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List Price: $14.94 | | Label: Sony Pictures
Salesrank: 30341
Released: September 18, 2007 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Gillian Anderson stars in this dark thriller about a couple that embarks on a violent spree after surviving a gang attack. Driving back from a posh party at a country estate, Alice (Anderson) and Adam (Danny Dyer) find themselves brutally assaulted by a group of hunters. Physically and emotionally devastated by the attack, the tables suddenly turn when they discover the identity of their attackers. This time, it’s their turn to exact the ultimate revenge.
Description of Closure:
The X-Files' Gillian Anderson gives an impressive performance as a woman obsessed by revenge in this sleek and chilly English thriller by documentary filmmaker Dan Reed. Anderson is top-billed as a Brit businesswoman who invites the rough-hewn tech (Danny Dyer) who's installing her security system to a business party in the country. Slow-boiling sexual tension between the two to an erotic encounter in the woods – which is soon undercut by a savage attack by a group of local hunters, who rape Anderson and beat Dyer senseless. As they recover, viewers soon learn that the pair's trauma runs deeper than just the physical level – Dyer is emotionally shattered, and Anderson is gripped by a need to repay her attackers with violence more terrible than what they visited upon her. Though the plot occasionally veers into implausible territory, the couple's search for the guilty party – and the gruesome fate they have in store for them – is unnerving, and made all the more so by Anderson intense turn, which presents a torrent of conflicting emotions raging just below her cool, porcelain surface. - Paul Gaita
Closure Reviews:
Disturbing in an English sort of way 
2009-11-21 - In the motif of I Spit On Your Grave (Millennium Edition), a woman (Gillian Anderson) who is attacked by several men turns the tables on her attackers and begins stalking them with the efficacy of bringing them pain. The "twist" is that her boyfriend was with her at the time of the attack, and he gets beaten to a pulp. So, the two of them join forces to go after the thugs who did them harm.
Anderson has grown her hair out since her days of playing agent Scully on The X-Files: The Complete Collector's Edition and she looks fabulous! She also does a passable job of carrying an English accent. At the very least, it's about as good an English accent as you're going to get from someone who was born in Grand Rapids!
To be sure, this is quite a disturbing movie. It's not a flick to watch when you're in the mood for something fun or upbeat. It's about a dark a film as you're going to find out there.
Of course, the primary reason a lot of people will want to see this film is to see Gillian Anderson topless. I admit I fall into this camp, and that alone warrants the cost of the DVD. That said, it's also a pretty good movie in its own right - IF you're into sadistic dramas.
A very cold dish 
2009-10-04 - This movie is an unconvincing descent into gratuitous violence redeemed only by an excellent performance from Gillian Anderson. Although the desire for revenge is an understandable response to the brutality suffered by the two main characters their reaction is not a credible one. Few people act on an urge for vengeance but even if we accept that they do on this occasion it's hard to believe they would be this extreme. What is this movie trying to tell us about a lust for violence? Well, nothing really, except that some people have such a lust. Now, I like a good gory horror flick, but in such films the violence is not posited as real. Here, however, we're supposed to accept these sadistic acts of retaliation as plausible, and we're left feeling a little grubby for having witnessed them.
Oh, what could have been......
2009-09-09 - I am not really sure where to begin with this movie, so I will open the floor with why I watched this film in the first place. I watched "Closure" for two reasons. The first is because I am a fan of Gillian Anderson. Like many people I was introduced by Gillian Anderson when she played Dana Scully on the classic television show "The X-Files". I have managed to see in her several other things throughout the years and I believe she is a fine actress. The second reason I watched this movie is that it was recommended by a friend of mine, who said this movie was wrong on many different levels.
Going into this movie I wasn't expecting a "mainstream" or "Hollywood" type film. In addition, I had already expected a bit of an exploitation film, due to the "rape and revenge" nature of the content. I also knew that this film was released in the UK under the title "Straightheads" not "Closure". After watching this movie, I don't think the former or latter title really fits the substances of the film. The one thing I know for certain, I was very disappointed when this motion picture was over.
The plot is a bit implausible, yet simplistic; Alice (Gillian Anderson) is a classy business woman who is having a home security system installed. The person installing the security system is Adam (Danny Dyer). Due to some subtle sexual attraction, Alice invites Adam to be her date to her boss' birthday party. At this point I raise my eyebrow at bit, but I guess this could happen.
At the party Adam is out of place, more than likely due to the fact he is much younger than Alice. This doesn't stop Alice and Adam to leave the party to have sex in the woods. At this point I raise my other eyebrow, but there is such thing as bohemian lust. On the way home from the party, Alice and Adam are driving and then ran off the road by another car. Three men get out of the car and approach Alice and Adam. At this point Adam is severely accosted and Alice brutally ganged raped.
We now fast forward a month later and it appears that Adam is now living with Alice. They have both been traumatized from the attack; Adam is now reduced to wearing an eye patch. Adam is also a bit "all over the place" he is wayfaring through myriad emotions and is now impotent. Alice has become very aloof and somewhat cold. Her focus becomes vengeance. This leads Alice and Adam to go after their attackers. There is a bit more to it, but not much and if a person has the desire to watch this film, I don't want to ruin it for them.
The major problem I had with this movie was the character of Adam. I am not sure what Danny Dyer was trying to do with this individual. The wishy-washy nature of his character only vexed me; it didn't make me feel sympathetic for him. Maybe this was the filmmakers' goal. I also didn't see how a character that was this unstable would be still hanging around a woman he hardly knew. I understand that there is an element of misattribution of emotion (the rape/attack) that they both went through. In contrast, I don't see a professional business woman taking in an unstable person, who she shares no history prior to this tragic attack. Yet maybe this duplicity was the filmmakers' goal.
The first half of the movie was pretty good. It appeared that there would be some element of revenge or dare I say "closure". Then everything falls apart at the half way point of the movie. The film is only about 80 minutes, so after the first 40 minutes I felt everything began to crumble. It appears that half way through the movie, the filmmakers decided to make this story "deeper" and the "villains" more complex. This ruse was a shoddy attempt to make this movie something that it wasn't. When the credits rolled I was like "wow, I can't believe I spent money on this movie".
In contrast, Gillian Anderson's performance was amazing. Her British accent was awesome and I did care what happen to her character. She was also extremely sexy and stylish in this movie. I was also not expecting to she her unclad in this movie. So I guess that is a bonus. However, I don't like to gauge a movie on its amount of T&A, if that were the cause all porno movies would be Oscar winners. Her performance and some of the scenery in this movie is the ONLY reason I am giving this movie two stars.
This movie had so much potential and it could have really been a great film. This "rape and revenge" genre isn't anything new, remember "I Spit on Your Grave"? However, this movie fails terribly. Not because it isn't "I Spit on Your Grave", but because the movie starts off strong and then gets flat. There was mood that this movie had, very eerie and haunting. Consequently, the mood is totally divorced by misdirection, loop holes in plot and too many incredulous factors. Not to mention Danny Dyer's performance is embarrassing. I'm done, no more blaming statements.
In conclusion, there is an interesting scene in "Closure" involving sodomy with a rifle. I can relate to this scene quite a bit. For this scene is when I realized I sodomized out of the time and money I had put into this movie. Now I need to have a long conversation with this friend of mine......
WOW. Not what you would expect 
2009-03-08 - This a short and fascinating film. Gillian Anderson is an incredible actress. This film will make you think and cringe. It definately has to be watched at least twice.
Awesome movie!
2008-12-30 - I was hesitant because of the ratings it had already received but I'm glad I finally went ahead and got it anyway. I love this movie!
