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Only God Forgives

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5.8/10 • 2.5K

2013-05-301h 30m

DramaThrillerCrime

Time to meet the Devil.

Julian, who runs a Thai boxing club as a front organization for his family's drug smuggling operation, is forced by his mother Crystal to find and kill the individual responsible for his brother's recent death.

Directors
Nicolas Winding Refn
Writters
Nicolas Winding Refn
Editors
Matthew Newman

Top Billed Cast

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  1. Ryan Gosling

    Ryan Gosling

    Julian

  2. Kristin Scott Thomas

    Kristin Scott Thomas

    Crystal

  3. Vithaya Pansringarm

    Vithaya Pansringarm

    Chang

  4. Rhatha Phongam

    Rhatha Phongam

    Mai

  5. Gordon Brown

    Gordon Brown

    Gordon

  6. Tom Burke

    Tom Burke

    Billy

  7. Byron Gibson

    Byron Gibson

    Byron

  8. Sahajak Boonthanakit

    Sahajak Boonthanakit

    Kim

  9. Charlie Ruedpokanon

    Charlie Ruedpokanon

    Daeng

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Per Gunnar Jonsson

Jul 1, 2018

5/10

It is an artistically very interesting movie. I would say that the benefit of watching this movie is entirely from the visuals were it excels. Unfortunately after a while the blood-red and, often, bizarre scenes become a bit boring. The story, well you have it in the movie blurb above. There is not much more to it and it is just used to tie the string of artistic expressions of the director/writer together. This is a quite violent movie. The old cop, Chang, gets more than one opportunity to use various sharp instruments, mostly his sword, on various criminal elements and the effects are frequently shown in all their gory glory. What about the actors and their performance? Well it is quite good for this type of movie but having said that the acting mostly consists of various people silently staring at each other. I had quite a bit of difficulty in deciding what rating I should give this movie. If I would go by the visuals only it should be very high but if I would go by the rest of the content it would be rather low. In the end I decided that although I appreciated the artwork I did not really like the movie as a whole that much. Thus it gets 5 out of 10 stars.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$4,800,000.00
Revenue
$10,300,000.00
Keywords
bangkok, thailandsurrealismpunishmentsuicidalpolice officerneon lightneo-noirdrug traffickerthai boxingemasculationvengeancevibrant