Someone once said that there was nothing David Cronenberg likes more than bodily fluids and this atmospheric thriller is a good example of that.
The 'man without a past' story is a little heavy handed as is often the case in scripts taken from graphic novels but the direction is solid, apart from his wounds healing in about 3 days, and there's some really nice camera work.
Viggo Mortensen has a lot of on-screen experience and showed way back in Carlito's Way that he can do really well under good direction.
Ed Harris is great but we don't see enough of him and really the rest are just also-rans.
Over all it's good but it lacks the innovation of films like Scanners and Videodrome and it cries out for a prequel, which is not something a good story should really need.
The more I watch it the more I feel we're just reveling in some well handled on-screen violence but hey, the clue's in the title.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0399146/?ref_=nm_knf_t1
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