Brilliant!

Rating: 10/10 (11 May 2014)

American History X is in my top five all time mind blowing films. The performance alone from Edward Norton was phenomenal, the guy takes you on an emotional roller-coaster like you would not believe until you have seen it for yourself. There are good actors who will portray a character well enough for the audience to understand a role but to make the viewers really get the uncensored underlying emotions and thoughts of the character is a talent to be well respected. This film was able to make me feel disgusted with society and be completely disappointed in humanity, yet it gave me hope all in one fell swoop. Understanding a neo-nazism skinheads lifestyle is not an easy task and this film certainly doesn't make it any easier but it is worth a watch if you can stomach the hard hitting punches of racism and violence.