Good concept, poorly executed.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Below Her Mouth isn't the best movie ever written, it's not original or well-thought out, but it has a lot of good points. Firstly, though neither of the main actresses Natalie Krill (Jasmine) and Erika Linder (Dallas) are amazingly talented, their chemistry is fantastic. Although the relationship between the characters develops at an incredibly fast pace, the electric chemistry between Natalie and Erika sells it and makes it believable. The sex scenes were a lot more explicit than I expected (I didn't watch the trailer or know anything about the movie before watching, so went in blind and was a little surprised) but incredibly erotic and sensual. For those reviewers saying the sex scenes were awkward or boring, they must have been watching something different to me. I could feel the attraction and connection between the two characters through the sex scenes. It definitely wasn't porn in the traditional sense because none of it felt mechanical, it was as though I was genuinely watching two people having raw, intimate and vulnerable sex. The movie is guilty of playing into some over-used stereotypes by writing Dallas as the butch, mean and dominant lesbian and Jasmine the meek, confused femme lesbian that cheats on her fiance. Generally, there also wasn't much development for the characters or as much insight into them as people as there could've been. However, I do think the romance between the two women made sense. You could feel the loneliness of Dallas and Jasmine at the beginning and that there was something missing in their lives. They had a magnetic pull and in each other found that spark that had been missing. Dallas found someone she wanted to open up to and be vulnerable with and Dallas allowed Jasmine to finally feel all the emotions she'd been suppressing since she was a child and release all that pent up tension and unhappiness that came from denying her sexuality for so long. Admittedly, there wasn't much plot and the sex and romance is really all there is, but if people dig a little deeper with this move there are actually some very important messages contained within it. It shows how difficult it can be to be who we truly are and be honest with ourselves about what/who we want, and that sometimes it's not always easy to label ourselves one way or another. Dallas said she knew she was attracted to women from a young age, it was a simple choice for her, but Jasmine didn't have that same clarity. In that respect, it shows some of the struggles people can come up against in discovering who they are or the inner turmoil people can go through when they're confused about their sexuality. Overall, Below Her Mouth isn't a great movie, but it's not terrible either. It would have benefited from more character development and plot and perhaps a little less sex, but was still a reasonably engaging movie.

Okay so this film upholds structures that perpetuate rape-culture and misogyny, the "lesbian predator" and "chronic bisexual cheater" tropes are incredibly problematic and furthermore have been worn out since 2004, the overall lack of depth to the characters and dialogue topped off with the fact that nothing, and I mean NOTHING of actual genuine interest happens during the 94 minutes of this just sums up this really lousy film

Which one is A. Mullen? Dallas really isn't as butch as she appears. Lack of focus. Development of characters is poor and without plot lines. The dream of how the relationship evolves is old. Ugh, the dialogue is terrible. Too many typical cliches coming from a straight gal that has no experience. Soundtrack is stopped abruptly during scenes changes. Scenes too short and do not form any credible lesbian ideologies within genre. This is simply soft porn to fill a void in the day, allowing folks to get off. Oh well. Just another "LookAtMe" vehicle with nothing to say. Really? A wince from butch as she starts to penetrate with the strap-on? Done with this...39 minutes in. I don't understand what Mullen is trying to put across.

As a straight woman I've wondered what the appeal is in a woman who acts like a man? The answer would seem to be that hopefully the more positive qualities that women often have, e.g., sensitivity, awareness of another's feelings, willingness to talk and discuss, would still be there despite the more masculine appearance and personality. In this film, I questioned what was it that attracted Jasmine to Dallas and the answer kept being that Dallas treated her like a princess. Jasmine appeared to "love" Dallas because of Dallas's seeming worship of her. That, and perhaps the greater knowledge of how to treat a woman sexually that lesbians tend to have. So ultimately this was a film about two self-centered characters getting off on each other's ability to feed their respective egos. Another question was again in Dallas's character, she was all about sexually pleasing whatever woman she was with, yet they didn't do the same for her. So naturally, she seemed doomed to wind up feeling unhappy, deprived and somewhat like a martyr. We did see her going down on Jasmine but not the reverse, which also implied the question of whether Jasmine was even into Dallas's body? Ultimately, I have to agree with the other reviewers who said this film was short on plot and big on soft-core eroticism. A couple of questions were raised but there's not enough depth for them to be answered.