The film quickly shows that it's willing to toy with our expectations, as Deckard walks through the aftermath of what must have been
a rather violent scene — bodies of SWAT members lying dead on the floor, with a few survivors taken out by the grenade - happy baddie.
Not exact matches
Although the few torture
scenes are difficult to watch, they are not gratuitously
violent or excessive, but
rather convey to the audience the conviction and strength of the characters that bear it.
Brilliantly executed, Wong's peculiarly decentered
violent sequences are actually more evocative of the battle
scene in Orson Welles's Chimes at Midnight than they are of Leone's operatic showdowns, especially in the way they concentrate on ephemeral, oblique details
rather than heroic spectacle.
There's plenty of action as Timothy (Jamie Mains) comes out from behind his surly exterior to express his
rather juvenile and fumbly love for Jason's mother, Margerie, played by Janie Dee, followed by a gratuitous and cringeworthy
scene in which they have
violent sex, something Tim then brags about.