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Donkey Punch Review:

A few months ago a friend e-mailed my e-mail stream a link to a movie called Donkey Punch. Knowing what a DP is (I'll leave it to you all to look it up for yourselves if you don't) I couldn't help but investigate and not only found and IMDB listing for it, but also a trailer on Youtube and found out it was an English movie just making a run at the theaters in the UK. I never thought it would make it to US shores aside from a straight to DVD release, so when I checked my local listings I had to go and see this movie.

Three twenty-something girls from Leeds go on a trip to Spain to help one of the girls get over a break up and encounter a group of guys who have control of a yacht for the weekend. They become fast friends and agree to join them on the sea vessel and go on a quick cruise. After some drugs and alcohol, things get a little more raunchy and one of the guys causes the death of his sexual partner and panic ensues.

First I just want to say, the way the act of performing the DP is slightly different and less "dirty" than the way the act is actually performed, yet vastly more dangerous. That aside, the film is a good tension builder. It's well acted and does manage to pull you in and keep you interested after said act is performed, yet characters do act in a sort of illogical manner that happens in a lot of thrillers and it does become rather predictable. Still there are and will be several worse thrillers out there that you can spend your time and money seeing and none of them has a title that has the same effect as Donkey Punch. And in fact the movie being titled that actually helps it out a little because it is so well done. The first act of the film doesn't bore you with waiting for the moment to happen, and when it does you sort of have a giggle and remind yourself "well it is called Donkey Punch." In fact the first act is done so well that it actually makes the entire situation believable up until that point. It manages to not completely go to pieces in the second half solely due to the actors in the film as the actions of certain characters does go off the deep end a little. It's hard to recommend this movie as I admittedly only saw it for the name, but it did turn out to be entertaining. I have a feeling anyone who wants to see it will see it regardless of its reviews anyway, but I truthfully did find some fun with this movie. C+/6.5/60