Originally Posted by
sonatine
If you guys havent seen A Most Violent Year, you're straight fucking up.
Let me say this first; it's totally mis-advertised. Like insanely so. It's a taught, gritty, dark, moody suspense piece and the commercials/advertising all scream GANGSTER CRIME THRILLER at volume 11 which is exactly what it's not. It's very well done. People are comparing it to The Godfather because they lack the imagination to see beyond a broody intense Italian lead in a cashmere coat as anything but derivative, which is simply embarrassing and super typically American. Elements of the ending feel like someone had to appease the studio a little, but that's life. A directors cut might resolve that someday.