I've been a fan of David Cronenberg for a long time, and last night I made it to a showing of his latest, A History of Violence. This movie rocks! The tale of a small-town diner owner who may or may not be a former mobster is simple but really effective. Viggo Mortenson is fantastic as the lead, as is Maria Bello, who plays his character's wife. Ed Harris is a mob heavy, and William Hurt, who doesn't show up 'til almost the end, is brilliant.
The complexity of inner story is here like it was in Spider, but the pace of this one moves a lot faster than that movie. There are one or two gory bits (as you might expect from Cronenberg) but this is in no way a horror film like some of his past efforts. And this thing was based off a graphic novel, who would have guessed?
This one's going in the collection when it come out on DVD.