A History of Violence (2005)

You just can't escape the violence can you? It justifies the "violence" in it's name more than enough! Shows that Cronenberg can do excellent comic book adaptations as well as creepy sci-fi.

A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE is a phenomenal film. It's a groundbreaking, mindblowing, entertaining action film which has been made so well that it's hard not to like it, especially being a fan of the genre.It's unlike usual action films. The treatment itself says it. All the action scenes are brilliantly executed. The film's tone keeps changing from dramatic to thrilling from time to time. I just can't sum up how artistic this film is. Viggo Mortensen is one of the best things about the film. His performance is energetic, and he shows a lot of excellence throughout the entire film. All other actors too deliver fine performances.Technically too, the film's quite good. I am really impressed with the director's ability to build up the required tension throughout the film within a perfect duration.If you want to see an action film with a lot of depth in the plot, then A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE is really worth a watch. There are a lot of sequences which make you breathless, while it's the climax which makes you even more breathless.

This movie is hard to watch not because of the graphic violence on screen but because of the consequences of the violence, it is a reflection of our real history of violence (wars, terrorism, murder etc.) and the unstoppable nature of violence, once violence starts it affects all of us and it spreads and makes all of us become animalistic. The two flaws i have with this movie are the child acting and the overly cheesy first half hour that took me out of the movie but other than that the movie is harsh and real and it unexpectedly got under my skin, simply great.

Really can't understand why this movie has so many good reviews. Probably some kind of confirmation bias due to its director, because, well, the movie is TERRIBLE bad.Bad acting, bad plot, bad violence scenes, bad sex scenes, damn, the whole movie just doesn't work out. It has a promising beginning, but after the first half hour it justs become a really awful movie that tries at all costs to be some kind of 2000's masterpiece, it just pushes it too hard, everything is made in the intention of "shocking" you, and while it may actually work for some people, it does not for someone who is used to movies that REALLY set boundaries in being shocking like the ol'good exploitation movies.