Return to Sender is a thriller starring Rosamund Pike fresh off her role in Gone Girl which earned her an Oscar nomination. Now although she didn't put in a bad performance in this film, she wont be getting any nominations for this. The plot of this movie was just a complete mess, it kind of had a purpose for the first 15 minutes and looked like it could be a promising film but for the entire rest of the film i had no idea what was happening or why it was happening. Everything about the film just felt very weird and you couldn't like Rosamund Pike's character because of the ridiculously dumb decisions she makes for reasons that you don't understand. Just thinking back on the film there was zero character development for anyone at all for the majority of the film, it is just a series of events that seem to happen then the film moves on to another irrelevant scene and it keeps on doing this until you are bored out of your mind.

The film also decides to take a very odd turn in the last act just out of nowhere. All of a sudden the film decides to throw a curveball with absolutely no setup and no foreshadowing that it just seems very out of character. The terrible writing of the plot and characters really let the film down, you cannot get behind any of the characters and everything just seems ridiculous. In the end The directing wasn't bad and was shot pretty well and Rosamund Pike did her best to use her acting talents to try and save the film but it just wasn't enough to save this messy bore-fest. - 3.9

Miranda Wells, a beautiful young Nurse from a small town is invited on a blind date with a tall, dark and handsome chap 'Kevin.' Miranda has definite issues with pens and a few other quirks. When a guy turns up to meet her, she assumes he's Kevin, but events go tragically wrong, later the real Kevin turns up.

There are some definite pacing issues, it is so slow in parts, dare I say it becomes a little boring. Some scenes are so slow and overdone this movie could be edited and shown in less then an hour. The movie itself is quite hard to follow, there are times when I didn't know what was going on. It's a little telegraphed at times, you kinda know what she's all about.

Definitely issues with her dad's dog, but why did she do what she did, I appreciate it was a pretty dress, she never forgave it for that. I think that showed us her capacity for slow and definite revenge.

I love Rosamund Pike, she showed in Gone Girl just how good she is, but here she's just a bit flat and makes Miranda uninteresting, thank goodness for Nick Nolte, he added a bit of spirit and warmth to the film that was otherwise lacking.

When she performs a tracheotomy in the restaurant she got a round of applause? Would that truly happen?

I can't make out if I thought the ending was good or terrible, it was certainly a switch in tempo.

How many hairstyles did she have in this film? Every scene she looked like she'd been re-styled.

Considering the matter this film deals with I would have thought it would have left me sad or angry, but it left me a bit cold.

Some good elements, just a bit of a let down. 5/10

Miranda (Rosamund Pike) is a nurse who's got it all it seems -- her own nice house, a loving supportive Dad (Nick Nolte), a stable career about to go the next level. One day, a lecherous stranger William (Shiloh Fernandez) gains access into her house and rapes her. As her neat little world comes crumbling down around her, Miranda embarks on a novel form of "therapy", in the hope of recovering from the brutal trauma she suffered.

A rapist is not only a sexual assaulter, but also the ultimate bully and power-tripper. A rape victim is violated not only sexually and physically, but also psychologically, mentally and even spiritually. What may be a few minutes of torture will haunt a victim for a lifetime.

Powerfully rich in dramatic pain and torment, rape and its aftermath had been the topic of thousands of films and TV shows. Akira Kurosawa's "Rashomon" (1950) and Ingmar Bergman's "The Virgin Spring" (1960) are both Oscar-winning classics of World Cinema. "Johnny Belinda" (1948) and"The Accused" (1988) have won Best Actress Oscars for Jane Wyman and Jodie Foster respectively. But no, before you expect too much, this film definitely does not have Oscars in its future.

Lead star Rosamund Pike shot "Return to Sender" BEFORE her Oscar- nominated turn in "Gone Girl". There is a lot of her "Gone Girl" performance here as well -- the subtle mysterious boiling under her cool-as-ice exterior. The strange script makes her do a lot of illogically unexpected, supposedly therapeutic activities, and Pike does them with her game face straight on. Seeing her make these puzzling decisions, we are as frustrated as her father Mitchell was in the film.

Shiloh Fernandez was clearly up to no good the moment we see him on screen. He has got a raw roguish look about him that makes him work as this vile character. Nick Nolte is now all grandfatherly and Santa Claus-like with his white beard and body heft, playing MIranda's father Mitchell. This is so unlike how I last remember him during his prime in the 1990s in film like "Cape Fear" or "The Prince of Tides."

Watching "Return to Sender" felt like watching three different short films which were just tenuously connected to each other. The final act was so predictable yet still so maddening because it never really showed us clearly what happened. We will be expected to interpret the scene in our own way. I am sure those who have invested time to follow the movie to this point may not exactly relish this disappointing ending. 4/10.

How they managed to get well known actors in this ill-fated plot of a movie is beyond me. Maybe they pulled a classic bait and switch and presented one script to get people on board and then filmed an alternate script during production, either way this is what you would call a disappointment to be polite.

Now let's start with the PLOT, the whole premise for the movie was a great idea, loved it from the synopsis, the execution of the plot was discerning. After the inciting incident the whole plot takes a disastrous tumble. You will fail to realize the objective of the film by the end. Not only that the credits couldn't roll fast enough for me and I was so happy that I didn't pay $14 to see this in the cinema.

CHARACTERS: Funny enough, you may just end up rooting for the villain, that's how recklessly this film's plot us put together. I found myself with no compassion for our main character. I did however, feel bad for Nick Nolte, because I couldn't for the life of me figure out how his agent tricked him into this.

I gave this two stars. One for putting a budget together to get the film done and the other for getting decent stars to somehow film this.

I'm sitting here having watched 'Return to Sender' and I genuinely don't know what to think. I'm not even sure whether I enjoyed it or not. I could justify giving it a '3' and I could equally justify giving it a '9'. It's my kind of movie first of all. I love the 'revenge' genre. This is an odd case of that genre though. In fact I wasn't even sure it was that type of movie until 4/5 of the way through, despite the movie poster heavily implying it.

It's not a particularly well made movie, at least technically. The sound engineering is poorly done in certain scenes. Every scene involving the prison phones is incredibly hard to hear the dialogue in. It chops in and out and is often inaudible. The story is choppy and alienates the audience at times by leaving them clueless as to what the point of this all is. And yet through all this, I was having a pretty good time watching it (I think).

Rosamund Pike is a very fine actress and has the chops to carry a movie (as she proved in 'Gone Girl'). She's again pretty good here, and with a stronger script could have accomplished a performance on par with her one in 'Gone Girl' (the two roles are actually strikingly similar). It's hard to explain exactly what an odd experience 'Return to Sender' is to someone who hasn't seen it. Would I recommend this film for someone to watch? I'm still not entirely sure. The only thing I can say is watch it to see what I mean.

Return to Sender did have some potential, a subject that is hard-hitting and easy to relate to and Rosamund Pike and Nick Nolte are watchable in a lot of their work. Return to Sender has some decent assets, but overall is pretty messy and like a missed opportunity.

Pike is nowhere near as good as her deservedly Oscar-nominated performance in Gone Girl (a far superior film, no matter how polarising it is, and Amy is much more interestingly written than Miranda), but she still plays the role with charisma and an appropriate iciness. Shiloh Fernandez has his unsure moments but mostly suitably sleazy, but the film's best performance comes from Nick Nolte, whose sympathetic performance gives a glimmer of emotional backbone and his character is the one character and asset that is halfway credible. Return to Sender is reasonably well-filmed too and fits the atmosphere well with some nice shots.

The rest of the cast reads of acting like wooden marionettes, and none of the characters are fleshed out are often underwritten. Apart from some of the camera work, the production values are generally too TV-film quality and the direction is lazy and confused, showing a lot of inexperience in the genre, a lack of suspense and a lack of ability to make the narrative cohesive. The script is illogical, predictable and completely lacking in realism, the way it flows and is delivered also never feels natural. The story is all over the place and doesn't know what it wants to be, it does agreed feel like three different films and it does little with the second and third acts, the first act actually does have a little tension and some genuine sympathy for Miranda.

However, the character study second act has some far too pedestrian and lazy pacing, far too wooden and underdeveloped characterisation (with the exception of Nolte) and emotional impact is minimal (only provided by Nolte). And the third revenge act is sorely devoid of tension or suspense, increasing predictability to the extent that you're exclaiming 'we knew it!' and suffers from Miranda's actions not being believable for a second. The ending is very rushed and even the open feel felt abrupt and under-explained, it is also rather brutal and any sympathy felt for Miranda in the first act is completely diminished here.

Overall, messy (with the biggest offender being the story) and a missed opportunity, with its moments (the performances of Pike, Nolte and Fernandez, some nice shots and a decent first act). 4/10 Bethany Cox

This movie could have been so good but it got lazy halfway through.It started out at a good pace;interesting,good acting,liked the characters,it seemed to be going good.Then she gets raped.Then there's the whole slow,depressed,stay in the house, everyone try to cheer her up part.Then she gets herself together and you think,OK,here we go,this is gonna get good.NO!!She visits him a million times till he gets out,then lets him work on her house for about a month i think.Then feeds him anti freeze in lemonade to make him pass out and cuts off his dong.I admit thats pretty cool but the torture/revenge part of the movie was literally about six minutes tops.they don't even show it.You just have to assume.Then she goes to her dads and says"he wont be coming around anymore",I don't know if she killed him,and if she did;HOW? But my main problem with this movie is that she told her rapist,during the two minute torture, that the anti freeze killed her dads dog".That one line,out of the whole movie,bothered the hell out of me because they never implied that she was going crazy or was some kind of sadistic psycho.She had a good relationship with her dad and we were led to believe that she was taking care of the dog when he got sick.Honestly,after she said that,i wished her rapist broke free and killed her.so anyway,5 and a half really but i gave it 6 cause i like Nick Nolte.

Unfortunately, all three of them are bad.

This film is a mess. It starts out with a woman being raped, then turns into an attempt at a character study, then ends up a cheesy revenge flick. It's all over the place and never segues any of the different threads in a way that make it watchable.

It's a shame to see Pike and Nolte in this, they're way above it. To be fair to them, they both do as well as they can with the material, but it would have been better suited as a movie of the week.

Don't waste your time with this one. It sounds interesting, and you think maybe the synopsis is short in case it gives too much away. It's not. It's short because it's that or an essay explaining that this film isn't about anything because it has no idea what its doing.

The single nurse Miranda Wells (Rosamund Pike) is preparing to become surgical nurse and is buying the house of her dreams. Miranda is very close to her father Mitchell Wells (Nick Nolte) that is helping her to fix her house to sell it to raise the necessary money to buy the other house. One day, a colleague schedules a blind date with a sweet man called Kelvin. Miranda is still getting dressed when she sees a man on the porch. She assumes that the man is Kevin and invites him in, but he is actually a rapist that rapes her. When the real Kevin arrives, he finds Miranda in the kitchen and calls the police. Miranda identifies the rapist William Finn (Shiloh Fernandez) that is immediately arrested. When she recovers, her life turns upside down since nobody wants to buy her house and she can not be a surgical nurse since her right hand has tremors after the rape. Out of the blue, she writes a letter to William but the letter returns to her. She insists on sending it and when she receives a reply, she goes to the prison to visit William. When Williams is released, he is welcomed by Miranda in her house. What is happening to Miranda?

"Return to Sender" is a flawed thriller about a woman that sees her life partially destroyed after a rape. The Brazilian title is a spoiler since discloses that it is a story of revenge. However the plot is flawed since there are many evidences that Miranda had visited William in the prison and might have witnesses seeing the man working at her house. Therefore, in case of any investigation of his disappearance, Miranda could be a suspect since she has the motive. There are more smart means of revenging. My vote is four.

Title (Brazil): "Sede de Vingança" ("Thirsty of Revenge")

this review will contain massive spoilers, but already the trailers tells the whole story, so do not fell afraid.If you expect this movie to be good just because Miss Pike is in it, you're in for a massive bad surprise. It is a total loss of your spare time, just watch the trailer, and you will not be submitted to bad acting, even the protagonist overacts, I get it, she was in Gone Girl, such a hit, but how could he accept to play in such a movie? the script is bad, the acting is bad, the image... you guessed it, bad.The actions of the movie are completely unthought, so you get rapped, go back to work, continue to be a bitch, yeah, a bitch, who by the way killed her father's dog just to check the efficency of some kind of poison, just to have an epiphany and go visit your rapist, seduce him, lure him into your home, and get revenge. And when you think the good stuff is about to happen it just end, that's it. If you want psychological plots, watch Hard Candy, spare your eyes.

Rosamund Pike is often hailed as a great actress but I find her smug in every movie she's in.

From the first few scenes, to the last scene, she's smug.

Basically this movie is about a rape, and how the character Pike aims to put her life back together again.

The dialogue is slow. The acting slow. And the revenge 'meh'. I Spit On Your Grave, this is not.

Nick Nolte co-stars but is wasted in the role of Pike's father.

All in all, this movie is nothing more than a TV movie, the sort of thing you'd tuned into around 3pm in the afternoon.

I could have been better but it lacks punch.

I'll admit, I did not watch the whole thing.

From the beginning the movie seems pretty misanthropic. Every man in the movie except the main character's dad is sleazy and awful. The movie is all about "stranger-danger", and "all men are rapists just waiting to jump the pretty blonde protagonist at any moment!" The symbolism of the dog attacking her and ripping her dress early in the movie was not lost on me. Everywhere she turns, men are bumping into her, getting in her way, or making sleazy comments to the cashier in front of her. Then that culminates to a graphic random rape scene. At that point I thought, "ok, that's enough movie-watching for today..."

I almost wanted to keep watching because I love the actresses Rosamund Pike and Illeana Douglas, but it was not enough. It seemed pretty clear that the movie was going to be predictable Lifetime Television for Women crap. Fear-porn for the bored house-wife. No thanks.

Return to Sender is quite a weird concept. It's about a rape victim who seduces her rapist so she could conquer her trauma, and of course, lead to a revenge. It's queasy, but simple enough. And a recipe of this strange idea won't be effective if it wasn't for Rosamund Pike, who was fresh from an Oscar nomination, by doing what she exactly did from that movie. It's fine by that, but unfortunately, the movie struggles defining the danger of this rather daring act. We can't exactly see who is much crazier or who has more of the darker intention, who is more clever and who is naive. This clashing mystery is supposed to make it more exciting and tense, but the movie loses its way by hardly acknowledging the scarier possibilities because both characters push the limits of their humanity.

The first act is honestly strong for a rather schlocky material. Sure, the direction still feels pretty B-rated, but the setup brings real potential for a compelling story arc. The rape doesn't only ruined the main character's sensibilities, it also kept her from leaving the house where the incident took place, being haunted by the trauma even more. The solution of her problem is just pretty weird. Sure, she is facing her own fears, trying to befriend with the worst person she knows, but it eventually neglects the augmented danger once she tries to make the rapist fall in love with her. This is the point where the characters shifts into being unbelievable.

The real tension must rely on questioning how is this a good idea to overcome her fears or getting the revenge she wanted. The movie doesn't likely make the two look in danger because they already seem too crazy to worry about their fate, that it might lead themselves to a fight scene or something. At least in Gone Girl, there is a sense of being dubious on Amy's plan. Here, Miranda seems to be too smug on what she's doing, that her eventual insanity is just a downright contrivance. Another comparison to Pike's other movie, the "big" scenes there are built with surprise. Here, even at a twisted scene, it just feels unexciting and even worse, predictable. Only the performances can level it up, somewhat. Rosamund Pike's better moments happen in the first act. The rest is like turning her into a larger caricature than she should be. The only good actor in the supporting is obviously Nick Nolte who has great moments with Pike which turn almost everything into a totally different, but better movie.

Return to Sender already feels uncomfortable in its concept; it turns a serious subject as a backdrop of a typical thriller. But even for its set pieces, the suspense almost felt nonexistent. The two conflicting characters may go nuts with nothing left to lose, but you just don't care about what point would it lead to their downfall. It's hard to get inserted into these characters. There is a sense of reality, at the same time, a forced insanity in the end. Gone Girl does have that intersection of realism and absurdity, but at least it was done with style, interesting commentary and genuine shock. Here, it's all standard campiness. It's not quite fun, not even to those who are seeking for more of Rosamund Pike being a sociopath and destroying some man's life.

*****This review contains spoilers***** If you don't expect Gone Girl then the film is quite good. Nothing special but definitely watchable.

The film follows Miranda (Rosamund Pike, pretty much the reason I wanted to watch this film) who lives in a small town. We only see her with her work colleagues and also her father (Nick Nolte). We see her having troubles around town and she is also dating. One day one of her dates, William (Shiloh Fernandez), arrives early and causes her a lot of harm, going to prison in this process.

I'm sure if you have read anything about this film you will know the subject matter. This particular scene is very brutal and quite a lengthy scene. It made me feel sick.

The film from this point goes a few different directions and had me questioning some of the actions of the characters. We see Pike and Fernandez's characters agreeing to meet in the prison. They believe that they can erase the horrible memory by getting to know each other and putting things right. Some of these scenes are hard to watch and at times a little cringe worthy.

When William is released from prison, the film becomes even more strange as we see him go to Miranda's house (something which she agrees to) to help fix the house up. She is trying to sell the house but nobody will buy. William goes to the house for a few days helping her out and it is just strange, it is one of the weirdest on screen relationships I have ever seen. I didn't know if this was it or whether there would be one last twist.

It was very much a slow burning process appearing to go nowhere until that classic scene happens, yes you guessed it, William's drink is spiked by Miranda...how predictable. She then takes him hostage in her basement and becomes to torture him in a style similar to Ellen Page in Hard Candy (2005).

After finally getting to this stage of the film I felt the ending was rushed. Everything is left open to the imagination of the viewer as nothing is really shown but I'm pretty sure there was only one outcome.

Overall it was an OK psychological thriller with a good performance from Rosamund Pike. At times the film felt a bit unnecessarily slow and cringe worthy but it is a decent film to watch once if there is nothing else on.

6/10.

While this movie had a huge amount of potential it ended up being a "WTH" kinda' watch. The movie starts off and for a second I forgot the movie was a thriller since it had a bit of a comedic start. It's slow and then I think I missed something, and then the climax happened. I was re- intrigued!! But touch me in the morning and walk away but I must have missed something......again. I'm a committer so I couldn't bring myself to turn it off for hopes it would re-intrigue me and what do you know it did. But touch me twice and walk away twice..........the ending SUCKS a big-timer! I implore you to join my misery and watch the movie anyway. Feel my pain and understand my dis-in-trigue!!

Return to Sender is a rather predictable crime drama. It took me less than half the film to figure out what was happening and what the outcome would be.

Sadly the script is well worn revenge fare that falls short of the mark. For me, this film would have had far more impact had it walked a gentler path of reconciliation and redemption. Of course, this would have meant painting the villain of the piece in a more positive light but that was not to be.

That's not to say this is a poor film. Rosamund Pike does a reasonable job in the lead role. I was surprised to see Nick Nolte. I thought he might have retired. I'm glad he's still acting and for me, his performance was the highlight of this film.

All in all, Return to Sender is watchable but I really can not find any firm foundation on which to recommend it. Five out of ten from me.

Terrible, terrible, terrible. At least "I Spit On Your Grave" knew what is was--exploitation trash. This film tries to pretend it's more profound and arty, but it's your standard rape/revenge flick with a rapist straight out of central casting and the ridiculous idea that a woman as beautiful as Pike needs to be set up on a blind date by her frumpy friends. You'd think at least one of the doctors she works with might have expressed some interest in taking her to dinner (and you'd be right). Pike isn't an actress with a great deal of range, but this is her follow-up to the lead in "Gone Girl?" Her revenge even involves a surgical procedure I'm sure you can figure out (since every film like this includes it). This is 'worst film of all time' material for sure.

I am just going to rate this movie with a seven because the actors were good. The story itself was not bad and even pleasant to follow. The only thing that I was sad about is that the things that happened in the end should have happened much earlier in the movie to make it more entertaining. You just got to wait too long for those things to happen and I could see it coming from miles away. Nevertheless Rosamund Pike and Shiloh Fernandez gave us good performances, and even the old Nick Nolte was believable in his role. But like I said, it's a pity that the story did not peak in the middle instead of the end. I am sure Return To Sender would have done better with the ratings then. But still it's an okay movie to watch once.

I was enjoying the movie quite a bit to be honest. Even after the weird stuff with her letting him work on her house, I was like...this is going to be good! WRONG!!!! The scene with him on the gurney was a bust. There's blood on his wrist area and she said something that lead me to believe she cut off his hand. Then he looks under the blanket and I am assuming she cut off his manhood. Somewhere in all this she tells the guy that she killed her dads dog which was how she figured out how much poison she would need for him. Then when he tells her not to leave him to die she tells the guy "I let my mom die...." So by the end of it all, I really didn't care that she was raped because she seemed like a dang psycho who was waiting for something to set her off; I found myself kind of angry about it because it almost was written so one wouldn't feel bad for this woman having been raped. And when she was talking to her dad and the screen went black, I thought it was going to into a 1 month later kind of thing, but no it just ended. Boo!!

At the beginning of the movie, I was struggling to recall where I have seen this pretty face before. It wasn't until a third had passed, I finally got it. Gone girl. So I figured that was where the sinister feeling came from. But I didn't expect the twist was going to emerge so early.

Was Maranda sending letters to him in prison??? Dubious behavior. "You win" was written on the back of the envelope. William, are you getting your hope up again soon after you raped her? OMG, she came to visit in an open back dress. A wicked trap, no doubt about that.

Was that about 50mins into the movie? For the rest of the time, I was just counting minutes and yawning. I repeated "kill him, kill him, just do it..." for a thousand times silently. There was nothing surprising when he was drugged just like the pitiful dog. Of course, she wanted to revenge. Of course, he being a minor scumbag had no chance to escape her deadly and jerking claws. But, kill someone released on parole just like that? Wasn't he supposed to send weekly reports to authorities? Hadn't anyone seen him working on her porch? Her dad surely did. OK, a father wouldn't rat out his little girl. But didn't she know that William went to the local store for paints? When her dad was venting at her , he was waving the piece of shade guide. There was no way she would miss that. Nevertheless, the fire of revenge was scorching and she was the ultimate predator. If no one else cared about the plot holes, why should she do?

The performance was OK. I think the biggest disappointment was that the twist was exposed too early–like I said above. Before anything else, the character of Maranda was too similar to the one in Gone girl. This overlap alone could give away the biggest twist of the movie easily to anyone who recognized her and had some imagination. The ending was also not thought through. She was basically asking for trouble by killing William like that. But, well, that is just typical for these kind of movies. Once the twist is revealed, the class will be over. But Gone girl at least combined a variety of elements to keep audience excited. The plot of this movie, on the other hand, was just very linear.

This is not a good script. The story is good for 15 minutes and then after the first event, it begins to be boring. The all movie, I was waiting for something to happen and it never happened. Like i said, the first 15 minutes of the movie are good, because it is intriguing and there is character development, then the all movie is boring, there is no character development, apart from the father and at the end there is an event that make no sens. As a viewer, I felt a little like the father, when he screams to her daughter that she is crazy. but his role just does not impact the movie. Actors are not bad, there are some good scenes,but this does not make it a good movie since the story does not make sens. There is no intrigue, and you fell like the character played by Rosamund Pike is just stupid, until the end where you find out she is crazy for doing all this. And her role was sometimes badly played, especially for scenes with her father. You don't attach yourself to any character and you don't care if they live or die. Similar movies like this already exist and are just better. There is no point in watching this movie.

CONTAINS SPOILERS I found this to be a great story line and great acting by all of the cast..camera work was great..this film had me from the beginning i was right into this movie..the main character was believable and later on you start to realise this woman isn't all that she seemed to be in the beginning...this woman is a nurse that.has a big germ phobia..she finally after 6 months agrees to go on a blind date that her friend set up and while at home getting ready a worker from the local restaurant comes to her home and rapes her and then the blind date walks in later and finds the aftermath of the rape..any the man is jailed for her rape and she starts having problems at work with her hands shaking etc and decides to write to her rapist and eventually starts visiting him on a weekly basis and practically flirts and dresses provocatively and seems to get upset when she can't see him...cut a long story short he gets out of prison and allows him to start doing repairs on her home but never allows him inside..then he says oh i don't feel well and begs to come inside which i thought was a ploy to get inside and hurt her again anyways she lets him inside and you hear a bang and he wakes up in a bed in the basement strapped down and she had poisoned him with cool aid in the lemonade then goes and cuts his hand off while he's drugged and then i was thinking wow this is getting great then bam she says i win and it ends...such a stupid ending to something that had a lot if promise and kept me watching till the very end to then be disappointed... this was a great movie until the very end which left you hanging for just that bit more to finish the movie but it came up short unfortunately...

You are right, stevedonovan-35045. When Rosamund killed the dog, that was over for me... I could feel for her because nobody deserves to be raped: no woman, no man. But killing an innocent animal, the best friend of her father because she was not. She never cared... and still picks the same characters over and over because it comes naturally for her. She is so arrogant, even in "Pride & Prejudice". After she killed the dog... everyone thought she deserved what she got, being also nasty to her father, her colleagues, random people. I hope there won't be any sequel. A very bad movie. Just like "Gone Girl" with another arrogant actor there, Neil Harris. Anyway she could have also got this man in a blind date... nobody who knew her wanted to date her.

2 stars because I did not fall asleep.

Second all of the above, boring, illogical, aimless. I came with low expectations and left disappointed.For a second I thought it might explore the situation where she developed real feelings for the attacker (Lars von Trier style) or some other plot twist. Although it is horrible what happens to the protagonist, you kind of feel detached at some point when she executes on a lengthy plan to get her revenge. It is a waste of Pikes talent. When I started to take more interest in the selection of cute summer dresses Pike was wearing I knew the story was lost on me. Do not bother with this movie, there are equally good dresses to see on pinterest without having to sit through this disappointing drama.

6.25 of 10. Is it the fantasy of a rapist or a victim? That's part of the mystery of this film that initially seems like Rosamund Pike taking a step back into a TV-like nurse/hospital surgery story drama-lite hiding another tale of a sweet woman finding true love or an emergency room fest. Fortunately, it's a decoy and slowly starts to expand into something else.

Instead, we get a quirky germ-a-phobic involved in a strange case of post-traumatic-stress, forgiveness of a violent crime, and a psychopath.

The ending doesn't explicitly setup a sequel, but the nature of the climax and ending set one up very well.

The weak spots involve some sharp shifts in what's happening, very little plot development, and why certain people are looked to or how something is known. For a short film, it still requires above average patience.