In Millowbrook, Indiana, the mild Tom Stall owns a bar and has a calm life with his beloved wife Edie Stall, his teenager son Jack and his little daughter Sarah. His life turns upside-down when her kills two cold blood killers in his bar to protect his waitress, becoming a local hero and being showed in the front page of the news and on TV. The mobster Carl Fogarty comes to the town calling him Joey Cusack and telling that he was a former hit man. When Carl and his men threaten his family, Tom defends them, and violence is released in a chain reaction.

Hmm, detta ska vara en film av Cronenberg. Det känns den inte alls som. Den känns, “normal”. Cronenbergs filmer brukar alltid vara lite speciella. Personligen gillar jag eXistenZ, men har svårt för de andra av hans filmer jag sett. Denna filmen är inte speciell på något vis. Speciellt inte Cronenberg-speciell. Men det är en bra film. Riktigt gripande och bra berättad. Skådespelarna sköter sig riktigt bra. Hela filmen känns på något vis väldigt verklig.

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[tags]film, recensioner, a history of violence[/tags]