Anthony Renteria

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Climax (2019) - Film Review

You know how some people call a film a fever dream? And then you watch it and your like ehh, that wasn't so feverish.

Well, the previous mantle holder "Mother!" (That I've seen) for an extended "wtf" sequence has been dethroned.

This film goes complete apeshit in the last hour or so, and it progresses and pulses in such an erratic claustrophobic, hypnotic and psychotic fashion. It is pure diabolic and cinematic bliss. Each segment of the final hour were 10min+ one shots that just blurred together in a way I haven't seen done quite as well as this, and so strangely as this...

The performances from the entire cast of professional dancers are phenomenal and impressive in nearly every way, they hit emotional peaks so easily and believable that it becomes uncomfortable quickly.

Final thing I will say, the first hour of this film could have been cut literally in half, specifically a lot of the "sex talk" I think a single exchange would've gotten the message across, also the overhead dance segment could have been trimmed straight in half. If these changes would have been present this film would have easily been a 10 in my book.

So, in ending

9/10 - Amazing

So, for a film whose first hour is absolutely terrible, the last hour is an absolute masterful display of horror, physicality, emotions and drug use, and yes, of cinema