RAGE - Part three of the Teardrop Poundland saga. 'Rage' is a sort-of 'Duel' rip-off about a philandering writer who is victimised by a disgruntled motorcyclist. His past follies come home roost when his wife is brutally raped and his elderly neighbours are chainsawed by motorpsycho guy. I can't really recommend 'Rage', although I tried to like it. The bedroom violation scene is, whilst not explicit, fairly grimy and harrowing and I suppose the last twenty minutes on the whole are possessed of an OK level of nastiness which would've made 'Rage' more of a proposition had the rest of it shown similar tendencies. But 'Rage' is mostly about build-up - not a problem in itself, but the backstory here is clichéd and fumbling, and the man-against-cyclist pursuit is tension free. It put me in mind of 'Duel again and made me want to watch it, and I feel I'm being very generous in saying that maybe that's where my pound really went in this case.
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