Reviews for this film from our members:
- Marco Albanese @ Stanze di Cinema [Italian]
- Excerpt: Only God Forgives e’ un film respingente, ipnotico, rarefatto, che spinge il nichilismo del suo autore sino all’estremo ed oltre.
- Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
- José Arce @ LaButaca.net [Spanish]
- Chris Barsanti @ Film Racket
- Excerpt: …[a] slow-motion surrealist horrorshow dressed up like an arthouse crime story.
- [New – 2/6/14] | Luke Bonanno @ DVDizzy.com
- Excerpt: Nicolas Winding Refn opts for far more style than substance in Only God Forgives, which renders it a major disappointment following the highly enjoyable Drive.
- Tim Brayton @ Antagony & Ecstasy
- Excerpt: A pointless waste of time and talent.
- Joshua Brunsting @ The CriterionCast
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: a stunningly shot, hyper stylized paean to violence, ugly behavior and lounge singing that may even miss the boat as a cult item. Whatever Winding Refn’s intent was, he’s failed to convey it.
- Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: [A] troubling — and troublesome — but absorbing nightmare in which death, the film implies, is the only way to wake up from it.
- Candice Frederick @ Reel Talk
- Roderick Heath @ This Island Rod
- Excerpt: A strange, discomforting, alternatively hallucinogenically beautiful and deeply ugly work.
- Benjamin Kramer @ The Voracious Filmgoer
- Brent McKnight @ Beyond Hollywood
- Ryan McNeil McNeil @ The Matinee
- Excerpt: Such a dirty movie, in the best way possible.
- Simon Miraudo @ Quickflix
- Darren Mooney @ the m0vie blog
- Excerpt: Wanna fight?
- Jason Pirodsky @ Expats.cz
- Excerpt: A powerful, potent treatise on revenge and violence, and how justice hasn’t been served until we turn it inward unto ourselves.
- Jamie S. Rich @ Oregon Live
- Excerpt: While Refn manages to conjure the same level of dread as Kubrick, he never successfully fosters any mystery. That may very well be because there isn’t any.
- Jerry Roberts @ Armchair Cinema
- Excerpt: A slow, listless neo-noir nightmare, a revenge thriller featuring characters that are either walking toward something or looking off in the distance with a blank expression.
- Tom Santilli @ Examiner.com
- Excerpt: If Refn films are considered a slow burn, consider Only God Forgives an inferno of gory, poetic splendor.
- Jean-François Vandeuren @ Panorama-cinema.com [French]
