The Victim
Anchor Bay Entertainment | Release Date: August 24, 2012 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
11
METASCORE
Overwhelming dislike based on 5 Critic Reviews
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Mixed:
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Negative:
5
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Village VoiceNick PinkertonAug 21, 2012
It is dreary to envisage the viewer who could become emotionally involved in The Victim, but it does have the kind of slack watchability - lugubrious driving scenes and girl-talk flashbacks pad the movie toward feature length - that make for good late-night TV. Read full review
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New York PostKyle SmithAug 23, 2012
Biehn has appeared in dozens of B-movies and evidently had no greater ambition than to come up with a grindhouse movie full of sex, gore and cheap thrills, but there is far too little of any of these to maintain interest in a straight-on story that reserves its only surprise for the final 30 seconds. Read full review
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The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisAug 23, 2012
Told with multiple flashbacks and minimal taste, this exuberantly scuzzy thriller - shot in less than two weeks with a budget as micro as the women's skirts - pits sleazy cops against fun-loving disrobers in the middle of scraggly foliage. Read full review
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New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierAug 23, 2012
This is the kind of junky, hard-to-watch thriller that apologists claim is part of a long line of tough, grindhouse-style thrillers, but which is actually just amateurish gristle. Read full review
0
Slant MagazineChuck BowenAug 20, 2012
Not much happens in The Victim, but the events that do manage to transpire consistently support a reading of the film as an older man's fantasy of virility. Read full review
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