3/5
Written by Luke Barnes
Summary
A special forces interrogator, played by Danny Dyer, returns back to the country to track down and punish the gangland thugs that murdered his parents.
Dyer is a British national treasure, that simply is a fact.
This film is hard to watch, yet it is impossible to look away from. There is something horrifically fascinating about watching Dyer’s character dispatch all of these troubled youths whilst pulling silly faces, which he does surprisingly often.
Moreover, I thought the army backstory that Dyer’s character has was intriguing and also laughably far fetch. I liked how all of these senior army people seem to think he is some sort of unkillable warrior god. Moreover, the armed response police officers find him just so charming that they just let him go at the end of the film, despite the fact that he could have killed a police officer.
I do think this film revels in its violence a bit too much, perhaps even to an unpleasant degree. Some have labelled this film ‘torture porn’ and there is a good reason for that. I have no issue with some gore, but this film takes it a bit too far an in my opinion enters the realm of bad taste.
Overall, a grizzly film to watch that whilst satisfying at times is also laughable and iffy taste wise.
Pros.
Dyer
Hard to look away from
The ending and how laughable it all is
Cons.
Bad taste
It tries to hard to make Dyer’s character a hero, when he is more likely a psychopath
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