Review of Brimstone (2016) by Serge L — 13 Dec 2017

Evil is there in the church, in the reverend. Great acting and no hiding violence and sex much, the story is very well casted. Great acting. Great images. Great story line, epic, spanning some decades. The reverend is a psychopath akin of the Terminator 2 model liquid metal. He kills easily and efficiently but is hard to kill. His daughter goes to great length to escape. The film is a good representation of psychopathy, to which the reverend is a typical extreme example. He can't know love, only abuse. His life is hell no matter what. The Reverend: People think it's the flames that make Hell unbearable. It's not. It is the absence of love.

This film is haunting and only a few bits are pushed too much to the point of ridicule. The gun to shoot pigs is reported as goof. The wife hanging in the church is over the top and reminiscent of Clockwork Orange. The grandfather killing is too easy and noiseless to be believed.