An average movie

2 years after the massive cult-classic ‘Drive’, Nicolas Winding Refn and Ryan Gosling came back with this new project and, of course, the expectations were pretty high. Eventually, this new movie was really poorly received but I still wanted to check it out. To be honest, I was at first really impressed by the damned thing. Indeed, I thought it was visually really amazing, even more than ‘Drive’. Unfortunately, pretty soon, it turned out that the story was actually really tedious. Apparently, it seemed that they went for some rather mystical vibe but it seriously backfired. Indeed, it was sometimes even rather pathetic (for example, it was rather ridiculous to see each time the policeman popping up his little sword out of nowhere). Concerning Ryan Golsing, he is a fine actor but I’m slowly getting enough of his gimmick of always playing the same kind of silent emotionless pretty boy. Same thing for Kristin Scott Thomas, she gave as usual a very strong performance but her character was so caricatural, so poorly developed, it was rather cringe-inducing to behold.  It’s too bad because even though this kind of old tale of revenge has been done to death, it still had some potential but they want for something so sluggish and pretentiously artistic, it barely worked for me. Anyway, to conclude, fortunately, it looked really amazing so I still think it is worth a look but this movie was definitely a misfire for all the people involved.