Warning, most of this review will be filled with spoilers. Skip ahead to the last 2 or 3 paragraphs if you want a simple summation.
Well, when your lead actor is supposed to be the worlds biggest porn star and he looks like a Yugoslavian Roddy Piper with cancer, you're in trouble. But I'm willing to cut them some slack and see how it plays out.
So this dude, this retired stud, grand champion of fucking, now has a wife and a little boy and he's just chilling at home when an old friend contacts him about doing a movie for a big pay day.
The man making the movie meets our hero, Milos, who has starred in such masterpieces as Top Crotch. The man is loaded and vague about what he wants but Milos signs the contract and agrees to be in the film, even though he knows nothing about it.
Meanwhile, Milos' son is starting to get boners and daddy tells him to use his hand to follow the funny feeling.
Also meanwhile, Milos' brother, a cop, or as the subtitles put it, his "copper bro", is jealous of Milos' beautiful wife and child. After he sees his sister in law eating a peach he goes into the bathroom and jerks off. He later watches a tape of Milos' sons birthday while a hooker sucks him off. The tape cuts into one of Milos' old pornos and his brother and the hooker lay there and marvel at his craftsmanship.
This movie wants us to take a lot for granted instead of putting much effort into giving us a reason to think Milos is any kind of superior fuck.
On Milos' first day of shooting he is let out of the car on an abandoned street where 2 men with handheld cameras film him. He has an ear piece that tells him what to do. He is to go into a school for orphaned girls. When he gets inside he sees a nurse and a young girl. The young girl is whisked away by her screaming mother while the nurse gives him a blow job, while on the wall a video plays of said young girl eating a Popsicle. Milos cums hard while watching the video.
Day two of filming sees Milos walk into a dark room where one of the cameramen/soldiers, is slapping the mother from the previous and telling her she is a whore. She crawls to Milos and starts sucking his dick. Next thing ya know, the little girl is sitting in a chair in the middle of the room. Milos objects, but one of the cameramen/soldiers puts him in a choke while the woman starts biting his dick. The dude tells him to punch her in the face, which he does. She jacks him off onto her face, we see her face get splattered with a copious amount of Serbian seed. The little girls is clapping and smiling the whole time.
Next, the mysterious producer, known as Vukmir Vukmir, explains that the little girl is his and the woman is his wife and it's all cool, he would never do anything to hurt them. Milos is still uneasy.
Milos' brother informs him that Vukmir is a former child psychologist who moved to China and fell off the map. He has no reservations.
After having a dream about the movie that involves his son cheering him on, Milos decides to quit.
When he meets Vukmir to quit, he is treated to some sort of babble about victims and being Serbias backbone and that children need to prove how to exist on their own. He then shows him a movie about a true victim. Which brings us to THE SCENE.
A hot blonde chick is giving birth on a table, a bald man walks in and takes off his jacket and delivers the baby. We see the delivery in full detail. He then holds the baby and rapes it, while the mother watches and smiles. This may be the same mother from the first two scenes, I can't really tell. Anyway, it's sick yeah, but it's so silly that it really doesn't have much of an effect. I mean, I'm sitting here thinking about how hot the chick looked with her legs spread. Maybe I'm just desensitized. Anyway, Milos is grossed out and storms out of the room while Vukmir screams about newborn porn being the next big thing. I can't tell what this movie is trying to say.
As he's driving home, Milos stops at a red light and is approached by a hooker. He grabs her tits while she rubs his cock and he starts having flashbacks to the stuff he's seen, done, and thought. He awakes alone in his bed 3 days later. The bed is covered in blood.
He sees the car that would drive him to the set everyday parked in front of his house so he gets in and heads to Vukmirs. On the way he has flashbacks that help piece together the missing 3 days. Apparently he let her drive his car while she gave him a handy and he angrily mauled her tits. They are nice tits.
Upon arriving at Vukmirs now empty estate, he has more flashbacks. I guess the hooker was the doctor from day one of shooting, I couldn't tell. In the flashback, Milos is led into a room with a childrens bed, he is handcuffed. Vukmir explains that he was given some mega Aphrodisasic in his whiskey. Viagra for cattle was how he put it.
The mother from earlier in the film is brought in and handcuffed and spread out on the bed. Milos eyes her like a fucking wild bear in a boner induced stupor. His ear piece is put in, his pants are pulled off and his handcuffs removed. He pounces on the woman and fucks the bejeezus out of her, while in his ear piece Vukmir tells him of all the horrible things this woman has done, and let been done to her daughter. As the verbal attack gets worse and Milos is encouraged to beat the woman while he fucks her, he obliges. Suddenly a machete is placed in his hand. He cuts the bitches head clean off while he fucks her. The camera soldiers have to pull him from her corpse as he continues to fuck her. I gotta tell ya man, this was an intense and good scene. I was part turned on, part intrigued and well.....it wasn't a bad fucking horror scene at all.
Back from the flashback, Milos vomits. He continues through the house and finds a bunch of tapes featuring weird sex acts, including the ones he shot. He gathers them up and it's back in the car as he goes to the woods to watch them. The videos help him piece together more of the days he's missing. Seems one of the camera soldiers ass raped him while has passed out.
Apparently the girl who set Milos up with Vukmir, is pissed that Vukmir resorted to drugging Milos, she says she's taking Milos home. All this is being filmed by an unseen camera operator. The next tape he watches shows a chick, might be the aforementioned chick, might not be, chained with her wrists over head, naked, teeth knocked out, being throat fucked till she asphyxiates and dies.
Next we have what I think is a flashback, he might be watching a tape, dunno. Anyway, the little girls grandmother is thanking him for killing her mother because she was a whore. The little girls father was a war hero but is now dead and in his place Milos has come. The grandmother says the father was supposed to take his daughters virginity but now that gift belongs to Milos. The grandmother asks him to fuck the little girl. Milos is regaining his wits at this point and despite being urged on by Vukmir, he springs up and grabs a knife and takes his own cock hostage, threatening to slice it off. Vukmir tells his men to stand down as Milos jumps out of a window. Vukmir orders his men to chase him as the tape ends.
Milos continues to have flashbacks, remembering where he went and that he called his brother to come pick him up. In present time he remembers the house where the last video took place at, and drives by. He sees the little girl outside working, he drives on. Still in his flashback he is sitting alone in an ally when he sees a girl who is identified as underage but really looks perfectly old enough. He begins to jerk off while looking at her and two guys start beating him up for being a perv. He is saved by Vukmirs henchmen who drive up and kill the dudes beating him up.
In real time, Milos returns to the place he remembers Vukmir took him in his flashback. He was put in a room and shot up again by the nurse. He stabs her and tries to escape but is caught by one of the guards and led naked into a room. The movie at this point is nicely mixing flashbacks with real time, so as he walks real time into a room strewn with dead guards, he's also flashing back to being led into that room.
Ok, now this is sort of silly. I guess Milos was hopped up on cattle viagra again because in the middle of the room is a pretty bed, with pretty bedding set up very romantically. In the bed are two people, an obvious child, and a woman. There heads are covered with sheets. Milos is let free and he goes right to fucking them while Vukmir watches and his henchmen film.
Milos fucks the woman first and cums, then he goes to the little one, who he of course struggles to penetrate, lol. The bodies move slightly but it's clear they've been drugged. As Milos fucks the little one, a masked man joins him and begins fucking the woman side by side. This is not a half bad fucking movie.
Oh geez man. There's a shot of Milos from behind fucking the little one and blood is running down it's leg and fucking pooling up underneath him. That might of been the grossest part of the movie, lol.
The ending I will not spoil except to say that it goes deeper than a pure shock movie should, and has more than one twist.
This is a good movie. I think I'm keener than to fall for simple shock value, and truthfully it's not like I was aghast at much of what I saw. This is a fucking smart psychological thrill that works because of the subject matter yes, it's very foreign to mainstream and even underground films, it's a taboo fucking subject. But the direction, the editing, the way it's shot, are all excellent and do a great service to the story. As awkward as the lead looked at the start of the film, once you get past the idea that he's a porn star, he does a great job, a fantastic job really.
I also applaud the film makers for this. If you're going to go with an idea, go with it. Don't pussyfoot around the subject, go head first into it, and they certainly did. Because they took that tact, the film comes off much the better as a whole. Sure there's a ton of gross fucking shit, but it's built around a story that makes it seem natural in the context.
Fairly or unfairly I came into this film with a certain expectation that it would be funny crap designed to gross me out. It isn't that at all. And once the movie kicks into high gear I found myself throwing away all my preconceived notions and just going with it and enjoying it for the movie it was, a tense, twisted, thriller.
This will not be every ones cup of tea, but it isn't a bad movie by any stretch, in fact it might be one of the better thrillers I've seen in recent years.
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