Review of The Tribe

Whatever talent the director has, limited though it is to long takes, is completed wasted on this ponderous glorification of violence, abuse, and sexual exploitation. The movie plods through one unimaginative scene of motiveless brutality after another. There is no point to anything that is shown. There is no plot, there is no character development. Worst of all, there is no point to it, unless the director delivering sadism to an audience craving voyeurism for cruelty is the point. Other movies portray violence with honesty (Relentless, The Nightingale, and The Painted Bird spring to mind) but they had substance beyond the portrayal of violence. Kmen is a disgusting disgrace with no redemption for its one-dimensional characters or itself.