December 28, 2008
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Director: Alexandre Aja
Year: 2003
Country:France
Before I begin this review, I just want to say one thing:
Fuck Alexandre Aja.
You burst onto the scene High Tension and became a fucking star (however undeserved it might have been), yet you wasted a wealth of potential on shitty remakes. I have yet to see a bigger fall from grace since [...]
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by bmchargue
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July 25, 2008
I have not seen the first three films by Alexandre Aja, though I suspect most have not. His magnum opus might be considered Haute Tension had the script not degraded into a cheap M. Night Shayamalan rip-off, rendering the first half of the movie completely implausible and utterly stupid. Though this made the film absolutely [...]
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by bmchargue
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