there's some clumsiness in the screenplay, but the performances are good; "The Violent Heart" isn't bad at all, but the ending is ridiculous; yet if you think of "The Violent Heart," not as a movie, but as a calling card, it's promising
there's possibility in their chemistry, but the movie has decided their fate before it's begun. "The Violent Heart" is rigged to mislead; Kerem Sanga should have trusted this couple to steer the plot, instead of imprisoning them in it
its ambition... reaffirms Kerem Sanga as a skilled and emotionally sensitive filmmaker who's attuned to the low-frequency wavelengths that tend to get flattened out by stories with this kind of sweep
by Mick LaSalle [San Francisco Chronicle ]
by Leigh Monson [What to Watch ]
