I Spit on Your Grave: Deja Vu (2019)

A direct sequel to the notorious 1978's "Day of the Woman aka I Spit on your Grave" with the same director and leading actress. Sounded good on paper..

But Meir Zarchi only directed 3 films (including this one) - in his life ! He was involved in the remake and it's sequels but didn't direct any of them.

Apparently this film was shelved for quite some time so one wonders why it wasn't introduced into the editing room: half of it's ridiculous running time of 2 12 hours (!!) could've been cut easily.

The cast is downright horrible: Camille Keaton was excellent in the original but here she's terrible and Jamie Bernadette (with the most ridiculous haircut since Loraine Gary in "Jaws: The Revenge") gives the word 'overacting' a new dimension. She's unconvincing as a top model and certainly hasn't got the looks to pull it of. The only thing she tries to do in the film is looking angry all the time when she takes her revenge which results in some gore but nothing worth mentioning. The stereotype hillbilies are unintentionally funny instead of scary or menacing. The music and score is totally misplaced. The pacing is slow with boring and unnecessary scenes that go on forever.

The dialogue is laughable and annoying at the same time. The characters are cardboard dummies: the women can run away but don't or do so in slow motion and make the most stupid decisions. The rape scene hasn't got any impact and isn't disturbing at all. The stuttering hillbilly and the widow who gets personally involved make it more like a circus act than a vicious crime.

The original and the remake were very strong films. The sequel to the remake was also well done and very raw and disturbing. Part III was more in the line of "Ms 45" and and "Death Wish" but not bad. This latest entry isn't just an insult to the franchise, it's an insult to films in general. Yes, it's that bad so avoid at all costs..

Fmovies: The whole film seems to draggy. The characters dumb AF. Dont bother watching this, go watch the 2010 remake.

I saw the original "I Spit On Your Grave" when it was released in 1978, and it was one of the 70's grindhouse classics that stayed with me... incredibly sleazy but undeniably entertaining, gross, and yes, even shocking. When I read that the current "Deja Vu" release had cast Camille Keaton, who was the heroine in the original, I was immediately intrigued. I read two external reviews of the film on IMDB before I watched it, and both lauded the film, calling it "strong stuff," and "not for those with weak stomachs." Those reviewers clearly saw a very different film than I did. Clocking in at 148 minutes, this bloated, monotonous albatross was actually painful to watch.

I'm at a loss as to how anyone could have given thumbs up to the film the way it was written, shot and released. Did Meir Zarchi think that by casting Ms. Keaton - who adds nothing to the film and at times is embarrassing to watch - he was going to make this sequel the equivalent of "Gone With the Wind?" His screenplay couldn't have been less than 400 pages long. Every single scene in this film is AT LEAST 2-3 times longer than it should be... the extraneous, redundant, astoundingly monotonous dialogue just goes on and on, until it finally grinds the pace of the film to a complete halt. For a b-film, the actors are believable in their performances, but they just never, ever shut up. Even the ending becomes maddening... the director continues to add more and more small, absurd plot elements to incessantly draw it out. How long did it take to shoot this? With the incessant monologues and additions to the plot it must have been an endless production schedule.

ISOYG-DV doesn't even come remotely close to the creativity or sleaziness of the original... this should have been way over-the-top, as the original was the grandfather of revenge flicks. Instead, it's slow, dull and flat. Even the few special effects are totally unconvincing, and the plot remains disappointingly tame.

This could have passed as a mediocre exploitation film if they whittled it down to about an hour and fifteen minutes, which would have considerably picked up the film's tempo and relieved a lot of the boredom. As it is now, it's an interminable, frustrating mess.

I Spit on Your Grave: Deja Vu fmovies. This is really sad you get excited about a movie the to see the mockery of what they did the acting is horrible and the storyline is even worse please stop messing with good movies

The original was shocking for it's time n while the remake n its sequels were brutal n the kills were nightmarishly innovative but this one is a total time waster without any good kills. In this film the lead actress tells the victim before killing him that she will not waste time in tricking n rather shoot the balls. Well, for one thing this film is a total time waster, ther is zero creativity n no wonder the kills r all lousy. Everything happens in broad daylight n ther is absolutely no one around apart from the main characters. Too much of talks, zero suspense n zero tension. The lead actress looks as if she is amnesiac. Jim Tavaré who played Herman looks like poor man's Michael Berryman. And as if the film isnt torturous enuff, we get to see Maria Olsen's ugly boobs.

I dunno, I didn't like that movie. Not one bit. The production was ...let's say ..not so bad but everything else was horrible! If you liked the original one, I am sure you won't like this. All characters were fake and the story totally idiotic. No deja vu for me, sorry...