Film Review – Only God Forgives

After scoring an unlikely success with 2011’s “Drive,” director Nicolas
Winding Refn and actor Ryan Gosling delve even deeper into the darkness
of cinema with “Only God Forgives,” an eye-crossingly violent mood piece
on the futility of revenge. Considering the relative mass appeal of
their previous work, “Only God Forgives” is decidedly specialized
filmmaking for adventurous audiences blessed with paint-drying patience.
It’s monumentally rough stuff with a glacial pace, though its surreal
execution grows quite interesting the longer Refn sticks to the unknown
and the absurd, making the effort more performance art in design than
aggressively genre-minded.
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