I enjoy good cinema, and I watched this film based on the many reviews claiming that it was an amazing directorial debut that offered excellence in filmmaking.
Having sat through the entire movie, I can't but wonder if the title was actually a satirical attempt at foreshadowing - and that the patient man full of fury is actually meant to be us, the moviegoers who sat through this entire film only to walk away disappointed.
This is a very clever piece of cinematic smoke and mirrors - a film that makes you feel like you've watched something clever and well crafted, but then when you stop and think about it for more than 2 minutes you realise that it actually wasn't that good.
The opening sequence was the best part of the entire film (thus the 3 stars) - it really is something to behold - and all the technical aspects of the film are good (acting, cinematography, etc.) but from the amazing opening sequence, the movie just descends into tropes, incomplete character development, a plot 'twist' that was stripped of all the impact it could have had and thus wasn't actually a twist because they revealed it much too early in the film (and then tried to have another bite at the cherry in the final act,) and a movie whose central themes remained woefully under explored.
The end result was a movie that left me angry, because there just seemed to be no real point at all of what unfolded on screen.
This could have been something amazing, but the character and story development is sacrificed for technically proficient shot selection and execution.
It just felt like there was no point to this movie as the major themes that were begging to be explored (the futility of revenge, violence begetting violence, the woman trapped in a destructive relationship, the broken criminal desperately seeking redemption) remain largely untouched or incomplete.
Having sat through the entire movie, I can't but wonder if the title was actually a satirical attempt at foreshadowing - and that the patient man full of fury is actually meant to be us, the moviegoers who sat through this entire film only to walk away disappointed.
This is a very clever piece of cinematic smoke and mirrors - a film that makes you feel like you've watched something clever and well crafted, but then when you stop and think about it for more than 2 minutes you realise that it actually wasn't that good.
The opening sequence was the best part of the entire film (thus the 3 stars) - it really is something to behold - and all the technical aspects of the film are good (acting, cinematography, etc.) but from the amazing opening sequence, the movie just descends into tropes, incomplete character development, a plot 'twist' that was stripped of all the impact it could have had and thus wasn't actually a twist because they revealed it much too early in the film (and then tried to have another bite at the cherry in the final act,) and a movie whose central themes remained woefully under explored.
The end result was a movie that left me angry, because there just seemed to be no real point at all of what unfolded on screen.
This could have been something amazing, but the character and story development is sacrificed for technically proficient shot selection and execution.
It just felt like there was no point to this movie as the major themes that were begging to be explored (the futility of revenge, violence begetting violence, the woman trapped in a destructive relationship, the broken criminal desperately seeking redemption) remain largely untouched or incomplete.