Only God Forgives
That story took place in Thailand, where Ryan Gosling appears to be carrying out a powerful and dangerous mission to take revenge on his brother. That story began when he was sent by his mother (Christine Scott Thomas) on a mission to avenge his older brother, who was killed by a fatal blow to death.
19 May 1983, Bangkok, Thailand
30 April 1974, Nieuwegein, Utrecht, Netherlands
24 May 1960, Redruth, Cornwall, England, UK
30 June 1981, Kent, England, UK
12 November 1980, London, Ontario, Canada
April 17, 2015
Only God Forgives is an extremely misunderstood film.
April 08, 2014
Even as their shadows fall across these walls, the characters are not supermen; they're humans reduced to chiaroscuro. Characterization is even more minimal.
May 11, 2016
That it is superficial is a given. It's clear that Refn's plan is to drug us into transcendence, into the eerie plains of his Norse parable Valhalla Rising. He wants this film to levitate, but it doesn't.
July 22, 2013
Refn's nerve is admirable, even if his film often borders on unwatchable.
June 19, 2016
'Only God Forgives' is a mess, an overly stylized and brutally violent mood piece with something to alienate everyone. It's also absolutely worth seeing.
July 19, 2013
The most objectionable thing about Only God Forgives isn't that it's shocking or immoral, but that it's so finally, fatally dull.
July 30, 2013
Style over substance doesn't really tell the half of it: you can bathe a corpse in groovy light and dress it in an expensive suit, but in the end that rotting smell just won't go away.
April 15, 2016
That the pacing is glacial hardly matters - at least for the first hour or so - because Larry Smith's cinematography is so breathtaking.
July 23, 2013
This is one of the most shocking and one of the best movies of the year.
July 14, 2016
This is more a horror film than a martial arts extravaganza.
August 01, 2013
Ryan Gosling and his "Drive" director, Nicolas Winding Refn, sail into the heart of darkness and emerge with a trinket of crackpot porno kitsch.
