Only God Forgives

[biggins]

Saw this today using my Cameo Picturehouse vouchers that were due to expire soon. My friend and I were looking forward to it as we like Ryan Gosling and enjoyed Drive - but this is nothing like Drive.
Slow movements while weird music plays! A lot of very violent scenes and also scenes that leave you wondering if it was real or a dream. Not for me I'm afraid.

I don't like Marmite!

[aruif]

oh i forgot to review it!

well like many i was very much looking forward to this but left feeling a bit disappointed over all.

i HATED the karaoke bits and the over all feel was like a poor mans tarantino/lynch.

i did think that kristen scott stewart was brilliant though!

6/10

[ejwrank]

oh i forgot to review it!

well like many i was very much looking forward to this but left feeling a bit disappointed over all.

i HATED the karaoke bits and the over all feel was like a poor mans tarantino/lynch.

i did think that kristen scott stewart was brilliant though!

6/10

I think she is a Scott Thomas though I like the idea of a Scott Stewart!

[aruif]

lol yeah hahahahahah was thinking about kristen stewart clearly HAHAHA. idiot. thanks ej <3

[KAB]

Drive was enjoyable but far more flawed than its reputation suggests. This seems to have all of the flaws but none of the merits that Drive had...

[stuartboy]

Oh dearie dearie me.
27 - count them - walk outs from a p*ying screening?
I can understand why.
As a piece of art this is a masterpiece of cinematography, soundtrack and is visually stunning (not to mention realistic and gory), but as entertainment it is seriously flawed, let down badly by hammy acting (Gosling - move your face for gawd's sake it's called an expression!) and a very slow and confusing story that doesn't quite hang together let alone make sense. I think having the titles in ?Malaysian from the start was just pretentious. The scenes of karaoke singing served no purpose and were unnecessary. A lot of this film was just weird for weird's sake.

What with all the realism and stoamch-churning gore that abounded, what on earth did one character appear early on in the film looking like his shirt had been drenched in Ribena? For heaven's sake - we know what blood looks like and Ribena it doesn't.
And what was the surrender at the end about?

Hey - who spotted the postie out of Scottish soap Take The High Road? And didn't the mum remind you of Harris Ryland's mother from New Dallas!

5/10 - a marmalade film.

[raj101]

marmalade film?

whats marmalade film, precious?

[stuartboy]

well I don't like Marmite!