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A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE (2005)

"GET THE SHOTGUN, AMY! GET THE SHOTGUN!"

I had wanted to see this movie for a while now. A little while ago, I saw that it was going to be on TV, so I tried to stay up and watch it. I fell in and out of sleep throughout the movie. So I wanted to rent it, and I did.

I think everything about this movie is great, but I would have to say the acting is the best, and most memorable part about the film. I normally don't care for Viggo Mortensen, but I would have to say he did a great job in this movie. In one scene, he gets stabbed in the foot by a man. The later on in the movie, he has to do a running scene, and he definatly looks like he got stabbed in the foot a few days ago. I know that may sound petty, but sometimes it's the little things that make the difference. Like small plot holes, which this had none of. I also think that everyone else did a good job, including Ed Harris, as the main guy that stalks Viggo Mortensen and his family, William Hurt, who has a small role, but does a great job with it, and Maria Bello, who plays Viggo's wife. All do phenomenonally well.

The director of this movie would be the famous David Cronenberg, who has brought us movies like Crash and The Fly. He does a great job, as usual with his movies. You can tell that he took his time, and did not rush this movie, just so he could make money faster.

A great movie that I recommend highly to anyone.

42 Comments & Responses


September 1st, 2008 6:57am
thanks, lost girl!

sly, instead of watching it on TV, where they will cut out half of the movie, may I sugest that you rent it. also I dont know how much its on TV.
 
August 31st, 2008 7:41pm
Great movie, great review, crypt.
 
August 31st, 2008 7:21pm
Indeed it did, and you dont need to see the ending, but whatever.

BlizZzard
 
August 31st, 2008 9:17am
This movie had the most simplitic plot of any I've ever seen before. A guy in a small town confronted by drugrunners of his past that want to silence him. And his brother is the lead culprit. Definitely a violent film, but I too fell asleep while watching this, and missed the climax. I've yet to see the rest of it, and I suppose I will on TV.
 
August 30th, 2008 11:33pm
Bully, even better Preach, well usually Man. Unt'd are people from Manchester, usually, Irish people usually root for Irish teams, etcetera, etcetera, Honestly I don't know what I'm fucking talking about, I'm not a big football (or soccer, so there's no confusion) fan, but I did live in England for 10 years and I don't want to generalize but the four leaf clover threw me off, towards Irish, so sorry if I offended, just wondering.

BlizZzard
 
August 30th, 2008 10:05am
That is one confusing sentence Blizzard. Im scottish. What do you mean root for teams?
 
August 29th, 2008 5:19pm
well, bliz, i have to say that the wife did act rather... wierd. I mean, he said sorry, and what more does she want? She should focus on whats healthy for the 2 kids. and the sex in this movie was stupid. thet didnt need any of it, and if they did NEED it they didnt have to show so much of it! like you said, it wasnt romantic, it was stupid
 
August 29th, 2008 9:28am
Thanks, I do what I can, and not to offend but British or Irish, I would have guessed obviously Irish, but you never know, who likes what in the UK, and who's on here, you could be Welsh but root for Ireland teams, or American and root for something else, plus the manner in the way you write, but if memory serves me correctly, you don't route for another countries team if your not that race, usually.

BlizZzard
 
August 29th, 2008 9:04am
Spot on Blizzard.
 
August 29th, 2008 7:58am
Crypt, rethinking over that word, maybe the allure is more of an adult thing, but the Scorpio part takes to another level, but you have to be a Scorpio to know, and you'll find out when you get older, maybe, maybe not, it depends on you.

I also thought, the sex scene were, well, not as much as uncomfortable, as weird, unenthusiastic, unnecessary, and unaffectionate, in the terms of lacking intimacy and in the term of they seemed virginal, meaning that they are coming together for the first time, not as a fuckng married couple who has two kids, and has been married for more then a decade. It could have been more romantic in nature, implicate not show in partial full glory. I also don't get why people don't know how to control themselves, it seems no one has structure and self self-discipline.

Back to what I originally wrote, I still cant comprehend why the wife would act like that, he lied, and it was immense, but I cant really remember, but I think he tried to explain and she never lets him, and when if finally clears up some stuff, she become even more distant and mad, which makes me think if something like cause such a divide and havoc on their relationship, how did they survive, enough to have kids and have a working marriage, I also felt she didn't care to make the relationship work, forgive him, or even consider what he did was for the better, he try to change and for the better part he did, and after he killed those people he was completely changed, and there were no more obstacles, to cause a bigger rift in their relationship. So he killed people in the past, for his "family" and know he killed people for his family, that show a person making an effort, at a some what happy life, the writer made the wife exceptionally one dimensional, sub-par.

BlizZzard
 
August 29th, 2008 5:27am
No one fast forwards the sex scenes. Thats just crazy talk. I saw this in the cinema which made the sex a bit uncomfertable. I just thought I would enjoy this but it was a total anticlimax. A whole load of nothing. Hows it going anyway mate.
 
August 28th, 2008 8:42am
Thats surprising that you didnt like the movie. but you can always fast forward the sex ya know.
 
August 28th, 2008 6:41am
I didn't care much for this film. My friend said the novel was good. The sex scenes are embarrassing and the whole thing was a waste of time. I hated the corney dialog and the violence was a bit much.
 
August 28th, 2008 5:53am
uhhh... ok, I guess.
 
August 27th, 2008 10:22pm
Not Scorpios, just this one, I don't speak for other people, and like I said I can't, nor won't to explain it.

BlizZzard
 
August 27th, 2008 9:45pm
Thank you, Duke! Though I agree with BlizZzard, and would have to disagree with ya on the going back in the past thing.
 
August 27th, 2008 9:41pm
I liked that there wasn't any flashback or prequel scenes. Left Joeys brutality up to the imagination. You get to kind of come up with your own horrible past for him. Mine is especially brutal. Great review.
 
August 27th, 2008 9:29pm
scorpios like it?
 
August 27th, 2008 9:16pm
Its a Scorpio thing, can't explain it, but like I said I don't use it.

BlizZzard
 
August 27th, 2008 9:00pm
I dont care for the word much, while I think he is being one
 
August 27th, 2008 8:55pm
Come on, and I'm sure he dose, on another note I don't get why people don't like that word, I don't use it but I like the filthiness of that that word contrives, but I'm a scorpio.

BlizZzard
 
August 27th, 2008 8:52pm
unfortunatly i do. I have seen enough movies to know what that means. I am not that stupid

do you know what "fuck off" means?
 
August 27th, 2008 8:42pm
I wonder if he knows what cunt means lol
 
August 27th, 2008 8:28pm
Well, Shit happens, and now you know and knowing is half the battle.

BlizZzard
 
August 27th, 2008 8:25pm
oh I just read that lol yeah hes 14 he should ask his mom lol jk don't ask her lol
 
August 27th, 2008 8:24pm
You must be blind because I said forget it, but since you said so, i guess I am forced to answer your first question, and that answer would be "No, I did not like that part." I told you earlier I did not like sex in movies, and I think it is pointless and stupid, as that part was, and the part on the stairs as well. If you didnt want to say that, then dont next time, please. And no, not a "duh" to a 14 year old who unfortunaty knows a lot, but not that until now. so thanks for ruining my night and giving me nightmares.
 
August 27th, 2008 8:19pm
What did I say
 
August 27th, 2008 8:14pm
whats a 69 duh its where a guy is eating out a girl and she is sucking him I really didn't wanna say this lol
 
August 27th, 2008 7:54pm
But of Course.

BlizZzard
 
August 27th, 2008 7:45pm
HA! I knew it was sexual!

That sounds kinda wierd, but I really did think it was something of that nature.
 
August 27th, 2008 7:41pm
I'm just saying what would your mom think, but she let you watch in the first place so I guess, I don't want to sound like that person trying to be a parental figure, just thought, you should find out on your own, not told on a website, which in a different certain circumstance you would find out on a website, lol, but as I like to say "keep it in sheets". ; )

BlizZzard
 
August 27th, 2008 7:25pm
You are very welcome.
 
August 27th, 2008 7:13pm
oh, and i do agree on th part about showing who he killed, beforethe movie sarted, making it longer, and at he beginning, showing who he killed and stuff.

thanks Psycho
 
August 27th, 2008 7:11pm
well, blizZz, i have seen the movie, so i know what it is, i just didnt know what it was called. lol. so DK, forget about it. i dont wanna know
 
August 27th, 2008 6:53pm
Dk before you write what a 69 is, remember Cryptkeeper, at his age, shouldn't know what that is.

BlizZzard
 
August 27th, 2008 6:49pm
Great review. I thought it was great and good cast too.
 
August 27th, 2008 6:43pm
I agree with this review, but I feel this would have been better as a book, I liked it, but it just went in one path, and did a soprano's ending, which I get why they did it, to show that their marriage is broken, family broken, and its going take a lot to fix it, on a tangent if my wife did that I would have left her, and tried to get custody of the kids if they wanted to go with me, she is his wife, she suppose to support him, she may not have, like that he lied about his previous life and, that she didn't know him, but at least he tried to live a normal life and not evolve them into that life, she would have been madder about that, then what he did, the right thing, in mind it is. Back to what I was saying I felt there was something missing, maybe a small prequel could have been at the end so, like try to do, we wouldn't know he was that person, which I thought was the case and that he would become violent, because they threaten his family. Or they could have shot the movie in different parts, like end, middle, beginning, end, that would have worked better, and the twist could have been that he killed all the people, but his face is never seen, then it goes back and shows that he killed all those Mafioso, at the actually end of the movie, but it didn't so it is what it is.

BlizZzard
 
August 27th, 2008 6:39pm
great review

"Joey"
 
August 27th, 2008 6:35pm
uhmmm... i dont think it was rape, dude. but ya, gret show down between William Hurt and Viggo Mortensen. and what is a 69?
 
August 27th, 2008 6:31pm
a fuckin great movie how did you like that 69 lol and him raping her on the stairs lol and That show down was great
 
August 27th, 2008 5:38pm
Yes, you must see this, vamp. And I too hate it when I doze in and out of consciousness during a movie
 
August 27th, 2008 4:42pm
Great review Crypt! I hate when you doze in and out of consciousness during movies, don't you? Anyway, I've been meaning to see this, and I'm guessing I must! Great job, again!
 

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