Unnecessary graphic violence

Rating: 4/10 (27 January 2007)

I was disappointed with El Laberinto del Fauno. I was expecting a different film from all of the reviews I had read, including the many Oscar nominations.
I actually left about an hour into the film because I was so disgusted by the unnecessary violence, and I just couldn't handle the graphic murders. A man being beaten in the face with a bottle until he was dead is not something that any human needs to see. In Canada it was rated as 14A, and should have been rated R.
This film's trailers and reviews exposed it as a whimsical adult fairy tale, although it contained more death than a James Bond movie.
Though I though the movie was Nightmare worthy, Ivana Baquero was very believable and did a fantastic job in playing Ofelia.