Awful

Rating: 2/10 (2 January 2017)

This is seriously a trashy film without any redeeming qualities. It's a perfect example of why Hollywood and movie-making globally needs more women producers, directors, writers and cinematographers.
This movie badly masquerades as high art when it's nothing more than violent porn. It's so vile it's absolutely shocking to see how highly rated it is here on IMDb.
The story is as absurd as a porn plot. The acting is bad except for (surprisingly) Mila Kunis. The cinematography is pathetic and simply makes the viewer more keenly aware that the choreography is bad and the dancing even worse.
It's not Gothic horror. Nor is it a psychological thriller. It's nothing more than the narcissistic violent'male gaze' exploiting, degrading, raping and murdering women.
For dance films, I recommend The Red Shoes, Swing Time, Turning Point, The Band Wagon, Top Hat, 42nd Street, Gold Diggers of 1933, Go Into Your Dance, An American in Paris, Singing in the Rain, Born to Dance, Broadway Melody of 1938, All That Jazz, Strictly Ballroom, Step Up, Cabaret, Dirty Dancing and the documentaries Baryshnikov: The Dancer and the Dance & Mad Hot Ballroom.