Review of Bleeder (1999) by Anders A — 16 Jan 2016

There are two reasons I watched this movie. First being Mads Mikkelsen (Hannibal, The Hunt) and the second being Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive, Bronson). I'm very glad I watched it. It's a refreshment after spending the whole day yesterday catching up on American Horror Story Hotel.

Anyways... Bleeder is a movie about a couple of men and women leading ordinary, boring lives with nothing particularly interesting happening to them. The movie portrays their lives very routine-like and with nothing special happening until about half way through the movie when Leo's wife gets pregnant and Leo gets stressed and angry with her and their life, which leads to some quite disturbing scenes.

Without spoiling anything, I will say that the movie, at first, didn't seem all that interesting, it was almost boring, but as it went on it started to get more and more intense and equally disturbing.

The ending is shocking, to say the least. The acting was fantastic and the characters are all well developed and there isn't a single flaw among the actors or their characters. The direction is great and the soundtrack is haunting! All in all, this is a damn good drama with some quite shocking plot points that tends to be a bit boring at first, but the second half will make it all worthwhile! I'd recommend this movie to Nicolas Winding Refn fans as the previous movies I've watched by him are mostly similar in terms of story telling and direction.

So, if you're not into slow burning and gripping movies, move on.