When I sat down to watch the 2017 Japanese movie "Revenge Girl" (aka "Ribenji girl"), I must admit that I thought I would be in for more of an entertaining movie that what this movie turned out to be.
First of all, the storyline in the movie was just utter rubbish. It was so far out there that I just couldn't believe in it for even a moment, not even if I tried. I mean, a super shallow and vague woman with the sensitivity of a rock and the compassion towards other people equal to a bottle of poison, running for a prime minister position just to get even with a guy who dumped her. Seriously? Who comes up with this kind of nonsense? I suppose writer Erika Yoshida is the person in this case.
And director Kôichirô Miki wasn't really succeeding in bringing the horrible storyline to life on the screen. And the fact that the characters in the movie were rigid, wooden and completely unlikely was just working well against the movie actually achieving some kind of appeal to the audience.
Sure, the acting performances in the movie were adequate enough, but since the actors and actresses had terrible character to work with, it was just a losing uphill battle.
I managed to sit through about an hour of this approximately two hour long movie. And let me just tell you straight out that I wasn't entertained the least bit. I just gave up at that point, having given the movie several chances to win me over, as I had been tempted to turn it off a couple of times up to that point.
My rating of "Revenge Girl" lands on a mere two out of ten stars, and that is based solely on the production value of the movie. This was a massive swing and a miss of a movie, and it is definitely not a movie that I would recommend you wasting your time, money or effort upon watching.
