What makes you happy ?

Good but not quite very good. I’d not read the back, not read imdb. I just went on Viggo Mortensen, Ed Harris and the stars. There was one incredibly contrived line early on which was completely un-needed and didn’t just set the scene it laid out the entire damn plot – which was annoying.
It said it was based on a graphic novel and I can see that. It probably worked very well as such (must have done I suppose to be translated to a film) but this was more to the shallow end of the film pool. Apart from that one line – and one scene with the son that seemed to exist only for a followup (again a contrivance) – there was nothing actually wrong with it It was 6 quid. Good but not great.

A History of Violence (imdb)