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Viggo Mortensen is a family guy...
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...Whose lip scar suggests a shady past.
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Ed Harris' dastardly defect is classic Cronenberg.
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In "A History of Violence," director David Cronenberg tackles a problem. Problem skin to be precise. Viggo Mortensen plays a family man with a shady past. Cronenberg's camera lingers on Mortensen's lip scar, a visual reminder of those dark days. So when Ed Harris appears as an old enemy, how to make Harris more vicious than Vigg? Just take that scar and Supersize it! So Harris sports seriously sinister scarring, a blind eye, and enough malevolence to make bad guy wannabe Bachelor Bob pack up his goofy grin and head for the hills. Remarkably, Harris' over-the-top prosthetics are mild for a director whose track record includes gore-fests like "The Brood," 1996's "Crash," and "The Fly."
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