Sunday, July 21, 2013

'Only God Forgives': Savage saga, no contrition

So it's more than a little disappointing to report that Only God Forgives, the pair's second collaboration, is no Drive. In fact, it sometimes plays like a grotesque parody of that 2011 triumph, with Refn amping up the limb-slashing 

In Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn's Bangkok-set, ultra-violent thriller, Only God Forgives, she plays Mai, a singer in a karaoke bar who is entwined in the disreputable life of Gosling's Julian, who runs a Thai kick boxing gym as a front for an

So it's more than a little disappointing to report that Only God Forgives, the pair's second collaboration, is no Drive. In fact, it sometimes plays like a grotesque parody of that 2011 triumph, with Refn amping up the limb-slashing 

Refn seems to take his title seriously. Not even he will let the audience off the hook by dumbing down the more disturbing aspects of his movie.

Ryan Gosling's movie, Only God Forgives, is being torn apart by critics.

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'Only God Forgives': Savage saga, no contrition

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