Boss Bitch Fight Challenge (2020 Video) User Reviews

Short, silly fun

[I_Ailurophile · 8/10 · 16 June 2021]

There's no story here, no characters; no technical film-making craft to speak of. I admit to a bit of confusion as to how a video like this makes it onto a website that compiles information on film or TV projects, and their cast and crew, while differentiating these from mundane vlogs and "YouTuber" content.

But that's just context for me to say: Okay, I enjoyed this.

Zoë Bell's "challenge" is not so much a short film as it is a game among friends, captured on video and edited very simply into a single piece for mass consumption. It's an exercise in film-making during a time when media production was shut down - along with, well, most things - amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Given the first person perspective, it feels a bit awkward in the same way as, say, an actor in a play momentarily holding our gaze in the audience; so it goes with most socially-distanced content of the past year. But it's still a small delight to see the concept play out, particularly with some of the more unexpected contributions that deviate from the others.

That it feels a bit longer than it needed to be is counterbalanced by the list of names participating. Everyone involved obviously had fun doing this, and it's hard not to share vicariously in that feeling.

Yes, it's silly, and won't be for everyone; I'm as surprised as anyone that I enjoyed watching. Yet any further long-winded critique, as one would apply to a more conventional feature, is 100% superfluous nonsense: This is a tiny peek into how Bell and her friends passed time during the pandemic, and all we have to do is decide how much we want to partake.

Worth five minutes of your time? Sure, why not.

Girls Fighting

[jfgibson73 · 7/10 · 15 August 2021]

Silly fun. Goes on a little too long, but you get to see some famous people do some ridiculous things.

Good content

[martabauch · 10/10 · 28 August 2020]

Yasra Rizvi has played a role which is very strong and bold. She fights for rights.

Turned it off 5 secs in

[christopherRclarke · 2/10 · 24 June 2021]

If it wasn't for famous people no one would watch this. Yawn.

Okay idea, but really only for a minute

[Horst_In_Translation · 2/10 · 11 February 2021]

I can probably not quote the title here because then my review will not get accepted for reasons of vulgarity, which is a bit of a pity because if it is allowed in the title, then it should be allowed in the review. Never mind. The director of these five minutes here is Zoë Bell and she is mostly known for being a stunt performer and actor on Quentin Tarantino's movies. Him I really like. This one here not at all. Bell's character is bored during corona days as this is from May 2020 when the pandemic was already going strong. So what does she do? Come up with an idea of how many famous actresses are hit in the face somehow and we see how they hit back. And many big names joined in. You can check out the list yourself, but the most known are probably Pugh, Diaz, Dawson, Saldana, Hannah and Tarantino's most recent discovery Julia Butters is on board as well. And Scarlett Johansson obviously. She is the biggest name from this thingey. Like her as well. Most of the time. As long as she is not getting political. The idea how men are shut out from this project is one I do not appreciate a lot. Genderism is never a good thing. Then again, that would have meant for the film to go even longer and I would not have wanted that, so it's all fine. But maybe replacing 50% of the women here by men could have been the right choice and maybe then change the order into male-female-male-female-male etc. Even if I am sure many would have complained about alleged violence against women this way, which is really ironic because this in fact is also what we see here, but to some it only seems to matter who is responsible for said violence, who is the aggressor and not who has to experience it. Just how it should matter. But here, it's of course all make-believe, so not a problem at all in my opinion because nobody really experiences physical pain.

But as it is, I still think the joke only worked somewhat well for one or two minutes, just like I said in the title of my review. Besides, even if you adore some of the actresses in here, you will see each of them only for ten seconds or so, probably shorter even. Some came up with decent creativity like Daryl Hannah channeling her Kill Bill character once again, also with the music, or we have somebody use fire. Somebody else uses a dog and another person is not willing to sacrifice a wine bottle for the attack. These moments were okay, here and there also a more embarrassing moment when one person talked way too much or Bell reappearing at the end with some kind of epilogue also did not impress me. I give this one my most negative rating overall and absolutely do not recommend the watch. Music (except Kill Bill) was also more on the embarrassing side and I guess compared to making stuff like that, it is probably better to stay bored or find other ways to spend your time. Besides, I am sure that Bell (and the others) here will be the very first to say they still have so much going on in their lives despite the lockdown, so this makes this movie even more unnecessary. Besides, I don't mind violence at all in films, love Tarantino as I stated, but there is a reason why Bell is the stunt artist and Tarantino the brilliant filmmaker. This film has no story, no elaboration, nothing. Just violence. And that I don't support from a filmmaking perspective, especially if the message is as shallow as it is here. Not surprised though with all the names here in the "cast" that this has already been seen by millions of people on Youtube. For some reason, Bell also uploaded it twice. More amateurism this way. Absolutely skip.