Unexpectedly HILARIOUS

Rating: 8/10 (11 August 2013)

I had heard many words used to describe this movie, such as "chilling" and "violent" so I honestly was not expecting to be cracking up half the time but I WAS! And days later, I'm still chuckling. I'm highly anti-spoiler so I won't say more on that front but Christian Bale was brilliant. The nuance in his performance blew me away. It so easily could have gone cheesy but he hit it on the head. Perfect. Of course, it is a violent, bloody movie so, not for the squeamish. But that stuff really takes a backseat to the character study and the social commentary. Additionally they really nailed the setting/costumes/hair/makeup/etc. I had to remind myself that this was not actually filmed in the 80s. Well done.