| RATING: | 60% |
| FORMAT: | DVD |
Unlike this director’s far superior Get Carter, this movie lacks insight into the nature of revenge and the machismo that so often drives it.
Instead we have here a hypnotic thriller that thrives on its characters, good plotting, top-notch actors and a writer (Trevor Preston) with an ear for convincing dialogue. But, this all fails to deliver much in the way of in-depth characterization.
One really wonders why this film was made since there are far better movies about sin, redemption and the ability to escape from one’s past out there - and this adds not very much to that canon of work. Like the psychological inadequacy it details, the film itself is infected with the same emotional retardation.
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