| RATING: | 60% |
| FORMAT: | DVD |
Despite the directorially-technical cleverness, this is not as clever a movie as it thinks it is.
The acting is melodramatic and serves up some of the necessary emotional pyrotechnics in detailing the travails of an ordinary man placed in a difficult situation by a robbery that nearly leaves him dead. Yet this is still a rather meagre look at the psychological mechanics of revenge, that merely pits what one could lose from taking the revenge against the pleasure of the revenge, itself.
Not profound enough to genuinely engage our empathy despite the ciné-vérité family shown. The characters are flat and underwritten – especially the chief villain who is nothing more than a cynical, death-dealing cipher.
This film cannot decide whether it is a potboiler or something more serious and so suffers from aesthetic schizophrenia.
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