The other movie of the weekend was Viggo Mortensen’s “A History of Violence”. To be honest, I don’t know how I feel about this movie. On one hand it was very graphic, but yet the sex/violence was not the bulk of this movie. This is the story of Tom Stall, a quiet family man in Indiana who owns the town diner. One night two men stage a robbery in the diner, which ends in Tom’s killing of both men. Overnight he becomes a bit of a local celebrity, but he just wants to be left alone with his family.
Then two new men come into town – men who think he’s Joey Cusack, a man linked to the Philadelphia mob. Tom insists he’s not who they think he is, but the men persist, threatening his family and forcing Tom to make a decision about how far he’ll go to protect them.
As I said, the movie itself is NOT very violent – there were maybe or six scenes total of outright fighting/violence, but they were VERY violent and jarring. And that’s the filmmaker’s intent (David Cronenberg directed). But I can’t put my finger on why I didn’t like it as much as the critics raved about it.
2 1/5 cups of diner coffee out of five.
2 1/5 diner coffee? I’d think that would suit bourbon more than coffee, but whatever…
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I watched the same over the weekend….new Netflix member right here (yea for me:cheer:). Weak plot and gratuitous sex – how about those for reasons not to love the film? And I love Viggo, but that was a sleepy performance.