Having seen the movie, I wouldn't necessarily view most of what I'm going to type as a spoiler (most of it's fine, but don't skip to the bottom if you want a pure first-viewing experience).  But looking at it through the eyes of myself a couple days ago, I'd still be ticked if I read this without so much as a warning, so here's the standard spoiler alert.


I enjoyed much of the movie.  The acting is great, the writing and directing are very good...  But I still left the movie feeling kind of ugh.  Took me a while to pinpoint it -- at first, I thought it was the strong attempts to keep the story rooted in our reality EXCEPT FOR THAT ONE THING, but I later figured out that that wasn't it.

My problem with the movie is that the whole thing, from about five minutes in to the end, is a series of escalations on a theme of revenge.  The whole movie is negative.  And it's done well, so when you leave the theatre you feel extremely negative as well.

Once I figured that out and put a name on it, I was able to release the pent-up negativity that the movie had built.  Now I don't feel nearly as bad about it.


OK, this one is spoilerish, so go away now if you don't want to see it:















All in all, it very much is one of those movies that you need to see at least twice to really get it - which is cool and well planned out, except that I feel no compulsion to watch it a second time.  I've got enough negativity in my life - I don't feel the need to add to it.