Only God Forgives

2013

Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller

69
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 41% · 166 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 37% · 25K ratings
IMDb Rating 5.7/10 10 123809 123.8K

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Plot summary

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.

Director

Nicolas Winding Refn Photo
Nicolas Winding Refn

Top cast

Ryan Gosling Photo
Ryan Gosling as Julian
Kristin Scott Thomas Photo
Kristin Scott Thomas as Crystal
Tom Burke Photo
Tom Burke as Billy
Nophand Boonyai Photo
Nophand Boonyai as Charlie Ling
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700.92 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
R
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 30 min
Seeds 7
1.24 GB
1920*1080
English 2.0
R
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 30 min
Seeds 69

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Per Gunnar Jonsson 5 / 10

It is an artistically very interesting movie. I

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.
Reviewed by RustyBoi 8 / 10

A challenging piece of cinema. Definitely not for

A challenging piece of cinema. Definitely not for everyone. The cinematography is breathtaking, and the violence is stomach turning. 8/10
Reviewed by r96sk 7 / 10

It has all the ingredients that I'd usually

It has all the ingredients that I'd usually love in a film, but the pacing lets it down for me. 'Only God Forgives' is pretty dark and strikingly gory, with the stylish cinematography really shining through to set the right tone. Ryan Gosling, meanwhile, is good in a role which is similar to his one in 2011's 'Drive', which was also directed by Nicolas Winding Refn. Kristin Scott Thomas is solid, though I couldn't get away from the thought that her character was made to be portrayed by Toni Collette. Vithaya Pansringarm plays it cool as his character. All in all, I enjoyed it. I just didn't love it. It's a little too stop/start for my liking, as in it felt like I was watching a series of events as opposed to a fully fleshed out plot; I don't mean that the scenes feel unconnected, it just feels like every scene is too much its own thing in terms of storytelling.
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