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(2005) watched- 4/12/2010

Rating - **

Summary - 

n Sidney, the Interpol agent Phillip Jackson investigates crimes in Internet with his partner Nigel. After a mission in Hamburg, Phillip has troubles in the relationship with his liberal girlfriend Abbey that tags him "chauvinist pig". While researching the web, Phillip finds a bizarre site where a man shows obese women being fed by him. He finds the origin of the site in Ohio, and without authorization, he travels to USA pursuing the pervert Michael Metszencalmpf, a.k.a. Michael Carter. When Phil meets Michael, he surprisingly knows who Phil is; further, Michael tells that what he is doing is not wrong since he is releasing fat women from the standards of thinness imposed by the society. However, Phil discovers the true motives of Michael, beginning a personal war against the deranged criminal.  

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Review - 

Okay so I had fairly high hopes for this film, as it had that potential to be something dark and disturbing. Instead they took disturbing to the edge of plain and simple smut. 

First off they overly pushed the sexuality and nudity at the beginning, mostly pertaining to Phil's relationship with his girlfriend. The start seemed more like they were running for shock factor and weirdness. 

The antagonist though was, on some levels, extremely dark and disturbing. Calm and collected, manipulative, fluctuating between loving to cold to plain out disgusting. Honestly this film isnt for the faint of heart. The guy they cast as Michael did a wonderful job of being straight up creepy as well as seemingly unstable, in my opinion. the best moment to back this up being when Michael and Phil meet outside of Michaels suburban home in Ohio. We see cold calculation and a sick sort of blind faith in what he (Michael) believes.

The best part of the movie would have had to be the ending. When Phil finally confronts Michael at his "Lair", first off there was some fighting that soothed any need for violence. But truly it was the very end that was best. If you like Irony, you might enjoy that scene. Then again I enjoyed that scene and that was about it. The rest of the movie seemed like a bit of a waste of film. A good idea that was just trying to hard, as well as being pushed to hard on the masses. 

If you see this on the shelf and feel yourself slightly intrigued, I suggest you put it down and step away. Dont waste your time. 

But thats just my opinion. Hopefully someone can get these great dark ideas right without overly sexing them up some day

~Note~ 

Yes I realize I may sound a bit backwards saying that it was over sexed up when it is supposed to be a "Fetish" site, but thats not what I'm talking about. Some of the stuff in the film, there was simply no reason to show. Thats all, maybe you agree or disagree, I dont really care. If thats your cup of tea, go ahead and watch it, but I wont be watching it again anytime soon.