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.
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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Average Rating: 2.6/5
User Ratings: 12,099
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
Jan 22, 2008 Wide
Apr 7, 2009
Magnolia Pictures
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.
It's Dead Calm meets Very Bad Things, with English accents.
Unfortunately, Donkey Punch delivers a donkey punch of its own.
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.
Watching, it's easy to feel a little stranded, too.
Fairly well-executed exploitation.
At least there's not a bag-head haunting the ship.
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.
A nasty little thriller that might have worked had it tempered its propensity for outrageous brutality.
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
Very Bad Things meets Knife in the Water in ... [this] thriller about not-so-bright young things trying to cover up a nasty accident.
Packs a magnetic jolt of fearsome intensity.
...has been infused with an egregiously plodding sensibility that effectively renders its few positive attributes moot.
I look forward to Blackburn making a thriller with a script to match his style.
On the plus side, at least it wasn't called Dirty Sanchez.
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.
The ending is never much in doubt. Getting to it, however, involves a slightly better-than-usual assortment of cheap, harrowing thrills.
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."
Violent, sex-filled thriller is rough, grisly stuff.
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, 2010Super 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, 2010Super Reviewer
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