Tijdens een screening van Only God Forgives in Cannes was het publiek niet blij met wat ze zagen. Want deze nieuwe Ryan Gosling (aka Baby Goose) is een revenge film die keihard en grof geweld laat zien, en dat is zo verkeer gevallen dat het publiek boe ging roepen. Hoe erg dit is kan je vanaf 13 juni in de Nederlandse bioscopen bekijken.

"To judge from the boos and whistles after the 'Only God Forgives' screening today, I wouldn't exactly lay odds on a 'Best Director' repeat for Refn," wrote Vulture's Kyle Buchanan.

"When one character stuck his hand inside a woman's slashed body, the audience locked and loaded its boos. Gosling doesn't have much to say in this movie, but the auditorium sure did."

"Movies really don't get much worse than Nicholas Winding Refn's 'Only God Forgives'," [Jeffrey Wells] writes. "It's a sh*t macho fantasy - hyper violent, ethically repulsive, sad, nonsensical, deathly dull, snail-paced, idiotic, possibly woman-hating, visually suffocating, pretentious.

"I realize I sound like Rex Reed on one of his rants, but trust me, please - this is a defecation by an over-praised, over-indulged director who thinks anything he cr*ps out is worthy of your time. I felt violated, sh*t upon, sedated, narcotized, appalled and bored stiff."