A Most Violent Year Reviews

Not to be confused with ‘A Most Wanted Man’ which was released the very same year, this movie was the 3rd directing effort delivered by J.C. Chandor and since I really liked ‘All Is Lost’ and even loved ‘Margin Call’, I was really eager to check it out. Well, eventually, even though I did like the damned thing, I’m afraid it was still his least convincing movie so far. Even so, it was actually not bad at all though, the directing was solid with a nice realistic and gritty approach and the actors involved delivered some decent performances, especially Oscar Isaacs and Jessica Chastain. Unfortunately, I can’t say that the story was really mind-blowing though. That’s the tricky thing with such a title as you might expect a lot of action or some kind of badass gangster feature but I’m afraid it was rather misleading since there was not so much violence after all. It didn’t really help that they were involved in some rather dull business. Furthermore, the main character was right that it was a bad plan to give some guns to his employees but I was rather surprised that he didn’t seek any other alternative at all like, for example, tailing his trucks. Anyway, even if the whole thing turned out to be slightly disappointing, it was still a decent watch and I think it is worth a look, especially if you like the genre.