A History Of Violence

It's a peaceful life, calm, serene, laid back, nothing out of the ordinary ever happens. Quite dull actually. But then all that changes one dark night when a couple of gun toting criminals decide to rob a diner.
Things change for the worse for all of those concerned when an employee of the diner loses it and fights back.
In a few moments he ends up brutally killing the bad guys, thus becoming a hero himself. And when this unexpected violence comes name and fame and this diner employee becomes an overnight hero.

The fact is he does not want to be a hero, he wants to return to his normal, mundane, routine, boring life, but now that is not going to happen as his fame has grown far and wide and there are people coming to town looking for him mistaking him for someone who has a history of violence.

Is this diner employee a simple accidental hero? Or is he the brutal killer some men are looking for?

With this little act of saving the lives of the guests at his diner the hero has put his own life and that of his family in danger.

This is one hell of a tense film. It's like a Western set in today's times. The plot is quite unique, the acting top notch, the action realistic. Quite gripping actually.
Many, many years before this film was made, there was a Bollywood film called Hum that had a similar basic plot. And there is a fleeting similarity with one of the plot points of Joe Dirt, another super film of which I will talk about later.
Giving away anything more would be giving away the story. This is not in an unknown film, yet it deserves to be seen more often by more people.

A History Of Violence