My daughter and her boyfriend saw it last week and were raving about it all weekend. Definitely a 'must see', I reckon!

My son saw it this weekend and also raved about it! He said it was the most violent film he's ever seen (which blimey really is saying something!) but also brilliantly made. For me, although I guess I shouldn't be so closed-minded, anything attached to Mel Gibson tends to put me off. I hear Andrew Garfield is brilliant in it though.

Thank you so much for the review. I'll definitely look out for this movie. I'm in Italy right now (I spend about half a year in Italy and half in the UK) and I think I saw it advertised on TV in one of these film preview programmes. From some of the clips shown it looked pretty violent, but if a film is well made I'm not usually put off by excessive violence, as long as it has significance for the story that is being told and it helps advance the plot, in other words it is not gratuitous and mindless. Like others have said, I'm not one of Mel Gibson's biggest fans; I couldn't disagree more with him on political opinions and social attitudes, and some of his off screen behaviour in the past few years hasn't impressed me at all, to say the least! But I'll try to be open-minded and give him the benefit of the doubt, as regards his creative achievements... Thank you for the recommendation!

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I'm not a big Mel fan either, but it does sound like he's done a good job of telling the story here.