Great film with a few issues

Rating: 7/10 (21 February 2014)

Pretty solid film, although I think this film is pretty overrated. Two things really pulled me out of this film. The first was the sound. For what ever reason, in parts of the film, they put all the dialog and sound effects on the right channel and the music on the left. It creates a very strange effect. When there is a character on the right side of the screen, and you hear their voice on the left, it pulls you out. This is a huge issue if you watch the movie with head phones (Like I did). I actually switched the film to mono part way through so I wouldn't be distracted by it. It might seem like a minor thing, but truthfully, this ticked me off. The second thing that really pulled me out of the film was the gore. It seemed so out of place. I mean, I guess the amount of gore that comes out a persons head when they get shot by a shotgun would be a lot, and maybe it was a realistic amount, I don't know. But it seemed over the top. Not like a Kill Bill over the top where it's to the point where it's funny, but instead it was out of no where and pulled me away. But it should be noted that this isn't the case every time something violent happens. At the end of the film, a characters arm gets cut open and the amount of blood wasn't as over the top as other moments and as a result, didn't distance me from the film. Those are my biggest complaints. All in all, it was a real good movie. But if those two things would have been corrected, it would have been much better in my opinion.