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A History of Violence
The dramatic events in the life of a husband and wife continue in an interesting film. The events begin in the life of a man with a restaurant and live with his family happy and pleasant life, but all this changes when a criminal operation takes place in his restaurant where he defends the restaurant and who is in it but was filmed and became famous and wants to return to His natural life.
20 March 1950, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
11 November 1994, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
30 June 1994, Thornhill, Ontario, Canada
June 23, 2010
A truly entertaining and engrossing study of violence, family, and our pasts eventually coming back to haunt us...
October 02, 2005
A model of clean, lean storytelling.
May 12, 2006
A remarkably convincing examination of heroism, hero worship, and the seductive allure of villainy.
August 16, 2010
While it weakens in its final stretch...A History of Violence succeeds enormously thanks to the strength of its direction and performances.
November 07, 2012
With A History Of Violence, Cronenberg uses the pulp gangster genre - as opposed to, say, sci-fi horror -- to draw us into a dialogue on our relationship as voyeurs to violence, both real and cinematic.
October 04, 2013
A fascinating exercise in cinematic restraint resulting in a captivating, not to be missed film.
April 15, 2013
Cronenberg's direction, mirroring the split in Tom, is alternately measured and frighteningly explosive, and, as always, he gives the movie a nasty underlay of sexual perversity.
April 20, 2011
Without conceding any of his iconoclastic vision, Cronenberg has turned a genre film with classic Western overtones into a gripping psychological drama that examines the duality of man and his infatuation with the art of violence.
April 15, 2013
This peculiarly predictable picture has been calculated, or miscalculated, to set up certain expectations, fulfill them, and then do the same thing again, thereby giving us a chance to see what's coming and, at least in theory, be shocked.
October 07, 2005
The film, based on a graphic novel, has a crackling sense of visual tension.
April 15, 2013
The less you know about this movie before seeing it -- and you really should see it -- the better.
December 10, 2015
Hopefully [it will] encourage a sobering sense of responsibility and a more truthful perspective on identities (individual and national).