Ryan Gosling teamed up again with director Nicolas Winding to create "Only God Forgives." The pair received rave reviews at Cannes Film Festival in 2011 for their previous collaboration in "Drive." Although, with their latest film it was booed at Cannes Film Festival.
Peter Debruge reviewed the film for Variety, writing, "The wallpaper emotes more than Ryan Gosling does in 'Only God Forgives,' an exercise in supreme style and minimal substance from 'Drive' director Nicolas Winding Refn."
And while at first glance one would assume that this would be the most scathing review of "Only God Forgives," it unfortunately gets worse.
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Jeff Wells of Hollywood Elsewhere writes, "Movies really don't get much worse than Nicholas Winding Refn's 'Only God Forgives.' It's a shit macho fantasy -- hyperviolent, ethically repulsive, sad, nonsensical, deathly dull, snail-paced, idiotic, possibly woman-hating, visually suffocating, pretentious. I realize I sound like Rex Reed on one of his rants, but trust me, please - this is a defecation by an over-praised, over-indulged director who thinks anything he craps out is worthy of your time. I felt violated, shat upon, sedated, narcotized, appalled and bored stiff."
Jeez. Can it get much worse? I guess getting booed at Cannes really was the icing on top of this horrible review cake.
"Only God Forgives" is set in Thailand and focuses on Julian, played by Gosling, a criminal who runs a boxing club in Bangkok. After his brother Billy (Tom Burke) is brutally murdered, Julian seeks revenge and sets his sights on killing his brother's murderer. The murderer, however, is the police captain.
Check out the "Only God Forgives" trailer below!
"Only God Forgives" is out in U.S. theaters on July 19.
Check out Twitter reactions to "Only God Forgives" below!
Setting aside the question of artistic merit, ONLY GOD FORGIVES is absolutely gruesome and prompted a ton of walkouts and a number of boos.
— Scott Feinberg (@ScottFeinberg) May 22, 2013
ONLY GOD FORGIVES at #Cannes2013 confirms DRIVE dir. N.W. Refn's status as world's most sadistic adolescent art director. Truly empty film. — michael phillips (@phillipstribune) May 22, 2013
ONLY GOD FORGIVES is stylized to the point of parody. But it isn't a parody. Not for me.
— Jordan Hoffman (@JHoffman6) May 22, 2013
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