VividSimon Simply Perfect

Steineded How sad is this?

Anoushka Slater While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

mikeyy-23737 What is wrong with the world that a thing like this could be created. Come on people we are better then this. The fact that somebody wastes time and money on this is just sad and pathetic. Honestly the cast and crew should have quit and had nothing to do with any of this garbage. You accomplished absolutely nothing by putting this out into our society. I hope and pray all things having to do with this are destroyed. Again if you had anything to do with this trash hang your head in shame.

troywhigham The premise isn't anything new: warriors held in captivity and forced to fight for their lives with the victor promised freedom for victory. The Romans did this with their gladiators, and every gladiator movie since then has followed the same basic concept: fight or die.But what makes this movie different isn't that it takes place in an underground prison compound with the fights broadcast on closed-circuit TV for the enjoyment of wealthy elite, or that the women are all beautiful and capable fighters, or that the dungeon masters are cold, heartless, masochists with a twisted dream of empowerment. No, what sets this movie apart is that the characters forced to fight are relatable, meaning that you've known women just like this at some point in your life. You have known women who have: (a) been in an abusive relationship, (b) helped support her mother and father during tough times, (c) was a college athlete and started a small business in the fitness field, (d) was a single-parent mother who joined the military in a non-combat role just to support her daughter, (e) took classes at a gym and got into the lifestyle, (f) took a boring mainstream job to pay the bills and put her dreams on hold, and/or (g) suffered PTSD. You form an emotional bond with each girl thrown into the pit. You feel empathy for their situation. This isn't MMA with referees and time-outs. This is your sister, your cousin, your girlfriend forced into a brutal situation that tests her physically, psychologically, and emotionally. That horror is what sells this movie.Zoe Bell carries this movie in much the same way that Bruce Lee carried "Enter The Dragon". It is her character that becomes the focal point, even though the first female character to whom we're introduced and with whom we bond is simply used to clarify the conflict within the hero's psyche. This change-up will leave you reeling like a punch-drunk boxer, and the hits just keep coming after that. Every girl that fights has her own story, and you can't help but feel sorry for each one as they're forced to fight, even when they're mentally and physically broken. The casting was well done, and the actresses are credible in their roles, though I consider "Phoebe" to be the most poorly developed (and overly acted) of the group. Considering that most of the cast are relatively unknown (other than Bell and Soldana) the acting is impressive. How Bruce Thomas hasn't landed a role as Brian Cranston's brother is beyond me - he looks eerily similar and turns in a very credible performance.The ending is pretty definitive as to making this a stand-alone film, but that's not to rule out the potential of a sequel, and one that really needs to be done. Once you've watched the film and have recovered from the gut-punch, you'll want to watch it again. I'd love to see this story continued, but with a stronger social statement attached to lift it out of the "exploitation" stigma.

Leofwine_draca RAZE is a terrible 'tournament fight' style movie in which an all-female group of fighters are forced to battle to the death in various one-on-one bouts, all for the pleasure of the viewing public. The whole film looks like it was shot on a shoestring budget and 90% of the running time consists of various undistinguished actresses thumping the hell out of each other in various badly-choreographed fight scenes.The erstwhile heroine of the piece is stuntwoman-turned-actress Zoe Bell (DEATH PROOF), who gives the singularly most wooden lead performance I can remember in a while. The entirety of her acting in this film consists of her jutting her jaw out and looking peed off, which I guess she achieves. Still, none of the other female cast members are any good, and you have to pity poor Doug Jones (PAN'S LABYRINTH) in a stock role as the bad guy. Watch out for an unrecognisable Sherilynn Fenn, one-time glamorous starlet of the early 1990s.I'm a huge fan of action movies in general but the fights here are pitifully done and generally uninteresting. There's a strong air of sadism in the air here with an almost torture porn vibe going on in regards to the brutality, but it doesn't make for a disturbing viewing experience - just a boring one. Listening to the dialogue scenes in which the fighters go into their life stories is even more excruciating than the relentless fights...

Kerem Gogus While torturing myself with that awful movie for an entire 1:31:59 I couldn't stop asking what if the girls start making out every time when they put together on that pit for fight? On this nonsense movie somehow an organization captured troublesome ladies and forcing them to fight with each other claiming that their relatives are in danger. But no one actually noticing that the videos of their beloved ones are mostly on loop and they are actually not getting any real news from their "beloved ones"Violence level of the fighting scenes are over-rated because same amount of violence is already on MMA Women out there in real life and its "legal" and everyone watch the same amount of violence on public TV on that so called "sport" So the "illegal activity" that is going on the story of that movie is utterly pointless. Because MMA Women is actually doing the same thing.There's no acting or camera work or anything artistic in this movie. If you approach to the movie on these topics; there are better student movies with no budget.I'd say skip it but who doesn't enjoy a good cat fight? If people don't like awfully violent fighting scenes there wouldn't be a MMA at first place.