A History of Violence (2005) Movie Review

A History of Violence (2005) Review


The second movie with Maria Bello in my reviews for today is a true testament on what violence really means and it's based on a graphic novel. I did not know that myself but is true. The way it was directed by David Cronenberg is amazing. The style is dark, gritty, violent and raises a lot of thought provoking questions about the nature of violence. The performances are off the charts from all of the cast but the stand out is, of course, Viggo Mortensen, fresh out of "Lord of the Rings" and "Hidalgo", roles that are far different than this one. The movie is an intense and rough crime thriller, filled with amazing action scenes and incredible score by Howard Shore, who also did the score for "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy. Nice right? The movie was better than nice, it was superb. Top notch job! The only thing that bothered me was that I did not find out what Tom/Joey has been doing: he was a secret agent? working for the mob? sleeper agent? special forces? assassin? I don't know and, frankly, this is nitpicking. 9.2/10

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