Now, I enjoy a good, shooter, bloody action movie. This however, shouldn't have been that movie. Now, I am not saying that people shouldn't die, but really? *beep* buckets of blood, that scene in the motel with the women's head exploding? It just seemed out of place and immature.
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Nope. These were violent brutal people and the very real depiction of action and consequence fitted the film. I don't enjoy watching violence/cruelty/torture in films for it's own sake and there are several films I've turned off or refused to watch because of it. But in this film it's honestly part of the story and as such acceptable.
shareI think that's the whole point, in a way.it's good that they showed a lot of violence.
shareIt wasn't needlessly violent.
It was as violent as it needed to be. It shows violence realistically, to show it in any other way would diminish the films realism whilst also diminishing the films characterisation.
The confrontation at the motel needs to look the way it does. It invokes a sense of real danger whilst showing us the hired killers complete brutality. The elevator scene is there to show us that the 'driver' clearly has a troubled past, as clearly it isn't his first confrontation like this. It also shows his mind set in regards to protecting the people he cares about.
The bar scene is to show us how these guys have no conscience at all, and is intended to show us through action these peoples real intentions, which up until now is only hinted at through their dialogue.
The handshake scene is there to get a shock emotional response due to the character involved, the graphic and sudden nature, and the way in which the killing is conducted.
Personally I think the people who complain about the violence are pansies, to put it bluntly. To honey coat films like this would be detrimental to the raw power they can wield, and only harm the strength of the characters and message they are trying to portray. It'd be like Taxi-Driver without the gunfight, a history of violence without the violence, or Saving Private Ryan without everything in it. People don't realise that these films would simply not hit the same mark without the realistic violence portrayed in them.
I totally agree.
Moreover, I think the elevator scene was intended to show us his darker side, and since that moment, you know it will be very unlikely for him to have a "normal life" with Irene and her son.
In fact, I think it´s a kind of "point of no return" when you see Irene totally terrified out of the elevator, and even though at the end she is knocking his door, he moved on since he knew deep inside of him that things would never be the same.
Sometimes violence in movies is necessary to show the type of person the character is. The Driver is a man of few words who obviously has had a dark past. He is a violent man especially when protecting people he cares for
shareThe movie is really gory because of the place where he is coming from it's trying to be realistic it's not one of those action movies we called this has really deep story telling in it.
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no, because if a woman's head was shot from something like a 5-10 foot away distance with a shotgun that is exactly what it would look like
also other parts, where the Driver is especially violent it was deliberate to display how unhinged his personality is
If i go crazy will you still call me Superman?
This movie contains many things that don't contribute directly to the story but rather to the style. Like the shots of the city from above, naked motionless chicks, many scenes of driving, many shots of the Driver's almost unflinching face, and some of the bloodsplatter. Thinking that only the latter was needless wouldn't be fair, it's an integral part of this movie's world just like the obviously fake red blood was an integral part of the giallos.
Although that's debatable too, I think that the violence not only completed the world behind the fourth screen, but it also underlined several less desirable features of our otherwise gentle driver. The man was not a gentleman, but a gentle killer.
Necessity and superfluousness are extremely debatable notions.
there's a highway that is curling up like smoke above her shoulder
Too much violence - yes.
share"the first two reviewers here have deliberately lied about the quality of this film."
YOU are the liar.
Well I changed my review, as it is possible but unlikely that the fist two reviewers were not connected. It really should have kept the comedy vibe going from the fully camp Chinese guy scene near the start, a scene which I enjoyed as a B movie send up.