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A History of Violence: Vince Locke
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Based on the graphic novel by John Wagner and Vince Locke, A History of Violence is the tale of Tom Stall. Tom is a loving family man and well-respected citizen of a small Indiana town. But when two savage criminals show up at his diner, Tom is forced to take action and thwart the robbery attempt. Suddenly heralded as a hero who took the courage to stand up to crime, people look up to Tom as a man of high moral regard. But all that media attention has the likes of mobsters showing up at his doorstep, charging that Tom is someone else they've been looking for. Is it a case of mistaken identity or does Tom have a history that no one knows about?
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A History of Violence began as a graphic novel, written by John Wagner and Vince Locke, and the well-built screenplay by Josh Olson reflects the black-and-white speed of the original medium. But much of the movie's richness comes from the way the filmmaker takes detours along the road to the Stall family catastrophe, finding expressions of psychic entropy even in the way the Stalls sit at the breakfast table. A world of change — a fall from innocence — is enacted in two contrasting sex scenes between husband and wife, while some of the best, most powerful moments are those that occur between Tom and his teenage son, Jack (Ashton Holmes, making a terrific feature-film debut), a baffled kid undergoing his own crash course in adult ethics.
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A History of Violence is a gripping, hard-hitting crime thriller, where two young boys misadventures with the mob lead to devastating reprisals twenty years later. A real change of tone from Judge Dredd creator John Wagner, coupled with some scratchy but appropriately grimy black and white artwork from Cannibal Corpse cover-artist Vince Locke. The format is interesting too, abandoning the usual graphic novel size for a thick paperback novel format. Maybe a touch too long, and the boys gung-ho attack on the mob doesn’t really convince, but this is still a good solid dark crime comic.
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As written by creators John Wagner and Vince Locke, A History of Violence is a character-driven tale of redemption. The story involves the owner of a diner, a well-liked, law-abiding family man. When he becomes embroiled in a robbery, the man foils the felons but in the process kills one of their rank.
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