graeme32

The reviews on here say it's a revenge thriller. I see it as a man who is wronged by an enemy that won't leave him alive. This pushes him to the extreme.

Revenge? No. Pushed to the limits to defend oneselve? Yes.

Other reviews say there was no ending. There was. Read what I wrote above, listen to Eamons speech at the end about a never ending cycle of violence down through the generations, and the ending is clear.

This is a good film, and an evening well spent watching it.

This is definitely a film to watch by yourself. Don't even consider taking someone on a date to watch it unless you already know them really well. Don't watch it with friends unless you don't mind sitting with them in silence for 90 minutes at a time.

This film is as far from light entertainment as its possible to get. The camera technique and story telling (in reverse order) leave you disorientated due to the lack of a normal narrative flow. Individual scenes contain sequences of violent, shocking, disturbing, and in some cases distressing events that appear to be totally unprovoked, random, and which continue long after you would expect or want them to stop. This is one of the few films that have made me physically flinch.

Only as the film nears its end (the beginning of the story) do things start to make sense and fall into place.

What did I take from this film? That the acts of evil people are matched by the acts of normal people put in impossible situations and transformed into people that they themselves would not recognise; That sometimes there are no happy endings, although there are happy "starts". This is a film that will leave you silent and contemplatative after watching it. I thoroughly recommend watching it - but watch it when you are in the right mood, rather than because you had planned to watch it a certain time