A History of Violence

David Cronenberg's A History of Violence is probably one of the worst movies I've seen the past 5 years. Don't worry, I'm not going to give away anything about the movie, but it's not because I don't want to--there's NOTHING to give away. This movie is horrible!

Okay, okay, I'm being too hard. The movie almost has a great plot, and the first hour of the movie--although terribly weak in many areas--plays up the plot's strong points. I'd be lying if I said the movie started to suck after that first hour... that's because it started sucking about 10 minutes into it. The weirdest thing is that Rotten Tomatoes gave it a 90% rating, which is the whole reason we went to watch it.

Pros: a strange, if awkward tone about the movie. We always felt like something bad was going to happen, which was probably the most successful thing to come out of this movie.

Cons: horrible acting by 95% of the cast, a plot that goes nowhere and leaves everything unresolved, gruesome bloody close-ups that add nothing to the movie, two pointless and gratuitous sex scenes that each last about three minutes too long, William Hurt, seeing Viggo's somehow flabby asscheeks, and a screenplay written by an eight-year-old.

E-squared rating: I wish we'd spent our money doing anything else.