her body (not to mention the wound disappears...), I found absolutely hilarious. Throughout the movie - and especially in the final 10-minutes - characters lose SO much fucking blood from rifle gut-blasts, to impalement's, and react no more severely then if they had a pebble in their shoe. Hell, the Terminator expressed more physical anguish then the bubblehead-turned-badass female lead in this film. All this said, I found it impossible not to just accept all this and go along for the entertaining ride that was "Revenge". Clearly, they knew what they were doing in purposely going so far over-the-top with what characters endure that shitting on the movie based on all this would be pretty redundant. I can't say I loved this flick by any means and in no way would it rank anywhere among the rape/revenge 'greats' like "I Spit on Your Grave" or "Ms .45", however, it's well worth checking out for a fun, visually pleasing, ridiculous watch.
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