The Smokers | | Cast : | Dominique Swain, Busy Philipps, Keri Lynn Pratt | | Director : | Kat Slater | | Studio : | Mgm/Ua Studios | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | January 01, 2000 | | DVD Released Date : | November 02, 2004 | | Language : | Unknown (Dubbed), English (Dubbed), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON | Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | April 06, 2005 | | Summary | The director is now making porn | Content
 | This is an absolutely terrible film. So bad is this film, that the director herself has never even watched the final cut. So bad in fact, that she packed it in and gave up on Hollywood. Christina Peters is now directing Hustler's "Young Sluts Inc" under the name "Kat Slater". I just hope for the sake of porn she has learned a thing or two about how to make a good, or at least tolerable "bad" movie. |
| Rating |  | | Date | February 13, 2005 | | Summary | Pointless Dribble | Content
 | There is no true plot to this movie. It is genuinely meaningless. The movie centers around four girls who decide to teach men a lesson by assaulting them at gun point and rape them. Led by the sexual promiscuous member of the group, they set to first get "revenge" on one of the girl's boyfriends who just took her virginity. But here is where the movie comes undone. The guy did nothing wrong. He never raped or took advantage of the girl. She had what effectively amounts to buyer's remorse. Moreover, the promiscuous girl announces that their criminal actions were going to be done for "all women." With equal nebulous mindless indiscrimination, all men somehow become culpable for some baseless reason. The girls bumble their attempts, even somewhat humorously trying to arouse a young gay man. In the interim, the promiscuous leader, while having announced to her friends the worthlessness of the male race, goes out and pursues the worse examples of manhood, getting over her head with one married man, who brutally rapes her in front of his limo driver after throwing her over the hood of the car. The scenes erratically jumped from one to another with no smooth transitions or logical flow. Midway through the movie the original premise that the movie was based, namely punishing guys, disintegrates into a completely mindlessly undirected sequence of events. In one, the shrinking violet who just recently lost her virginity begins to have sex with another guy, but once again she decides she doesn't want sex with him and suddenly pulls out a gun and ends up shooting him to death. Perhaps this chick is just gay and doesn't know it or really is frightened by sex with men. But then again, why is she going with men and pursuing sex with them? The movie ends with the leader of the group burning to death in a comedy of unrealistic errors in trying to set off a fire alarm but inadvertently causes a real fire to rage through a school. That's it. That is the whole move. The whole, worthless, pointless movie. It makes no sense because there was no point to it. None of the female characters are coming across sympathetic. None were victims by anything other than their own stupidities. The leader of the group calls guys "mental midgets" but she ends up proving herself the smallest mental midget of all. The girls get themselves into their predicaments by mindlessly following an idiot and never once thinking or rationally analyzing the reality and truth of their lives in any honestly introspective way. Unlike the girls in the movie Foxfire, who are actually victimized and get revenge on their victimizer, you don't feel any sympathy for these mindless, witless wonders. The movie has no plot, the acting is awful, the editing is even worse, and the dialogue is horrifically unimaginative. The movie as a whole lacks any substance or purpose and never tells any kind of story. This therefore is NOT a movie but cinematographic masturbation. |
| Rating |      | | Date | February 04, 2005 | | Summary | We started a revolution you guys... | Content
 | This movie obviously isn't a big-budgeted hollywood production. It's about three girls at an all girls boarding school who are fed up with the way that guys are treating them and taking advantage of them. They decide to fight back by doing things to them to get even and hopefully teach them a lesson. You see how when these girls feel invisible and hurt and repressed, what they do to feel empowered and stand up for themselves, but lose their friendships in the process, which was more important than guys in the first place. I don't know why everyone thinks this movie is so terrible? Not ALL movies are glossy overproduced and manufactured big names with the intention of just making money. Some people think that it's going to be a "feminist" movie and are upset when they don't see girls running around and beating guys up. Well as you can see, these girls figure out their own boundaries, and what "feminism" means to them. Whether it's by saving yourself, or giving yourself up, they find out from their mistakes. |
| Rating |  | | Date | July 15, 2004 | | Summary | How did this movie ever make it to film??? | Content
 | Bad acting, bad camera work, bad script, bad plot. Bad everything. My sister rented this movie because she wanted to see girls kicking guy's butts. Instead, it was so bad we all had a good laugh over it. The plot isn't in the least bit inspiring or powerful. Supposedly it's about girls taking back power from guys, when in fact they don't seem to have anything to gripe about. Two of them are virgins with no apparent reason to need to get back at guys. The one who isn't a virgin went out and did some older, rich, married jerk in his limo, then wonders why he wouldn't give her his number? Is this a good reason to feel "used" by the male sex? The rest of the movie is supposed to center around this, but this quickly gets pushed aside so that other minor and unimportant underlying plots can be developed. The typical nerd boy=nice boyfriend plot is overplayed. The butt kicking consists of one hilariously unbelievable rape scene before being pushed aside. Most of this movie was just not believable. From the rape of a guy (did they give him viagra or something?) to the twisted Russian Roulette scene. Like these girls would really do that? Come on. It gets worse. Even after feeling "used" by the married rich guy, the girl meets with him again. He rushes things and she (finally) decides she wants to get out of the situation. She screams for help, but the limo guy does nothing. She falls out of the limo, only to be raped on the hood of the limo, in front of the driver, in the middle of the street. Despite the fact that a rape scene should be powerful and have some kind of effect on the story, nothing comes of it. The wussy girl in the group sneaks off to have sex with some guy, then decides she doesn't like it and tells him to stop and hits him with her gun. That only turns him on (because what do you know... these guys like bondage!) and she shoots him in the neck, killing him instantly. She runs and hides the gun in their dorm, only to confess anyway. But no one believes her except one woman, and no one believes this woman either. So instead of the girl being caught, she is put on drugs. What? Then there is the fire scene. For some reason one of the girls decides to set off the smoke alarm. It's not mentioned why. One minute the girls are being interviewed one by one about the murder, the next they are setting off smoke alarms? But then she magically falls or something, sets a shower curtain on fire, and gets her dress stuck in something you never see. Instead of ripping it or taking the dress off to escape from the unnaturally quickly growing fire, her friend comes and saves her (also not shown how) only to be trapped when a flaming piece of the roof falls on her. She can't get out and burns to death. What? Not only that, but the firemen let the escaped girl's nerd boyfriend come in to the burning building with them? The firemen don't even rush to save this girl. Although honestly, I wouldn't save her either. Now we're supposed to be sad the girl died. Instead, you are left wondering what this has to do with anything. Normally, tragic deaths in movies have something to do with the plot or meaning of the story. Her death was played up as if it put a some kind of closure or moral on the movie. Instead you just wonder where the plot went. And in the end, the wussy girl marries unhappily and the other marries the nerd right after graduation. Way to be independent, gals. This movie doesn't even live up to a teen angst story. It completely misses the mark with whatever point it attempted to make. Don't bother. |
| Rating |  | | Date | June 21, 2004 | | Summary | couldn't make it through the whole movie... | Content
 | ick - just bad...too bad for words. stay far away from this, umm, I guess you could call it a movie. anymore effort in this review would be more time in my life I'll never get back. |
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