Joe (Joaquin Phoenix) a war veteran with PTSD tracks down missing girls for a living. His past torments him and he has hallucinations and experiences a distorted sense of reality. He contemplates suicide but doesn't do it, but does practice it with a plastic bag over his head and pulls it away at the last second.Remind me next time a Joaquin Phoenix is in a movie to really check it out before sitting down with it. He seems to revel in the Artsy movies, very slow with constant screen shots of his face. Okay his character is tormented about his past, lives with his mother and uses a ball peen hammer as his weapon of choice when confronting those who harm children. He goes about his business in a very calm manner killing those in his way. The title is so that when he kills someone he cleans everything up like he was never there. His next assignment is to free Senator Votto's (Allexl Manette) daughter Nina (Ekaterina Samsonov) and he does, but there is a twist about all this and you won't like it. This is very slow going and we never know what avenue Joe will go down next and for we in the audience this is somewhat annoying. Joe doesn't talk much. Scenes jump around a lot. All along in this we see flashbacks of his time in the war. Also the music never seems to fit.Notables: Frank Pando as Angel, Joe's first handler; John Doman as John McCleary Joe's second handler; Judith Roberts as Joe's mother.NOW consider that all this is a fantasy that Joe has about everything and nothing is real except in his mind. He was never in the war. He fantasizes about saving Nina who is really his mother, who he very close to, but he is the one who kills her; and in the diner at the end Joe actually does commit suicide and that should have been the last scene, but it wasn't. The very last scene has Nina coming back from the bathroom and says, "let's go as it's a nice day out there. So maybe he didn't commit suicide. See? I don't. So you decide. As for me I will be more careful about Joaquin Phoenix movies. Don't care for Artsy movies as I never really understand them. (5/10)Violence: Yes. Sex: No. Nudity: No. Humor: No. Language: Yes. Rating: C

The only reason I signed up for IMDb was to warn people what a boring, stupid, pointless movie this is!!! Indy movies are the absolute worst!!!

Wow this is one of the worst movies I've ever seen. It's mostly his day to day life - I mean like moment to moment stuff - looking in the refrigerator, riding a cab, talking to his mom, walking around, buying a drink, hanging out in the closet. This is one of the worst movies I've ever seen. And the music is just plain awful and weird. Don't waste your time!

If you are after an adrenaline-infused, white-knuckled action adventure this is NOT the film for you. The violence is quick, intermittent and often distorted in one way or another (SPOILER: In one scene we witness an assault on a building through the lens of security camera). By my estimates only about ten or so minutes of the run time are the sort of violence one might expect to receive entering a film about a hired gun who's known for his brutality. Despite this, the tension built by focusing on Joe's psychological struggle - which is explored in a tactile and often confronting manner - left me feeling like I'd just witnessed torture of a most raw and merciless kind. It was funny because when my mate asked me afterward if I 'enjoyed' the film, I just couldn't say that I did, as much I wanted to. No, this is a film that confronts you and immerses you somewhere you'd prefer not stay too long.