Closure (2007)

Referred to as "Straightheads" over in the UK. The X-Files' Gillian Anderson gives an impressive performance as a woman obsessed by revenge in this sleek and chilly English thriller by documentary filmmaker Dan Reed. Anderson is top-billed as a Brit businesswoman who invites the rough-hewn tech (Danny Dyer) who's installing her security system to a business party in the country. Slow-boiling sexual tension between the two to an erotic encounter in the woods – which is soon undercut by a savage attack by a group of local hunters, who gang-rape Anderson and beat Dyer senseless. As they recover, viewers soon learn that the pair's trauma runs deeper than just the physical level – Dyer is emotionally shattered, and Anderson is gripped by a need to repay her attackers with violence more terrible than what they visited upon her. Though the plot occasionally veers into implausible territory, the couple's search for the guilty party – and the gruesome fate they have in store for them – is unnerving, and made all the more so by Anderson intense turn, which presents a torrent of conflicting emotions raging just below her cool, porcelain surface.

Anderson clearly carries this film from start to finish and her solid, emotional performance never waivers. It does not hurt that she looks incredible. Why could she not look this good for most of the X-Files? I have to say, she has enormous nipples that remind me of an air valve on an inflatable beach ball. Also watching her terminator-style performance in the woods with a rifle & scope got me jacked up. Got to love those bitches on a mission. Dyer on the other hand just seems lost. His performance is often annoying and tends to be a whimpering pussy through most of the film. The revenge attack at the end was quite surprising as I never ever thought I would see Scully raping a man with a shotgun up his arse. Good bloody times over in the UK. Overall, I enjoyed the movie, though it was a bit disturbing at times (the dog did not need to be killed)!
Movie Score: 8.5/10