Extremely Overrated.

A history of violence is the movie where i learned that one and a half hour movie can be painfully long, i was so pumped and existed to see it, because i just watched 'Eastern Promises' and i thought it was very good, and this movie had the same director and the same Viggo Mortensen, but they weren't actually the same, the movie was very, very slow, and i hoped that it would be at least stylist while slow, not slow for the sake of being slow, but i was wrong, it kept going like this making the movie impossible to watch.

With all this critical acclaim and the recommendations, i hoped to see one good quality about this movie, but i couldn't, the performances were absolutely terrible, the characters were unexplained, the story was weak, and what kinda name is Joey? when he was a bad-ass his name was Joey? seriously? isn't the name should be representing the character, even the family relationship wasn't real, it was really awkward, why would a teenage boy kiss his mother and say goodbye everyday? is this a 'perfect family', and it just didn't work, Viggo Mortensen performance wasn't deep enough so i can absorb the fact that he used to be a killer and now he retired and became a caring family man, i loved him in 'Eastern Promises', he looked criminal and each line he delivered was filled with so much darkness making the character very interesting, but here, his performance was very shallow and out of place.

Even more awkward was the sex scene on the stairs, was that like releasing the tension kinda thing? because it just made me feel more and more awkward, and i'm not against nudity in films, but nudity should be implied for a reason, but that's not the case with this movie, giving the fact that the wife (Maria Bello) came out of the bathroom fully naked and went to bed, i was literally like WTF was that, why the director was trying to force nudity in this movie? was that his way in outlining the R rating?

The story wasn't good, you can see it coming from a mile away, which not always a bad case but combined with such atmosphere, it looked bad, and what's worse was William Hurt performance, the character was so cliche, the only way that it can be more cliche if the guy had a writing on his forehead saying 'i'm this movie's bad guy', even worse that he was nominated for an academy award for his role.

Overall, it was bad, slow, and not interesting nor entertaining at all, which leads the final conclusion ------ extremely overrated.

5/10