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This starts well, the casual violence of the criminals on the run, as demonstrated by the killing of the chambermaid in the motel and a little girl. He makes the family at the centre of the movie as sickenly apple pie and the Waltons like as possible. The best example being the dad (Viggo Mortensen), mum (Maria Bello) and older brother all comforting the yougest child ( who happens incidentally to be the worst child actor I've seen in a long time) when she has a nightmare. The good family man and close nit small town are all a good setup, one would think for the destruction and violence that is to follow. From when Tom Stall/Joey Cusack kills the criminals on the run, I think the film begins to fall. A temporary reprive is offered by Carl Fogarty (Ed Harris, who is the best thing in the movie), but he is killed too early on. I think the ordinary guy trained killer in the past is done better by the Bourne identity (despite of Matt Damon). It does have some good moments in the second half of the film, but they are few and far between. The duality of the sex sence on the stairs after the wife discovers he is the killer Joey Cusack and covers for him when the local police start to ask difficult questions is one such scene, Is she f**king her husband Tom Stall, or almost being raped by the killer Joey Cusack?, it's a brilliant echo of an earlier role playing sex scene in which the wife dresses as a cheerleader. In that instance Tom Stall makes love and goes down on his wife in the later scene as Joey Cusack he pins her to the wall and f**ks her. Perhaps the film is attempting to show it is impossible to insulate oneself from violence no matter what we try and in some cases it is necessary as when the son confronts the school bully and leaves him in hospital or in defence of your family and friends, or even better more passionate sex. I did detect an odd sense of outsiders threatening "our way of life", and the "logic" of having a loaded shotgun at home which has obvious resonance. This is not vintage Cronenberg.

Newstyle...i take it you didn't like it?

Well i enjoyed itto an extent.....i did not think the sex scenes were necessary, but hey, i guess you can't have it all.

I thoughtViggo Mortensen was brilliant as always, but the rest of the cast were a bit too dull for my liking....particularly the daughter and Maria Belo.

I think its rather people's expectations of the film being this BIG Hollywood blockbuster due to the tittle thats makingit seem such a turkey....but it WASN'T supposed to be big....its one of those sleepy little crime dramas that should not have such an expectations put on it. Perhaps its Cronenberg's name as director that got people too excited for no reason.

Overall i enjoyed.....but my mates who went to watch it hated it and wished they had watched Four Brothers:?(i can't remember the tittle) As for me i'd rather be locked in hell with this film rather than that John Singleton film.

i am just about to watch this film....after reading the first few sentences of what i thought was a general review, i stopped suddenly when i realised you were actually giving away parts of the film. what wrong with you? never heard of ' spoiler alert'? you seenthefilm ?good. most other people havent.

please put some kind of warning at the beginning of your post please, to stop the ruination of some other poor b*stards entertainment like ya almost did me....

Yep, this film is a disappointment. It felt more like early David Lynch than Cronenburg, with the exagerated apple pie american dream family and the young Laura Dern lookalike daughter.

Strange to say it but the close-ups of people with their faces hanging off, shown after, not during the violence, seemed gratuitous as did some of the sex and nudity.

Agree that Fogarty was great, but the rest of the gangsters seemed like gay rent a thug, with the final shoot out a comic farce.

Conclusion: promising idea very poorly executed - and that's from a David Cronenburg fan.

jesus man. you couldnt have made that spoiler alert bigger?

anyhow, at least people will know now. thanks.

I thought it wasawful. Specious, contrived, corny, overly-schematic. I don't really think that this piece of silly schlock is really worth my taking the time to write about it . The idea that violence produces a cycle of violence is so contrived. At one stage, the wife says, 'I can't believe this is happening.' I agreed. Unless the whole film was some elaborate pastiche of the genre. I nearly threw up and the simplistic final symbolism with the macho hero

thanks to a torrent

was that it??

someone please tell me what the hype was about, cos i must have missed it. everything from this film screamed ' average', and while i cant just pin it down b likening it to one film, it seemed like ive already seen the story about 100 times. these reviewers must really be easily pleased nowadays to be handing out the 5/5 stars like sweets for this depressing dross.

I just saw it and I thought this movie was unintentionally funny as hell! Particularly the buffoonish eediatRichie themob boss....."How do you fcuk that up?!" and the pricelesslook on his face when he got locked outside his yard and realised he didn't havethe keys....LMAOOOO!

It wasn't the best film I've seen but it was pretty ok. I just found it funny more than anything.