After a recent 3rd viewing of "Bad Lieutenant" and a "30-years-delayed" rewatch of "King of New York", I decided to take a swing at an early Abel Ferrara movie. He's an interesting (if not mainstream) filmmaker, and those 2 movies I referenced have some great scenes in them.
So I found Ms .45 through a library loaner, and settled in for a quick 80-minute blast back 40 years to the grimy streets of NYC. The story of a mute garment worker about age 20 who is unbelievably raped twice IN THE SAME DAY was of course hard to fathom. She takes the ultimate revenge on the 2nd perp., and then spends the next hour basically blowing away several dudes, most of them don't even remotely have it coming. The final party scene was more disturbing than shocking, and that damn song which was played continuously by the band (who weren't really playing their instruments) was in fact more grating than the carnage dished out by our heroine, Thana.
I'd say take a pass on Ms .45 unless you feel like taking a trip back to the gritty, NYC Charles Bronson/Death Wish era exploring similar results dished out by the opposite sex.
So I found Ms .45 through a library loaner, and settled in for a quick 80-minute blast back 40 years to the grimy streets of NYC. The story of a mute garment worker about age 20 who is unbelievably raped twice IN THE SAME DAY was of course hard to fathom. She takes the ultimate revenge on the 2nd perp., and then spends the next hour basically blowing away several dudes, most of them don't even remotely have it coming. The final party scene was more disturbing than shocking, and that damn song which was played continuously by the band (who weren't really playing their instruments) was in fact more grating than the carnage dished out by our heroine, Thana.
I'd say take a pass on Ms .45 unless you feel like taking a trip back to the gritty, NYC Charles Bronson/Death Wish era exploring similar results dished out by the opposite sex.