I wouldn't consider myself someone who dislike excessive gore/violence/torture. I love Hostile, Cannibal Holocaust and I think Green Inferno was pretty good.
But to me a horror movie that has excessive gore has to be doing it for a purpose: to scare, to make social commentary, or just to amuse (in the case of green inferno)
Martyr seems to be torture for repulsions sake which I am against. Like August Mordum Requiem, I don't care for movie that's showing me realistic torture just to disturb me.
It's not really scary and more just disgusting.
It's just EXCESSIVE with the torture and at the end all they throw on it is an ambiguous ending that doesn't really make the slog through the torture worth it.
Although I liked the ending, and do think about it from time to time, it was one of the ONLY parts I liked about the movie.
If I were to re-watch it I would only watch the ending. And that to me is a bad sign.
I don't want to be the person who gives a movie a bad review because it's "too graphic" but I will be the guy who gives it a bad review because the movie is just glorified torture porn, with only a "okay" ending that offers very little in terms of commentary/thought provoking, but just enough to give it a 7.
The ending is the only thing that saves this movie for me, and even than it's just one of those half assed *the writer couldn't think of a good enough answer to the questions he asked so he just left them un-answered" cop-out ending.
Watch this movie if you want to see realistic torture. If you expect more out of a film than just watch a youtube video explaining the plot. (isn't really much to explain, because the writer clearly didn't have an answer so he left it a mystery)
But to me a horror movie that has excessive gore has to be doing it for a purpose: to scare, to make social commentary, or just to amuse (in the case of green inferno)
Martyr seems to be torture for repulsions sake which I am against. Like August Mordum Requiem, I don't care for movie that's showing me realistic torture just to disturb me.
It's not really scary and more just disgusting.
It's just EXCESSIVE with the torture and at the end all they throw on it is an ambiguous ending that doesn't really make the slog through the torture worth it.
Although I liked the ending, and do think about it from time to time, it was one of the ONLY parts I liked about the movie.
If I were to re-watch it I would only watch the ending. And that to me is a bad sign.
I don't want to be the person who gives a movie a bad review because it's "too graphic" but I will be the guy who gives it a bad review because the movie is just glorified torture porn, with only a "okay" ending that offers very little in terms of commentary/thought provoking, but just enough to give it a 7.
The ending is the only thing that saves this movie for me, and even than it's just one of those half assed *the writer couldn't think of a good enough answer to the questions he asked so he just left them un-answered" cop-out ending.
Watch this movie if you want to see realistic torture. If you expect more out of a film than just watch a youtube video explaining the plot. (isn't really much to explain, because the writer clearly didn't have an answer so he left it a mystery)