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"I Want To Get Even" is just the way your reviewer likes them. Over-the-top, make the jaws drop, what planet did this come from? Wild and wooly Indonesian melodrama about a good, decent pregnant girl who is brutally gang-raped by some drug lords. Her fine, upstanding husband doesn't take too kindly to the situation and throws her from his speeding taxicab!

Our heroine miscarries her child (in graphic fashion) and decides to put on a headband, mounts a mini-bike armed with a bazooka, and, well, she "wants to get even."

"Even" is simultaneously a hilarious third world action picture and a bleak statement on the role of women in Southeast Asia.

Despite the fact that he can only 'get it up' when he's knocking seven shades of the proverbial out of her, pregnant Irma loves her husband Rudi. You see, apart from smacking her about during sex, it seems that Rudi's not such a bad hubby. Ain't that sweet?

However, after his wife is abducted by a gang of criminals and raped, Rudi ruins his chances at being voted 'Husband of the Year': he blames their unborn child for their troubles (believing it to be cursed) and begs his wife to get an abortion. When she refuses, he abandons her by the side of the road (after she falls out of the moving car that he is driving).

From this point on, Lady Exterminator descends even further into an incredible mess of rapes and revenge...

Feeling wronged, Rudi sets out to kick some rapist thug ass, but, after attacking the gang and getting a beating himself, he reconsiders his approach: instead of attacking the criminals directly, he opts to rape Mia, the sister of gang member Ronnie.

A rather miffed Ronnie then sends his men after Rudi, who give him another severe drubbing. This mess upsets crime boss Cobra, who kicks Ronnie out of his organisation, and then... get this... rapes Mia to teach Ronnie a lesson!!.

Meanwhile Irma has an operation to remove her stillborn child.

Ronnie, upset that Mia has now also been raped by Cobra, attacks his ex-boss' headquarters, getting a little help from his loyal gang. A gun fight ensues, the police turn up, Ronnie is accidentally killed, and Cobra and his cronies make their escape.

Rudi, who is still live 'n' kicking despite his injuries, pursues Cobra and Co., blasting them with a machine gun. Suddenly, from out of nowhere, Irma appears, clad in sexy leather gear and sporting some high-powered weaponry. Rudi forgives his wife, and together they proceed to kick criminal butt.

Sounds good, doesn't it? Well, unfortunately, despite featuring more rape and revenge than your average rape/revenge movie, this film pretty much sucks. Apart from the VERY occasional 'good bit' (the brief but bloody 'birth', and some daft action at the end, which includes an exploding body), this film is a dreary and tedious piece of crap.

The martial arts on display are terrible, the sex features zero nudity, and the motor-vehicle stunts are extremely unimpressive. Some fun can be had from the sheer ineptitude of the whole affair (particularly with the slapdash manner in which Irma aims her weapon, yet always scores a bullseye), but the chances are that you'll wind up wishing you had watched something else instead.

Hee-Haw!!! My goal of building da woild's biggest collection of exotic Z-movies is slowly becoming reality. This is my fourth Indonesian movie starring Miss Eva Arnaz!

Artwork and liner notes of it's German video release called "Commando Wildcat" is made up like a Rambo/Mercenary type of thing, which was very popular back then.

In addition to the review the guy before me posted I'd like to say that "I want to Get Even" is the only film in my memory which depicts rape as a respected measurement of day to day dealings with your significant other.

Rudy, the cab driver can only have sex with his wife if she allows him to beat her up during the act. Which she - of course - abides lovingly. After she's raped by the mob the same man though wants her to have the now "impure" child aborted, before he in turn rapes the local mob sub-boss' sister as an act of vengeance.

The scene showing child-removal surgery uses a skinned rabbit for a fetus - just like Joe D'Amato's infamous Italian 80s splatter fave "Man-Eater", also known as "Antropophagus". Global trashmeisters seem to share a certain mental connection when it comes to realising filmic ideas.

The non-violent scenes are impossibly boring with dialogues scratching the surface of really lame soap operas the way they are made in South America (Salomé, Sinha Moca etc.).

I admit that I laughed out loud when she kills a hood using a bazooka from a distance of maybe 8 ft and decides to live with her abusive hubby happily ever after.

Dear fellow friends of good entertainment: Is this world really like that?