Brimstone
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Bill Tangradi as Nathan. Ivy George as Sam. Naomi Battrick as Older Sam. Jack Roth IV as Wolf. Vera Vitali as Sally. Justin Salinger as Doctor. Jack Hollington as Matthew. Adrian Sparks as Eli's Father. Martha Mackintosh as Pregnant Woman.
Joseph Kennedy as Husband. Charlotte Croft as Abigail. Hon Ping Tang as Meng. Sue Maund as Abigail's Mother. Amelie Ha as Chinese Girl. Ian Xu as Chinese Boy. Hong Ping Tang as Meng. Alexandra Guelff as Working Girl 1. Judith Edixhoven as Working Girl 2.
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Joe David Walters as Customer 1. Sid VanOerle as Drunken Miner 1. View All Brimstone News. September 28, Rating: March 17, Rating: March 10, Rating: March 9, Rating: March 9, Full Review…. Aiming to keep this spoiler-free, a brief synopsis is that a new minister Guy Pearce comes to a small Western town, and this puts a mute woman Dakota Fanning on edge, especially after a miscarriage puts her at odds with her fellow townsfolk. One further important detail is that the film is divided into four chapters, and the first three of these unfold in reverse chronological order.
The movie centers around Dakota Fanning and Guy Pearce's characters, and the narrative structure allowed the director to withhold key information until the right time. Of course, like many other films with unique narrative devices, remove it and the film wouldn't be nearly as effective. That being said, there's plenty of stuff that goes on in nearly two and a half hours.
Sure, but all of the narrative elements are good enough to not make this much of a deal-breaker.
Brimstone Review
I will say that the pacing, though slow, was steady and I never got bored. Thematically, Martin Koolhoven the director was able to use the period setting effectively to portray a world of religious coercion and the lengths men will go to justify oppressing women. Guy Pearce's character was basically evil incarnate, and it was a scarily brilliant performance. Dakota Fanning also did well, certainly better than I've seen out of her before.
Kit Harrington also had a small role as a man that Dakota Fanning's character secretly nurses back to health, and who also teaches her a valuable lesson. From the more technical side, I greatly enjoyed the beautiful cinematography, and the haunting score by Tom Holkenborg aka, JunkieXL. All things considered, this is one of the best films I've seen in a while, Western or not.
As long as you're a somewhat patient viewer, and not easily offended, I can highly recommend this.
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Start your free trial. Find showtimes, watch trailers, browse photos, track your Watchlist and rate your favorite movies and TV shows on your phone or tablet! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Full Cast and Crew. Momentum Pictures Release Date: Mystery , Thriller , Western. See All Details and Credits. Empire - Jonathan Pile Sep 25, Brutal in its depictions of violence, Brimstone is tough to watch at times, but never less than gripping, even as the clock creeps up to the minute mark.
CineVue - John Bleasdale Mar 7, Dark, lurid, sadistic and powerful, it is at the least a fascinating and bold debut, and promises better to come. It feels like a sermon delivered by an extremely cine-literate preacher.
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Director Martin Koolhoven shows the heaviest of hands in approaching the story. Screen International - Lee Marshall Mar 7, For all the visceral depictions of hatred and violence and human destruction, it feels as if the director is chasing his own tail and forgetting about making it all mean something.
Slant Magazine - Carson Lund Mar 7, Its bid for social correctness does nothing to make the juvenile and numbing fixation on brutality any more palatable. CoKronakan Oct 3, I liked the fact that the movie was separated in to multiple acts, and that they were not in chronological order.
Brimstone review – Dakota Fanning in blood-and-thunder western that pulls no punches
It gave the movie a realistic vibe, and let on exactly just as much as the audience needed to know, not more. But in contrast with this, lies the big issue. The worst pacing I liked the fact that the movie was separated in to multiple acts, and that they were not in chronological order.
The worst pacing issue Iv'e seen in a long time. Because irrelevant scenes take to much, and the real action happened to fast. At least it wasn't try harding, it wasn't forcing, because the actors could deliver the feelings they where supposed to. So great job by the actors, and the director taking the greatest angles for the shots he needed to deliver the feeling to the big screen.
The movie had this dark western vibe, the unfairness and the muddy, ugly part of it. The movie itself is not entertaining or fun to watch, it's hard most of the time. But I think this is the way it was supposed to be, so I can't discredit the movie here. But because the plot was that simplified focused only on one protagonist it also lacked a life lesson.
View All Audience Reviews. By Metascore By Userscore. Eli tells his son Matthew to take the family up into the mountains to Eli's father, before the boy shoots him. Archived from the original on 7 October Fanning is in fine form as a woman who can't vocalize her emotions, though it's Pearce here who steals the show. Get a list of the best movie and TV titles recently added and coming Mixed or average reviews based on 17 Critics.