Vendetta (2014)

Yeah Danny boy you pulled out a showstoppin performance on this one. I would give you a ten for this film because of your performance but have given you an eight cause I know you got more to give us. You kick some serious butt in this film , pure jet lee moves mixed with cockney attitude. I think if they put you head to head with statham you could take him. So the film , quality , Dyer takes on some council estate dropouts and kills them one by one with gruesome techniques he has learnt from the war in Iraq. No one messes with Danny Dyer , no one.You still da man Dyer ... You still da man Danny.

Bless Danny Dyer – he tries his best. After a string of box office flops which make his good films like 'The Football Factory' and 'The Business' seem like they were set in some weird, parallel reality, he's going for a tried and tested formula – namely the 'revenge' film.Danny's his usual cockney self. Only this time he's an ex marine returning home from jail (I did briefly recall why he was locked up, but it doesn't really matter) to find a gang of local hooligans have only gone and roasted his mum and dad alive. And, to make matters worse, the police seem powerless to arrest anyone. Therefore, Danny must take matters into his own hands (or 'ands as he would call them) and deliver his own unique brand of justice.Unfortunately, watching unlikeable characters getting brutally murdered may be mildly entertaining (as we've all see some little thugs defacing a bus stop and wished extreme punishment upon them), but it's hardly unique any more. Ever since Charles Bronson took the law into his own hands there have been countless imitations. Some work okay, others don't. But they all have the same message – namely about how the law doesn't always work and sometimes you have to root for the 'antihero' to get the job done himself. Recently, Michael Caine released 'Harry Brown' and Jodie Foster did 'The Brave One' a few years before that. Both were equally unoriginal, but at least they had more of a budget than Vendetta.It's an okay enough film, but it just doesn't really have anything new contained within. Danny Dyer does his best (as he normally does) to portray a tortured soul, living on the outskirts of society, but, unfortunately, he doesn't quite pull it off. There's a sub-plot about the various police officers assigned to the case (and the area in general), but many of them come across as too uncaring and inept to be believable.If you're a die-hard Dyer fan, you'll probably enjoy this more. However, if you're just a casual fan of revenge movies, you'll have probably seen better than this. It may not be Dyer's finest work, or up to The Football Factory or The Business, but at least it's a step in the right direction.http://thewrongtreemoviereviews.blogspot.co.uk/

What a glorification of vigilantes and of English mercenaries. If you don't like either above, don't bother.The story does catch you for some time, until it starts repeating itself. It's about revenge and that's about it. A lot of stereotypical roles in the film and a quite straight forward plot pattern. The individual performances of the actors being decent though, unfortunately the script is not giving room for the movie to blossom.Oh, also, if you like unique killing methods, the film will provide with some. It is delivered in a Hollywood entertainment mode, but a couple of unique killings there are.

Why would I recommend this film? Well, as much as I enjoy watching American movies, it is sometimes nice to have a rest and see something different. It is nice to see some different scenery, different style and listen to a different accent. Sometimes, it is priceless. It is nice to see a film which is not so much exaggerated, more realistic, without dozens of car explosions, helicopters, driving a car in the opposite direction. It is nice to watch a British, French, German, Scandinavian or any other film every now and then when they make one. The plot of Vendetta is not something original you have not seen before but it is a nice decent and mainly different action film which I have enjoyed watching.