Just going by the title A Most Violent Year and the fact that it is a mob related movie you would think there's going to be a lot of violence in it. But there is actually not that much of violent scenes. Just enough to make the movie interesting. The story is more about a guy (played by Oscar Isaac) trying to make it in the oil distributing business without doing too much of illegal stuff. It becomes clear that it is not that easy with his truckers being robbed by the concurrence. The story is very easy and pleasing to watch with good actors and nice filming. It's an entertaining crime drama and it was better then I thought it would be. For once it deserves his high ratings on here.