Only God Forgives

2013

Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller

64
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 37% · 166 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 37% · 25K ratings
IMDb Rating 5.7/10 10 122164 122.2K

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Plot summary

Julian, who runs a Thai boxing club as a front organization for his family's drug smuggling operation, is forced by his mother Crystal to find and kill the individual responsible for his brother's recent death.

Director

Nicolas Winding Refn Photo
Nicolas Winding Refn

Top cast

Ryan Gosling Photo
Ryan Gosling as Julian
Ron Smoorenburg Photo
Ron Smoorenburg as Muay thai fan
Kristin Scott Thomas Photo
Kristin Scott Thomas as Crystal
Nophand Boonyai Photo
Nophand Boonyai as Charlie Ling
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
700.92 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 30 min
Seeds 8
1.24 GB
1920*1080
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 30 min
Seeds 46

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by TheNeel 6 / 10

Amazing work on a ridiculously bad story,,,

Nicolas Winding Refn's works are different, so you either like them or hate them. Personally I love them. However this film is quite disappointing.The direction, art, music, editing and cast is awesome as always..But the story kills the movie.. Sometimes its too dragged out even for a Refn movie.. pointlessly slow The characters have depth, and the suspense is engaging.. But overall theme is quite ordinary and the script is just bad..So if you can ignore a super slow paced story for almost 90 mins and appreciate everything else in the film you will find this to be a masterpiece.I gave it a 6 because as an overall 'movie' its quite mediocre.
Reviewed by Agent10 7 / 10

Artistic Revenge

I don't understand the general dislike for this film. Yeah, I heard all the reviews and admittedly, the reviews turned me away from the initial release. It didn't help it was only in my town for a week. Either way.... I low key love this film.I love the color palate. I love the pace. I love how it creates a world completely alien to the one I live in. While the story is very basic, it is visceral. You understand how Kristin Scott Thomas commands so much fear. You understand how Julian does not want to be like her. You understand how Chang prefers to work outside the confines of law and order with his own brand of justified punishment. The motives are clear, and while the older brother Billy is way too cartoony evil, we had to quickly establish the central conflict.The thing about such a film is this...where does art end and pretentiousness begin? I think a lot of people interpreted this more for the latter than the former, wanting a dull Tarantino style revenge epic with tons of swearing and pretentious pop culture dialogue. What they got was a neon bathed slow burn, and it worked so much better. In the end, we see why it would happen that way. Chang is brutal and even caustic, but he is fair in the dog eat dog world of the drug dealing underclass. And boy, did that ending seem satisfying.Those who have not seen a lot of film from multiple eras and styles of film making might not get this type of feature, but that is okay. For those who know high concept, low plot type film making, this one is for you.
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