Zoe Hancock

It's an hour since I finished watching this film and I still can't think of anything else: it was brilliant. Phoenix was stunning as a damaged war hero, rescuing an abducted teen, tender with his mother yet very violent with others. The film is not speedy and there is a slow start where you get to know him: it's no John Wick with constant violence. Indeed the violence is often off camera, or in understated but disturbing flash backs. The soundtrack is stunning, an integral part of the experience though the dialogue is, as others have pointed out, sparse. That is no bad thing, no more needed to be said. The film is disturbing and gloomy and not for the faint-hearted, and seems to have confused some viewers. I will recommend it to many of my friends and I will watch it again.