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Title: Not a good followup for Viggo or Cronenberg
Review: Viggo Mortensen is a good actor.Cronenberg is a good director.Both have made hits, both have made misses. This movie I have to file under the latter. What starts out as an intersting story (a silent type gets forced to show what's brooding under his skin), takes a turn for the worst when his actions wake the interest of - how original - the mob. There's a cat and mouse game that simply ends with three dead mobsters, a father/son conflict, a signature sex scene, and... well, Cronenberg is well known for his in-your-face bloodshed, so it isn't unexpected, but the last third of the movie turns it into a turd of a movie, that ends with not even a sizzle. The whole roadtrip ending in carnage and the anticlimactic finale left me with a bad taste.
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