Review of A History of Violence (2005) by Exking — 01 Apr 2014
A history of violence was the first movie ever that I realized that a one and a half hour movie can be painfully long.
I was completely shocked by the overall terrible performances, even from Viggo Mortensen and I was shocked again when I knew that William Hurt was nominated for an academy award for his terrible awkward performance, and what made it worst is the directing.
Yes the directing was terrible coming from the director of Eastern promises. from the first 5 minutes I realized that the movie was slow, and I was kinda hoping for it to be like a cool directorial thingy, but it's not, it kept going like this making the movie painful to watch.
I just seen Eastern promises and I really liked it, Viggo Mortensen character was dark and the story had depth but here, we have a shallow character that just playing awkward to the point that even the connection between family members were awkward and unreal, I mean come on, a teenage boy kiss his mother good morning every day seriously ?
And i'm not against nudity in films but the wife coming out of the bathroom completely naked was pointless and stupid, it was like "hey, we can do this and that" and the sex scene on the stairs was awkward, I genuinely felt that I was watching a movie by M. Night Shyamalan.
This review of A History of Violence (2005) was written by Exking on 01 Apr 2014.
A History of Violence has generally received very positive reviews.
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