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  Review by Will Menaker ★★★★½ 8

  Thus completes Cronenberg's Viggo duology: one about a bad guy pretending to be a good guy, and the other about a good guy pretending to be a bad guy. A Dangerous Method is about horny guys pretending not to be horny.

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  Review by pd187 ★★★½ 9

  trailer on 80s cronenberg tape: HEY GORE-FIENDS! "UHHLRIGHT YOU ZOMBIE ASSHOLES, IM STARTIN TO GET PISSED OFF" STAY TUNED AFTER THE MOVIE FOR SPIIIINE-TINGLING PREVIEWS OF SICK PICKS COMIN ATCHA LIKE 976-EVIL 2, PSYCHO COP! WES CRAVEN'S SHOCKER and CHUD 2, BUD THE CHUD....THEYLL SCARE THE "SHELL" OUTTA YA!!!!!! grreereehhehehehehee!!

  trailer on 2000s cronenberg dvd: From the Producers of... Forgiving the Fireflies and.....The Blossom That Sighed.. comes a tale of secrets, mourning and.. popsicle sticks? in, Clementyne's Pomegranate...."Sometimes being yourself....is your one opportunity.....to be someone else"

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  Review by DirkH ★★★★½ 24

  The naked knife fight in the Sauna will stay with me forever.

  For me this is one of Cronenberg's best. In his double bill of exploring the world of violence, I prefer this one over A History of Violence. It is not often that Cronenberg allows any kind of absolution in his films, but here he does and it works beautifully. It is of course carried by an absolutely stunning performance by Mortensen. Without a central performance like that and fantastic support around him (especially Cassel) a film like this could have turned into nothing more than a generic crime thriller. This is not the case of course as Cronenberg once again shows what a skilled filmmaker he really is.

  I really like Cronenberg the realist, he makes for some fascinating viewing.

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  Review by LunchEnjoyer ★★★★½ 3

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  you see viggo mortenson’s whole penis in this movie. hes fighting guys with his thingy out

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  Review by matt lynch ★★★½

  "Stay alive a little longer." or "For poetic reasons, I suggest you take his blood."

  Here men's lives are written on their skin. Their identity is a history, a tradition that governs a culture. Any violation is meaningful. A woman's life is written on paper you can burn or throw away. Bodies tell stories, bodies are destinies.

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  Review by Erik 🎼 ★★★★ 3

  BUTT ASS NAKED VIGGO MORTENSEN FIGHTING CHECHENS IN A BATHHOUSE I REALLY THINK DAVID CRONENBERG NEEDS TO RELAX

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  Review by Neil Bahadur ★★★★ 1

  Should be completely impersonal, but it's not. Should be a minor work, but it's not. Should be shown in film schools - for students to see how to take on a project completely for hire and make it completely theirs. All the tropes are there somehow - body horror disguised as gory action scene for example - but also families, offices and social networks, how those networks define characters and in reverse how character definition can be completely deceiving. But that's just the surface: if a viewer is aware of the central twist late in the movie (the best films get even better on repeat viewings) the film shifts from being the ultimate modern-noir genre flex to continuing Cronenberg's fascination…

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  Review by Kat ★★★★★ 11

  OK IM DRUNK BUT LSTEN THERE ARE SOME REALLY FUCKIN BAD OPINONS OF THIS MOVIE GOING ROUND ON THIS WEBSITE AND THE WORST IS THAT KIRILL IS THE VILLAIN IF U THINK THAT PELEASE REWATCH THE MOVIE AND LEARN WHAT NUANCE IS GOODNIGHT

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  Review by Erik 🎼 ★★★★½

  david cronenberg turns the camera on and says “Viggo, ACTIVATE.”

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  Review by Florin Scanlon ★★★★★ 8

  "Sentimiental value? I've herd of dat."

  Viggo Mortensen gives one of his best performances and gives life to one of the most enjoyable to watch characters, sporting an incredibly believable Eastern European accent. His Nikolai Luzhin is a serious candidate for the most bad-ass driver in a movie; that's right Gosling, you're done! Nikolai is a very mysterious person who serves as a chauffeur (among other things) for Semyon (Armin Mueller-Stahl), a vor in the London-based Russian mafia. After a young girl, exhausted and injected with heroine, dies while giving birth, midwife Anna (Naomi Watts) takes her diary. This diary leads Anna to a restaurant owned by Semyon, linking the girl's death to the criminal organization.

  If there's one thing…

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  Review by Blain LaMotta ★★★★½ 10

  I've said it once, but I'll say it again: Viggo Mortensen's junk is a national treasure.

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  Review by Brendan Michaels ★★★★½ 15

  "He was like a brother to me. Now, he looks like fucking ice cream."