Like film factories all over the world, Hollywood has been experiencing a shortage of scripts in recent years. Remakes and remakes are emerging one after another. Even the plots of new films have only a few outstanding works. This is especially true for films that describe criminal and violent gangsters. Since the Godfather After the glorious past, the movies that try to show this family-style crime model seem to have entered a stereotype. In this movie, I even heard the hoarse and hoarse voice of the head of the gangster family. The elegant voice seems to be the same as the family-style gangsters from Italy, living an aristocratic life, with a strict hierarchy, and traditional social and human concepts.
The plot is also a painless development. It is always a small incident that causes a big conspiracy. There is bound to be justice and evil. , leaving a finale that could make a sequel.
Like Cronenberg's other films, violence is shown in the most primitive ways of human beings, cold weapon fights, muscle strength, all kinds of bloodshed, blood from cutting the throat with a sharp blade, blood from piercing the skin with a dagger, The blood flowing from under the skirt of the pregnant woman, in the most brilliant fight in the whole film, which takes the bathroom as the scene, Vig Montensen is naked against two knife-wielding assassins. The neat moves, only the most primitive power fighting of the human body, every time the knife stabs into the body of the protagonist, I can feel the hissing sound of the metal inserting into the body, and I even feel the kind of body when I hold my breath. Pain, heart hanging in the air.
The film lasts for an hour and a half, and most of the time is spent on inferior model classics (called "homages" in other words), boring nonsense, so-called character characteristics, and obscure conspiracy. Several murders gave 50-year-old Vig Montansen an amazing performance, just like seeing Aragorn in "The Lord of the Rings". Vig Montansen was born with the characteristics of a mysterious poet, cold and masculine. The appearance makes for an evocative killer.
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