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This movie is quietly tense in a way that will eventually make you want to pause it and go and get some fresh air. The sheer since of total isolation you feel as the characters are stuck out in the middle of nowhere is enough to make your skin crawl, and you begin to understand how people with no connection to a "civilized" world can quickly degenerate into frothing madmen. Which happens. Graphically. It's not an action movie. It's more of a character movie as the characters begin to unravel and you understand why they did what they did, from Guy Pearce's stark, desperate Charlie Burns to Winstone's gruff and fevered Captain Stanley, both of them men who are trying to save something in an uncaring world of chaos. Even though this is definitely a character movie, it's still violent as all hell. I've never actually seen a head explode on screen, and it has a torture scene that makes The Passion of The Christ look like something out of the Teletubbies. It's not for the faint of heart, as you have close-up seats to rape, murder, and torture in ways I had never thought possible before. But it needs this. It needs to show you wanton cruelty so that when the characters finally do take a moral stance, you understand why. The word for this movie is, "intense." 4/5
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