Tom Stall (Viggo Mortensen) is living a happy and quiet life with his lawyer wife (Maria Bello) and their two children in the small town of Millbrook, Indiana, but one night their idyllic existence is shattered when Tom foils a vicious attempted robbery in his diner. Sensing danger, he takes action and saves his customers and friends in the self-defence killings of two-sought-after criminals. Heralded as a hero, Tom's life is changed overnight, attracting a national media circus, which forces him into the spotlight. Uncomfortable with his new found celebrity, Tom tries to return to the norma... lcy of his ordinary life only to be confronted by a mysterious and threatening man (Ed Harris) who arrives in town believing Tom is the man who's wronged him in the past. As Tom and his family fight back against this case of mistaken identity and struggle to cope with their changed reality, they are forced to confront their relationships and the divisive issues which surface as a result.
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Apart from some effective detail work with classical American cinema archetypes that makes parts of it play like a modern-day Western, A History of Violence is a surprisingly conventional film from the normally more adventurously mind-bending David Cronenberg. A tale of a prototypically normal Middle American family put to the test by crime and a disruption of its very identity, pic is dominated by familiar themes hyped by an extra dash of hot sex and graphic violence. But lack of depth, complexity or strangeness make this a relatively routine entry for the director, indicating moderate B.O. prospects for New Line upon planned Sept. 30 release after fest rounds.
A History of Violence is a ticking time bomb of a movie, a gripping, incendiary, casually subversive piece of work that marries pulp watchability with larger concerns without skipping a beat. It's a tightly controlled film about an out-of-control situation: the predilection for violence in America and how that affects both individuals and the culture as a whole.
It's the gift of Violence, which stars Viggo Mortensen and Maria Bello and features terrific support from Ed Harris and William Hurt, that it manages to do all these things without seeming to make a fuss. That's how strong and compelling its dead-on plot is, and how much command of the medium veter...
David Cronenberg's film opens with two unnamed crooks (McHattie, Bryk) losing themselves in anonymous Midwestern America. They're broke, bored and murderous, casually killing the family that runs a motel where they stay. Cut to family man Tom Stall (Mortensen) telling his young daughter (Hayes), "There's no such thing as monsters." It's clearly untrue, and the rest of Cronenberg's film is spent investigating the lurking monster in humanity. Or to put it in more 'Cronenbergian' terms - if someone is infected with violence, can they ever be cured?
Tom runs a diner in a pleasant small town in Indiana. It's the sort of town where people greet each other on the stree...
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