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Worth a watch?

It's a very well crafted piece of cinema that intelligently deals with the idea of detectives chasing down a psychopath. The characters are well defined and well acted, and the plot isn't really 'guessable'. It's Brad Pitt's best movie.

As others have said though, it is definitely a bit gratuitously sickening in places but not in a way that's out of step with the plot of the film. It almost crosses into the horror genre in places (in a Hostel or Saw franchise sort of way). If you're squeamish it's probably best to stay away.

Agreed, great movie. Only thing that I dislike is it does that trope where it makes a waaaaaay bigger deal out of somebody killing the villain than would actually be realistic, almost implying that somehow the protagonist has somehow become as bad as the guy who [REDACTED] his [REDACTED].

Fantastic film. Well worth a watch.

Yeah, it's a pretty good movie.

At least once.

Not unless you enjoy being saddened and disturbed.

Too speculative and too explicit, frankly showing some very horrible things. Not watching again.

There are movies that are worth that one watch, but you'll never watch them again. Schindler's List is one of these.

And then there are movies like A Serbian Filme, where just reading the Wikipedia synopsis[1] is enough to nope the F out.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Serbian_Film

I found this one even more boring than disgusting. And it was pretty disgusting.

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