Demonlover
| Year: | 2004 |
| Director: | Olivier Assayas |
| Writer: | Olivier Assayas |
| Cast: | Connie Nielsen, Chloe Sevigny, Gina Gershon |
Spoiler!
What looked like a very sexy action/techno thriller, like an edgier, soft porn The Matrix, turned out a bit of a disappointment.
It's not afraid to name names in the big business world of tech and games development, but the promising set-up doesn't really go anywhere.
Setting up a deal to distribute hardcore manga from a Japanese producer, Connie Neilsen plays a hard as nails businesswoman who gets mixed up in a world she thinks she can manage, filled with corporate espionage and counterespionage.
It shifts into high gear in a surprisingly scary and crushing ending where the heroine finds herself locked in a grimy prison cell in Eastern Europe waiting for some kid in the world to give a credit card number to watch her get sexually tortured over the Internet.
It's not afraid to name names in the big business world of tech and games development, but the promising set-up doesn't really go anywhere.
Setting up a deal to distribute hardcore manga from a Japanese producer, Connie Neilsen plays a hard as nails businesswoman who gets mixed up in a world she thinks she can manage, filled with corporate espionage and counterespionage.
It shifts into high gear in a surprisingly scary and crushing ending where the heroine finds herself locked in a grimy prison cell in Eastern Europe waiting for some kid in the world to give a credit card number to watch her get sexually tortured over the Internet.