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Donkey Punch (2007)

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Average Rating: 5.5/10
Reviews Counted: 51
Fresh: 25 | Rotten: 26

Donkey Punch begins as a promising thriller, but loses credibility while adhering too closely to genre conventions.

25

Average Rating: 4.2/10
Critic Reviews: 12
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 9

Donkey Punch begins as a promising thriller, but loses credibility while adhering too closely to genre conventions.

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26

liked it
Average Rating: 2.6/5
User Ratings: 12,099

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Movie Info

A luxurious yacht floating in the Mediterranean serves as the unlikely setting for this tightly wound horror-thriller concerning three vacationing ladies whose carefree vacation morphs into a picturesque nightmare over the grueling course of one terrifying night at sea. It began as a fun night out on the town, but after meeting three charming locals at a nearby club, the gorgeous vacationers made the fateful mistake of joining the men for a hedonistic party at sea. Unwisely climbing aboard the

R, 1 hr. 30 min.

Mystery & Suspense

Olly Blackburn, David Bloom

Apr 7, 2009

Magnolia Pictures

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All Critics (52) | Top Critics (12) | Fresh (25) | Rotten (26) | DVD (1)

Donkey Punch is almost humorless, and there's no wink and nudge behind the mayhem to absolve us of taking its ugly, class-obsessed subtext seriously.

February 12, 2009 Full Review Source: Washington Post | Comment
Washington Post
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It's Dead Calm meets Very Bad Things, with English accents.

February 5, 2009 Full Review Source: Philadelphia Inquirer | Comment
Philadelphia Inquirer
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Unfortunately, Donkey Punch delivers a donkey punch of its own.

February 4, 2009 Full Review Source: New York Observer | Comment
New York Observer
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Anyone looking for a stoned and bikinied update of L'Avventura, Purple Noon, Dead Calm, or other boat-bound chillers will have to settle for The Real World: Death Yacht.

January 29, 2009 Full Review Source: Boston Globe | Comment
Boston Globe
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Watching, it's easy to feel a little stranded, too.

January 23, 2009 Full Review Source: Newark Star-Ledger | Comment
Newark Star-Ledger
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Fairly well-executed exploitation.

January 23, 2009 Full Review Source: New York Post | Comment
New York Post
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At least there's not a bag-head haunting the ship.

August 16, 2011 Full Review Source: East Bay Express | Comment
East Bay Express

Blackburn takes one boat, one body, a rising tide of panic and a rising number of corpses and uses them all to craft the best bad news possible.

December 17, 2009 Full Review Source: Cinematical | Comment
Cinematical

A nasty little thriller that might have worked had it tempered its propensity for outrageous brutality.

March 13, 2009 Full Review Source: Critic's Notebook | Comment
Critic's Notebook

A first class thriller from start to finish, Donkey Punch has the lot: raunchy holiday fun, gorgeous locations, a luxury yacht, drug-driven sex orgy and a mishap

March 5, 2009 Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | Comment (1)
Urban Cinefile

Very Bad Things meets Knife in the Water in ... [this] thriller about not-so-bright young things trying to cover up a nasty accident.

March 2, 2009 Full Review Source: Miss FlickChick | Comment
Miss FlickChick

Packs a magnetic jolt of fearsome intensity.

February 12, 2009 Full Review Source: Seattle Times | Comment
Seattle Times

...has been infused with an egregiously plodding sensibility that effectively renders its few positive attributes moot.

February 10, 2009 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews | Comment
Reel Film Reviews

I look forward to Blackburn making a thriller with a script to match his style.

February 7, 2009 Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com | Comment
TheMovieReport.com

On the plus side, at least it wasn't called Dirty Sanchez.

February 3, 2009 Full Review | Comment
Philadelphia Weekly

Had director Blackburn included at least one interesting character that wasn't bird-brained and had he moved the mayhem much earlier within the plot, the film would have been at least refreshing to watch rather than mostly dull and derivative.

January 30, 2009 Full Review Source: NYC Movie Guru | Comment
NYC Movie Guru

The ending is never much in doubt. Getting to it, however, involves a slightly better-than-usual assortment of cheap, harrowing thrills.

January 26, 2009 Full Review Source: MTV | Comment

An exciting, high-tensioned, fast-paced tale of seven people faced with life-altering decisions when removed from civilization in the mold of "Lord of the Flies."

January 23, 2009 Full Review Source: Tolucan Times | Comment

Violent, sex-filled thriller is rough, grisly stuff.

January 23, 2009 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
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Audience Reviews for Donkey Punch

I actually thought that this was pretty good. At first I thought that it was just another sex movie, but that all changed about 35 min into it. I kept wondering what the heck Donkey Punch was. Well now I know. Nothing good can ever come from that move, obviously. I thought that this was a rather entertaining movie.

October 14, 2010
itsjustme2004

Super Reviewer

The first half is actually really good and pretty original, but the second half completely ruins the movie and shows how little thought was put into constructing a suspense thriller. The acting was okay at times, but when things got dramatic and serious the performances fell apart. I would almost recommend watching it

April 26, 2010
ythelastman89

Super Reviewer

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