A very good movie

I already saw this movie but since it was a while back, I thought I might as well check it out again. First of all, this movie marked the 1st collaboration between David Cronenberg and Viggo Mortensen. Apparently, they really enjoyed working together, the audience certainly did appreciate the end-results, and they recently made their 4th movie together, 'Crimes of the Future', which I should be able to watch hopefully next week. Coming back on our main feature, first of all, even though the story was intriguing enough, I enjoyed above all the directing and the acting. Indeed, back in the 80's, Cronenberg started his career with some rather sleezy horror movies which became eventually cult-classics but, decades later, he has became a much more subtle director and delivered here a really tensed thriller. Obviously, Mortensen delivered as well a very good performance in the sense that you could believe that this gentle man used to be a terrifying gangster but we shouldn't forget Ed Harris and William Hurt, two of the best and most underrated supporting actors at work nowadays. They were both terrific and their confrontation with Mortensen was pretty impressive. It's interesting that I experienced the ending completely differently the second time around. Indeed, the first time I watched this movie, I thought that, after all what happened, they tried to make us believe that he got back to his life with his nice little wife as if nothing just happened. However, the second time around, I thought it was more ambiguous after all, as we don't know at all if it will work out for them since it will never be the same between them anymore. Anyway, to conclude, it is a very well made and entertaining thriller and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you are interested in David Cronenberg's work.

8/10