A Violent Separation

Here though, directors Kevin and Michael Goetz and screenwriter Michael Arkof have delivered something largely devoid of style or narrative tension, where everyone's fates seem drearily predetermined.

Unfortunately, the themes don't resonate in sufficiently powerful fashion to compensate for the film's sluggish pacing and strained melodramatics.

B-film thriller (more a melodrama).

While the pace slows to a crawl, we're left to sympathize with the moral dilemma facing characters unworthy of our emotional investment.