Love it or hate it, this film is technically astonishing and whatever it's trying to do, it's doing it very well. It's almost like they've trapped the true essence of French Extremism, set it on fire, and followed it with a steady cam.

The camera work in this is surreal and its movements, along with the actors' choreography, are surprisingly well coordinated for a "write-as-we-go" film.

Climax will make you feel a lot of things and I don't think you're going to like how most of those things feel, but that's exactly what makes Climax a very well executed horrifying experience.

Leave it to Gaspar Noe for always illuminating the darker, seedier, ugly side of human life. Pushing film boundaries like Marian Dora, Jorg Buttgerheit, Yorgos Lanthimos, Alejandro Jodorowsky, and others, he manages to sculpt movies Hollywood would never touch with a ten foot pole. "Climax", one of his tamer offerings, is still far from Hollywood, or Bollywood, fare, but it can get under some people's skins if they're unprepared for the weirdness. I'd give this film a higher rating but, in the end, it was really a flick full of pretentious pap that answers this question: What would happen if you give a roomful of stupid, non-thinking, non-intellectual young people a spiked drink that loosened all their inhibitions? Not recommended to anyone with half a brain.

Climax would be great if Gaspard Noé had put some more work on it. He filmed it very quickly and letting too much freedom to the "actors" (who are just dancers and in general really bad actors). The movie has a really nightmare ambience and visual thanks to the creepy dancers. But, with the work that Gaspard is capable and better editing, it would be a cult movie! In this state, it feels more that he tried to put almost all societies taboos in a failed recipe just to schock the viewer. At least, the shocking part worked really well.