Donkey Punch (2008)

The first must-see film of the year.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

Terrible, boring, contrived stupid movie about a bunch of one dimensional 20 nothings who go out on a boat ride while on vacation. One girl gets killed accidentally and it becomes women vs men in a battle for survival. Lame and lamer.

OK, so I've just watched this and can't really understand why the ratings have been so poor. It's not brilliant but it's alright, there are definitely far, far, FAR worse films out there. Basically, three girls go to Majorca for the weekend, meet four blokes and go to their yacht for fun and frolics. Their afternoon of debauchery turns to tragedy when during quite a graphic sex scene one girl, Lisa, is donkey punched resulting in a broken neck and, well, death. Personally I didn't think it was as amazing as some reviews have suggested but I'm not a 15 year old boy who's never seen a pair of boobs or a willy before. The rest of the film centres around the remaining characters to fight for their survival involving a lot of blood and violence, all scenes I thought were pretty decent. Don't be put off by the poor reviews on here, it is worthy of a watch. Watch it if only to watch the annoying bloke bleed slowly to death.

As soon as the film started I thought there might be something wrong with it . Despite being released in 2008 ( Without any fanfare I should add ) Mallorca seems a strange setting . If it'd been a film released in 1998 where the Belearic beat tourist resorts were still very popular with Europe's youth then I might have understood the reason for the location more . This led me to suspect that the screenplay might have been written several years earlier and if you look up director and screenwriter Olly Blackburn's resume he has indeed been working in film and television ten years prior to the film's release . Does this indicate the quality - or lack of it - of the screenplay ? Of course I'm only speculating and after seeing DONKEY PUNCH I was reminded strongly of THE HOLE another film I disliked The story starts with with three young British females visiting Spain . From a moral POV I was going to give them the benefit of the doubt , drinking alcohol and seeking male company does not make a young woman a bad person in anyway . Unfortunately when they meet three English lads to reveal themselves to slappers of the lowest order , smoking crack cocaine , " lezzing it up " and indulging in casual sex this can only mean one thing - there's a moral consequence to all this . Actually cinema has replaced the Bible has humanity's moral compass . I would love to see a film one day where a rabid nympho who takes class A drugs , doesn't become addicted , never catches a disease and dies of old age . One thing I have learned in life ( And you probably noticed this to an extent yourself ) is that bad things usually only happen to nice people . Perhaps if the two surviving girls from the orgy had been " nicer " from society's moral standpoint it would have been much easier to empathize with their dilemma ? The screenplay does meander . It takes about 40 minutes for the plot's major inciting incident to happen and when it does the story seems unsure on what it's trying to be . As soon as the body is dumped overboard I was expecting a very taut and claustrophobic thriller where the two surviving girls hide on a small yacht where the trio of boys have to eliminate all witnesses to the crime . I actually shocked that the financiers to DONKEY PUNCH didn't demand that this is how the screenplay was developed and the direction the story should take . As it stands too much of the running time after this point the characters just sit around asking " what we gonna do now ? " Get a better agent would be a start As a footnote the financiers of DONKEY PUNCH - The UK Film Council - have been dissolved by the government this week . This is no big deal . Successful British movies such as 28 DAYS LATER have the film council logo in their credits but this is very misleading . The council just put up enough money in to a movie simply so they'll get a credit but the financing and distribution deal has already been done in most cases usually with an American film company or distributor allowing the film to go a wide release . In reality a large proportion of films where the Film Council are the main funders fail to get released in cinemas . Often down to the reason that they're underdeveloped and unentertaining to a mainstream audience

The title says it all: "donkey punch" is punching a girl on the back of the neck while having "doggy-style" sex to increasing sexual pleasure. (I'm a bit confused with this one. because i always thought it was a punch to the rib/kidney area.) You'll think to yourself "What a stupid movie!" yeah i thought so too. But then again, if you're into a lot of nudity, sexual acts and violence, this thriller is for you! it's so-so in regards to acting. The insanity begins when "sexual acts" becomes the main topic of conversation and curiosity peeks it's ugly head. The situation the group faces is no joke, accidents do happen. Especially when under the influence of heap-loads of drugs and alcohol. "Sex Trip gone Bad"