I had a hard time with this movie because I knew I'd seen it somewhere else, just done a lot better. This is an action movie without the action sequences. This is 'The Long Kiss Goodnight'. A popcorn picture without the pretensions to greatness this one has. Cronenberg is turning into a out of touch old man who throws in snatches of tit and gore to amuse himself, and sets the villains up (the robbers in the first scene) to be just plain evil incarnate. Then has a sex scene on a stairwell because...why? He likes violence? She likes it too? The whole family is violent What? Why? Huh? Renny Harlin did it better. That's the first time in history anyone has ever said that about anything.
Review of A History of Violence
