Tag: Viggo Mortensen
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The Road – A Movie Review
Though The Road opened around Thanksgiving, it just came to my town a few days before Christmas. This, along with the multiple delays and reshoots, gave me great concern that the movie would not live up to the source material. My fears were unfounded. Absolutely bleak and morose, the film perfectly captured the essence of…
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Appaloosa – A Movie Review
This western directed by Ed Harris stars both he and Viggo Mortensen. It also costars Renee Zellweger and Jeremy Irons. I remember aching to get to the theater to see Appaloosa when it came out and really regretting I never made it. So when I finally got around to watching it on DVD, I had…
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Hidalgo – A Movie Review
This movie stars Viggo Mortensen and, well, er, a bunch of people we’ve never heard of. Nonetheless, I really enjoyed this film. It’s about a man and his horse, a Mustang named Hidalgo that he’s partnered with but never tamed. They seem to have an understanding between each other where neither is master, but both…
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A History of Violence – A Movie Review
A History of Violence is one of those rare films where everything, and I mean everything, works. The acting is superb across the board, the plot is absolutely riveting, the direction is excellent. There’s very little I can say about this film without ruining the story for you, but just trust me when I say…
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Eastern Promises – A Movie Review
I really enjoyed Viggo Mortensen in David Cronenberg’s A History of Violence, so when I heard they were teaming up again for Eastern Promises, I had very high expectations. Eastern Promises offers a powerfully subdued yet intense performance by Viggo Mortensen as a Russian driver/enforcer working his way up London’s most notorious Russian crime…
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