Review of Only God Forgives (2013) by Python2000 — 15 Dec 2013

Definitely an achievement and skillfully executed, Only God Forgives is intelligent but much less enjoyable than brainless action movies like The Wolverine and World War Z.

I think this because director Nicolas Winding Refn concentrates more on the set design and lighting than the plot and character development. "Like watching a lava lamp for 90 minutes" said one listener too Mark Kermode's review show, and he's very right. I can't deny that it's visually striking and totally unique, but neither can I deny that most of the time I had no idea what was going on. Maybe if they included more than 40 lines of dialogue in the movie then I might have been able too make an educated guess on what the hell Ryan Gosling was doing. But it's Nicolas Winding Refn's trademark too be all arty and unique when directing movies, so 40 lines of dialogue it is. Which is a shame because the premise has the potential too be very interesting .

Only God Forgives deserves too be regarded as a visual delight and masterfully designed, but I would not recommend it due to it being very hard too follow and overly abstract.