Shocked by how bad this was

Rating: 2/10 (17 March 2019)

I think this may be the first IMDB review I've ever written. But I am so baffled by the high praise for this movie, I have to give my opinion on this movie.
First off, I saw Irreversible by this director over 10 years ago, and that movie was somewhat traumatizing to me. I actually had to look away during a couple different scenes and I never feel so repulsed by something in a movie that I have to look away, so that's saying something.
I heard only great things about Climax, and was cautiously excited to see it, mostly looking forward to how crazy it seemed it would be but also mentally preparing myself for anything that could possibly happen.
Then nothing happened. The very first (really last I guess) scene with the snow and person writhing around was the most interesting part of this movie, and we see that scene in the trailer. The dancing was cool, but gets tedious after awhile. It took forever for whatever the drug was (they mention LSD I think? But the way it makes them act doesn't really make sense) to kick in, and when it does, it's still tedious and just silly. I was hoping Gaspar Noe, the director, was going to film it in a way that made the audience almost feel the effect of the drug too, but his upside shots and shoddy handheld camerawork didn't bring me into the trip at all. I felt like I was watching mostly bad actors who've never done any drugs try to act like they were on drugs. The violence was very tame compared to what I was anticipating.
When it was over, I actually apologized to my husband for asking him to see it with me. We were both really shocked how bad and boring it was. I should have learned by now that review aggregators are not to be trusted, yet I still believed the baffling hype.