Blue Swan (2014) Review
Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2016 7:24 am
Blue Swan stars Belle fatale as the titular role who is awakened suddenly one night with visions of her sister in trouble. Redwing’s powers are dependent on Blue Swan’s and vice versa. When one struggles, so does the other. While Redwing is battling Deathwing, Swan finds herself dealing with two horny, soulless thugs. The two should be no match for Swan, but visions of Redwing’s struggles overtake her ability to focus on the fight, and soon she finds herself unbalanced and outmatched. Find out what happens!
And the first thing I loved about this film was the action and the pacing, feeling breakneck and powerful with every hit I forgot I was reviewing it and simply sat and enjoyed, Belle is incredibly good at selling the weight of every punch given and received, and that coupled with the slick and swift direction make for some bad-ass moments.
I also love how the direction sexualizes Blue Swan, but in a much more subtle was as she’s simply not prancing around in revealing poses, but has a lot of assertiveness and class coupled with her articulate manners make for a subtler eroticism and sexuality that burns slowly, but twice as bright which also has a lot to do with Belle’s incredibly curvaceous body.
Another great pro is Belle herself, adding a comfort and an upper-hand to her heroine that lets her fully converse with thugs without being distracted which makes for funny/entertaining viewing, and this also sets up a power over the situation that begs to be taken down so we can see our hot heroine in peril.
She also encapsulates both the articulate nature and sharp wit of the character as well as an overarching anxiety that soon reveals itself over the course of the film, and does so flawlessly, and when the flashbacks grow more frequent it becomes unbearably tense as she shows so much frenzied fear and peril in these moments with her loud yelps and screams that are sure to titillate in this hectic yet riveting sequence.
Another thing I really I love is the tight script full of callbacks to Redwing that enhance the universe, and give an expansive, involving feel to the characters as both films feel connected, and it goes to great lengths to show the duality of the sisters and how one is powered by rage, and the other tact which is again very involving and develops a relationship we’ve never seen.
I also like the fact that because they’re connected that their pain is also connected, and in turn their perils become synchronized across both films in a tragic twist of fate, making both perils happen side by side adding more development to their connection as sisters.
And as the peril scenes go on, while titillating and amplified by Belle’s fantastic reactions and mannerisms it does grow a little tedious after a while as we’ve seen this sort of thing before, and there isn’t much to distinguish it from other heroine films, I think it really needed a catch.
Luckily when the location changes it comes up with an interesting new setting, and a plot device that I won’t spoil, and that is a personal turn-on of mine, that more than sets it apart from other films, and is incredibly erotic which is a testament to the writing and the set design which really paints the criminals lives,
and coupled with more of Belles fantastically bitter and painful reactions/performance make for a great ending, and a catch that really helped the film in all the places where it needed it, the great direction makes this end scene so provocative, and all the positions make Belle’s already beautiful body look even more sensational. It is a gritty and frantic scene filled sexual energy that finishes the film on a strong note.
So all in all this film is incredibly well directed, designed and acted, even though It did have it’s problems in the middle with the peril feeling a little too familiar, but it soon won me back over with new setting, plot devices and Belle Fatale’s absolutely amazing performance, So with that being said I definitely recommend this film.
9/10
