An action movie with a deep plot and great photography+acting

Rating: 10/10 (12 January 2005)

This film uses very well features like flashbacks, plot twists and a surprising ending. The film makes you feel that it could be ended in at least 5-6 points yet it manages to end in such a way that leaves you satisfied no mean feet by itself as many movies weak spot is a lengthier ending than necessary or the opposite, and more movies fail to do successfully a series of turnarounds of the story near the end of the film without spoiling it. Notable also is the fact that although it is a violent story it has brief battle scenes. Another fact interesting to me is that the movie highlights what can be accomplished by highly sophisticated methods of torture like the ones employed in this movie to irrevocable change the personality of the subject even subconsciously. In an era of restrictions to the freedom of expression, invasion in privacy, and prisons working in law black holes like Guadanamo we must seriously think if war on terror is on the right track. Violence in revenge of violence never brought anything but more violence and despair.