Yikes! Violence almost overwhelms picture

Rating: 7/10 (29 March 1999)

After reading all of these reviews and seeing that it was rated as the ninth best movie EVER, I expected an awesome movie. What I got instead is a very violent (so violent, my wife quit watching after 45 minutes) movie which is good, but not great.
It's true that there is good acting, and also true that it is hard to guess the answers ahead of time. I did, but only a few minutes ahead of the movie. Once the violence stopped, I enjoyed the rest of the movie more. So I'm a wimp. Sue me. I think the violence was overdone and detracted from what might have been a more interesting plot + acting. I can see how people would be put off by the plot complexity, but I enjoyed it. It was nice to be able to rewind and look again.