Critics that rate it highly haven't seen movies of 70's, 80's

Rating: 1/10 (13 November 2011)

There was nothing original in this movie, it's all been done before. Whoever rates this movie highly doesn't have much experience of 70/80's movies that have long 'meaningful' glances and little dialog. Wife and I went expecting something with a bit of action, we nearly walked out. If you take out the long pauses and only include scenes of relevance then it'd be a 1/2 hour TV movie. Ryan Goslings character just comes across as an expressionless dummy who can't think of a thing to say. Yes, it's filmed well, but that doesn't make it a great movie. The violence was gratuitous - if the director wanted to keep with the 'hidden meanings' of the non-vocal scenes then he should have only hinted at the violence. Go see 1971's Vanishing Point.