A bitter meditation on violence adapted from John Wagner and Vince Locke's 1997 graphic novel, this chilly thriller may be Canadian director David Cronenberg's least personal and most mainstream film. The age-old question at its core — can a leopard change his spots and, if so, is the newly striped leopard still a leopard? — is parsed with dispassionate brutality that will be familiar to anyone who's seen SPIDER (2002) or CRASH (1996), but may puzzle those expecting a conventional story of crime and revenge. Millbrook, Ind., where mild-mannered family man Tom Stall (Viggo Mortensen) lives his exemplary small-town life, could have sprung full-blown from Norman Rockwel...
Released:
2005
Rated:
NR
Length:
96 mins