adam meyer

Every single actor was at least good in their own rights, but Tom and Robert both had amazing performances in this, which was almost unsettling how well they played their roles. The intensity of the nihilistic views on faith and destiny resonate quite well with the year this film was released and the time period(s) it's set in. This film immediately draws you in on several plots that each develop and tangle together in a spectacular but chaotic fashion that leaves you wonder what the hell happened, and what was the point of the lives of everyone in the story, which is the exact thing this film is trying to do. From lustful priests seducing young girls, to crooked sheriffs, deranged serial killer cuckolds, to a young man who experiences so much death in his life, only to be destined for more in the war to come, or so it's implied. We learn exactly where faith gets you in the real world in this film; bullied, beaten, molested, and at your wits end willimg to sacrifice your own dog, or even wife because of your misplaced faith. But ultimately, the essential two essential mottos of this film ring true; there are alot of bad people in this world, and some people were born just to be buried. I thoroughly enjoyed this dark, gritty, and rather macabre story about a young man with so much bloodshed on his hands, and not because he want to but because some deserve it, and others were simply born to be buried.