Fox Force: Review

Five women have taken it upon themselves to exact revenge on a man for a sexual assault and they’ve gone to extreme lengths so that they can get justice. Stringing him up with a bag over his head, his fate is now at the mercy of these women determined to make him pay.

However, it’s not all that easy as some start to change their minds while others are more adamant. So, played out in real time, the group talk and argue and abuse each other whilst they try to decide what is the right course of action.

Fox Force (Or Tomboys in other territories) is a rape-revenge movie with the stylish aesthetic of a Grindhouse movie. Released in 2009, it may have been made to capitalize on the craze of Tarantino and Rodriguez’s popular collaboration, but the subject matter proves as relevant now as it ever was.

Thankfully never glamorising the women or the allure of torture porn, Fox Force feels like the kind of movie that could have been made much longer ago, but with a modern twist. The moral quandary of whether murder is a fitting resolution to revenge is also something that is now and may always be debated, and Fox Force never really leans into the answer either way.

However, this is indeed a Grindhouse movie and whereas its themes may be more considered, the movie does want to give its audience what they came for. Meaning that there are scenes that push the boundaries of good taste and there’s perhaps a little too much focus on the gore and mutilation.

Out of all the cast, it is perhaps the character of Kat (Candice Day) that is more well thought out though and Day’s performance reflects that of a woman torn between the trauma of what happened to her and how she could ever move on with her life.

It just feels like that at the end of the day Fox Force is designed to shock its audience and the subtlety of its issues are lost as it tries desperately to get the right tone.

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