Kevin Maher The Times (UK) Mar 12, 2024

Charismatic performances and credible camaraderie are what set this apart from traditional slasher thrillers.

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Kaleem Aftab The List Nov 4, 2018 3/5

The twists and turns come thick and fast as events spiral out of control, with Blackburn giving this formulaic and often staid genre an unexpectedly fresh garnish.

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Joshua Rothkopf Time Out Nov 17, 2011 3/5

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Kelly Vance East Bay Express Aug 16, 2011

At least there's not a bag-head haunting the ship.

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Dave White Movies.com Apr 4, 2011 2/5

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William Goss Cinematical Dec 17, 2009

Blackburn takes one boat, one body, a rising tide of panic and a rising number of corpses and uses them all to craft the best bad news possible.

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Robert Levin Critic's Notebook Mar 13, 2009 2.5/4

A nasty little thriller that might have worked had it tempered its propensity for outrageous brutality.

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Andrew L. Urban Urban Cinefile Mar 5, 2009

A first class thriller from start to finish, Donkey Punch has the lot: raunchy holiday fun, gorgeous locations, a luxury yacht, drug-driven sex orgy and a mishap

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Maitland McDonagh Miss FlickChick Mar 2, 2009

Very Bad Things meets Knife in the Water in ... [this] thriller about not-so-bright young things trying to cover up a nasty accident.

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Ted Fry Seattle Times Feb 12, 2009 2.5/4

Packs a magnetic jolt of fearsome intensity.

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Philip Kennicott Washington Post Feb 12, 2009

Donkey Punch is almost humorless, and there's no wink and nudge behind the mayhem to absolve us of taking its ugly, class-obsessed subtext seriously.

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David Nusair Reel Film Reviews Feb 10, 2009 2/4

...has been infused with an egregiously plodding sensibility that effectively renders its few positive attributes moot.

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Michael Dequina TheMovieReport.com Feb 7, 2009 2.5/4

I look forward to Blackburn making a thriller with a script to match his style.

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Steven Rea Philadelphia Inquirer Feb 5, 2009 2.5/4

It's Dead Calm meets Very Bad Things, with English accents.

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Rex Reed Observer Feb 4, 2009

Unfortunately, Donkey Punch delivers a donkey punch of its own.

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Sean Burns Philadelphia Weekly Feb 3, 2009

On the plus side, at least it wasn't called Dirty Sanchez.

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Avi Offer NYC Movie Guru Jan 30, 2009 4/10

Had director Blackburn included at least one interesting character that wasn't bird-brained and had he moved the mayhem much earlier within the plot, the film would have been at least refreshing to watch rather than mostly dull and derivative.

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Wesley Morris Boston Globe Jan 29, 2009 2/4

Anyone looking for a stoned and bikinied update of L'Avventura, Purple Noon, Dead Calm, or other boat-bound chillers will have to settle for The Real World: Death Yacht.

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Abbie Bernstein iF Magazine Jan 27, 2009 8/10

British thriller about seven college-age Britons in Spain who come together for an afternoon of flirting and wind up having a night of sex, paranoia and murder

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Kurt Loder MTV Jan 26, 2009

The ending is never much in doubt. Getting to it, however, involves a slightly better-than-usual assortment of cheap, harrowing thrills.

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