Synopsis
Dare to step off.
After an American tourist steps on a landmine, he is forced to watch his girlfriend get assaulted.
Directed by Levan Bakhia
After an American tourist steps on a landmine, he is forced to watch his girlfriend get assaulted.
Nagmi, Mine, Dead Mountain, Mayına Bas, Мина начинает тикать, 死亡山地, ნაღმი, 랜드마인 고즈 클릭, デッド・オア・リベンジ, Campo Minado
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The first fifteen minutes of this are okay - three Americans are hiking in the mountains somewhere in Georgia (the country, not the state) and one of them steps on a landmine. He can't move or he'll blow up. This is a reasonable premise for a suspense movie and is set up quite nicely. Then suddenly, everything changes. One character disappears, never to be heard from or thought about again, only to be replaced by a super-rapey Georgian Ron Jeremy lookalike. The dude on the landmine (which quickly becomes a secondary, if not tertiary, plot device) is forced to stand and watch about an hour's worth of sustained sexual assault rendered unto his female friend.
Just when this grim, puerile,…
Landmind Goes Click is a filthy, vile, mean spirited film that somehow manages to have the worst of intentions and purpose for existing, but at the same time is also too amateurish to take seriously, too ridiculous to offer any kind of immersion and too focused on its own disgusting fantasy elements to claim itself as a cautionary message or satire. To put it mildly: it's a piece of shit. But we're off to the races to find out exactly WHY it's such a fucking disaster. So let's go to the tale of the tape!
The basic outline here is this: people are horrendous garbage who do terrible, selfish things to make themselves feel like god. And after such things…
Landmine Goes Click is a Hostel style American tourists getting into trouble in Europe movie. Three friends are hiking in Georgia. We spend a few minutes setting up the characters by way of some hating on Russia and a nod to Jackie Brown, then the main plot device kicks in when one of them stands on a landmine. To really say much more than that would be spoiling things, but suffice to say the film comes in thick and fast with the plot twists and twisted humour, and this really isnt the kind of movie it looks like its going to be. The film effectively has two big set piece scenes. Both of them work by piling on the suspense…
Probably the most grueling film I've watched in the last several months, the second half of the film being a nonstop hell-scape of intentionally drawn out brutality of the highest order. Vomitous but impossible to ignore. I don't want to say too much because I don't want to soften the film's blow, though don't go into this -- I mean, maybe don't go into this at all -- expecting a suspense film re: "does it explode or does it not?" You find out pretty quickly that this is a different sort of movie and, if the first two acts don't turn off most viewers, the third act most likely will. The second-to-final shot of the film is one of the most grim juxtapositions of moving image and sound that my eyes and ears have been exposed to in some time.
Never seen such a waste of an interesting premise. Dogshit writing featuring dogshit sexist violence. I found this because I went down a rabbit hole of seeing what some former Disney stars were up to, this was clearly a sign from god to stop wasting my time and go outside
If I stepped on a live landmine and someone said that all I had to do to get saved was watch this movie, I'd backflip off of it. Jesus Christ.
I often take risks watching movies, that are not well liked. But it pays off, as it did now.
Theres three acts. Now lets just say the first act is about three people, and one of them steps on a landmine. Shit goes down. Like really hard. Theres torture porn in this, humiliation porn, revenge flick, theres even jailbait. One solid film, pretty morbid.
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
The way they blended the model sets with the live action shots was honestly impressive — it's super hard to tell where one ends and the other begins. Also, pretty sure Devi (devil, anyone?) was lowkey trying to get Chris killed on that landmine. And that girl who was literally right next to the guy a second ago suddenly can't walk over to lock the landmine? Come on.
If Ilya's whole thing was to assault Alicia, why is he spending so much time negotiating? Yeah, I don't think that was the original plan — Chris and Alicia just kept pushing his buttons with all those slurs and set him off. Oh, and heads up — the plot summary on Letterboxd…
I can't say I enjoyed this film in the slightest, but damn, it's got some really effective tension. The last hour is pretty insane. Still, the acting is occasionally laughable, the plot is a bit ludacris and disorganized, and it's not particularly well-made from a technical standpoint (for example: 90% of the shots give this awkward "handheld" feel, and the other 10% are drone shots).
But hey, it surprised me, and it had some truly horrifying moments. Don't watch this unless you want to feel like shit, because it's incredibly dark. A very mediocre movie that I'm impressed with, but did not enjoy one bit.
A good film in the same vein as I spit on your grave and other rape films like that. But what makes it good are the performances and the second half of the film. The performances are all really on point, especially the “bad guy”. Seeing his demeanor change between the first and second half is so realistic. Unfortunately, and though I like the second half of the film, the very end is a bit too much. Not in its violence or anything. But it didn’t really make sense in the context of the film. Is the point that violence in all forms is wrong? That retribution is wrong? How easy it is for “good” to become “evil”? I don’t really…
March around the world - Georgia
Watched this purely on the basis of the poster and if I had read the plot details then I would probably have given it a swerve.
Thought this was a very tasteless film, it initially has an intruiging set up that quickly gets out of hand. It has a prolonged rape scene that I honestly think was there as entertainment purely on the basis of how the camera lingers over it. Then in the last third it goes for the revenge motif but doesn't have a single point to make. What makes it worse is that they have tried to put some style on this. However, at times it looks quite good but the editing is pretty woeful.
Found it to be a really hateful film with no redeeming features. The worst that exploitation films have to offer.