This is a film that promises much and delivers very little.It is well acted and photographed but the narrative is always slightly out of focus and remains frustratingly elusive.It doesn't help that it is directed as if this was holy writ coming down from Mt Sinai with a stifling, thudding solemnity.This film needs what it promises in it's title,violence.Not necessarily physical although a real sense of threat would help.The violence of passion,spirit, life .Sadly the script and direction are unable to provide anything so gripping.