Very weird reaction to STELLAR movie.

SUCH a great movie but very subtle in its delivery. It seems like people are way too used to having everything that happens spelled out for them. "He didn't SAY he was making an illegal choice, so he wasn't!" etc.

The amount of people that don't understand AT ALL what happened in this movie is mind-blowing -
(i.e. thinking the secret bank account was a "convenient plot twist", thinking that the D.A. "sucked up to" Abel in the last scene, or better yet that the D.A.'s character didn't develop at all and he was just simply congratulating Abel on his purchase, that Abel&Anna didn't have a certain chemistry just because the actors didn't, etc. etc.) makes me sad.

What a great movie, and how misunderstood. It must have such a low rating because people really don't get what it was about or what happened, and they didn't get it because it was subtle instead of being super obvious about everything. "A Most Violent Year" has people communicating with a nod or a thinly coded sentence, where most movies just say exactly what we're supposed to be seeing. This is truly a film that was made with the golden rule of cinema in mind, "Show, Don't Tell", and truly suffered a loss in its popularity for that reason.

And it's sad that to most people on here, an attempted armed robbery, a little girl playing with + pointing a loaded gun at her own face, a guy being beat up so bad he ends up in the hospital, several truck-jackings, gun chases, another guy being beat up and dumped out of a truck, people chasing each other through the subway / in public concealing guns, a constant feeling of being unsafe in one's home and at work AND A GUY BLOWING HIS OWN %$#@ING HEAD OFF WITH A GUN aren't enough violence to constitute having the title "A Most Violent Year".