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Article: FILM REVIEW: 'Violence' more than just a title in Mortensen's new film
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- September 22, 2005
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Patrick Gavin
University Wire
09-22-2005
(The Diamondback) (U-WIRE) COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- In "A History of Violence," Viggo Mortensen plays the roadrunner and everybody else plays coyotes. Watching the near-NC-17 level fight scenes in all of their one-sided grisliness, you get the idea that if the bad guys painted a tunnel on the side of a mountain, Mortensen would just run right through it.
That's not to say the action is cartoonish. Rather the fight scenes are like orange juice: smooth, but with a sizable helping of pulp. Mortensen beats down goons with pitiless precision, breaking noses, snapping necks and shooting jaws off while the camera focuses in on some of the finest grotesqueries ...
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